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- Aug 5, 2002
The Console
The console is physical large. Its bigger than the 360 width wise, and height wise. I believe its pretty close to the same depth though. Its a vary heavy beast, and can see that MS didn't cut itself short on probably making the unit staying cool and quiet. Solid construction, seems to have very good airflow on the unit and its quiet. The disk drive is a little noisy but its only running when you are installing the game, otherwise it is off. Doesn't even spin that I notice after installation. A big fan is venting at a very low speed out the top. Couple side vents I'm guessing is sucking air into the system. Nice overall, will have to figure out a way to place it with the rest of my gear since I don't want anything on top of it, and sitting on my X360 right now won't cut it when I want to play with that.
Now for Kinect. The unit as a whole its heavy. The sensor alone has to be 2 lbs + its cable. In a relatively dim room and picked me up no issues being in the room. The sensor was offset on the TV as right now have from left to right; Xbox One Kinect / Xbox 360 Kinect / Wii Sensor Bar, and the Xbox 360's is center of the screen. Had no issues picking me up on a dark couch nice and relaxed. Even with just the TV for light and some stair lights (not near me but did add some light in the room) it still picked me up on the couch without any issues. So it doesn't have the problem it did before with being in a dark room, which is great. Do I think it should of been included with the console, well that's debatable right now, so far its limited in use but did find that can be used in a few games so we'll see.
The controller, seems odd at first. Just the way it is vs the previous controllers for the last 2 consoles. Just slight differences that throw you off. Overall very comfortable to hold, nice not having the big bulge on the bottom for the batteries that its actually built into the physical body. The fixes to the D-Pad is wonderful and the sticks feel more responsive and not as hard to push down, which is an added plus. The triggers, are interesting. So use to the X360 or even the PS controllers with how the triggers act that it does have a more rounded feel and doesn't dig into the fingers when playing games, specifically racing ones when your on the accelerator nearly all the time. The feed back system in the controller is really cool as well, gives more of a feel in the game. Guess we'll wait and see how it does on battery life. Was surprised it actually included 2 name branded batteries with it... shocked.
Can't comment on the HDMI in as haven't used it yet. I don't have a cable box that you would use for it so it really has a very limited use for me. Nice in the aspect that if you do have one you don't have to have 2 HDMI ports chewed up by the two devices and that it can share just 1 port. Or if your lacking HDMI ports you can share it, just a nice added piece.
The OS - Sorry lacking stuff here right now, not sure what to really touch yet. More to be added over time.
Seems very similar to the X360 in most respects. Menu's, the pin system, how its all laid out. Its very smooth and responsive, its nice to jump out and back in games quickly without exiting them. Really nice added feature on that.
App wise, not many apps for the console yet. Just did some quick installs of basic ones, Skype, Netflix, Vudu, Skydrive, etc. Waiting on hopefully some others to come out or seeing what some of the other few apps (only saw maybe 20 or so right now) actually do. Maybe I'm blind and didn't see more of them, with limited time haven't had much to look into this area yet. I know I have to play with the DVR Game Clip system... some reason I couldn't edit anything last night so have to wait and see hopefully its working tonight.
The auto log in feature with Kinect seeing me, haven't tried it since really im the only one on the console, no biggy if someone else tries to use it. Might hook my daughter up with it eventually when some kid games come out. I also haven't tried to turn on the console with it yet, even if I have it setup that way.
Split screen function, well only works with Skype and if you have HDMI pass through if not mistaken currently. I'll be looking into that a little more. Really be nice if MS allowed google to put hangouts on this as that is what I use and majority of the family if we want to video chat. Skype is nice because its already tied into the system and MS in the aspects for gaming at least.
Update 1:
Wanted to add tried out Skype tonight on it. Flawless. Worked great was easy to setup and showed very decent video on it. Camera is 1080p, quality I'm guessing was closer to 720p ish but voice was crystal clear. As well the camera tracks you around the room so if your talking it will zoom in on the area where you are. Pretty slick setup. Happy it worked good, and might be looking forward to this working within games via split screen maybe? We'll see.
The console is physical large. Its bigger than the 360 width wise, and height wise. I believe its pretty close to the same depth though. Its a vary heavy beast, and can see that MS didn't cut itself short on probably making the unit staying cool and quiet. Solid construction, seems to have very good airflow on the unit and its quiet. The disk drive is a little noisy but its only running when you are installing the game, otherwise it is off. Doesn't even spin that I notice after installation. A big fan is venting at a very low speed out the top. Couple side vents I'm guessing is sucking air into the system. Nice overall, will have to figure out a way to place it with the rest of my gear since I don't want anything on top of it, and sitting on my X360 right now won't cut it when I want to play with that.
Now for Kinect. The unit as a whole its heavy. The sensor alone has to be 2 lbs + its cable. In a relatively dim room and picked me up no issues being in the room. The sensor was offset on the TV as right now have from left to right; Xbox One Kinect / Xbox 360 Kinect / Wii Sensor Bar, and the Xbox 360's is center of the screen. Had no issues picking me up on a dark couch nice and relaxed. Even with just the TV for light and some stair lights (not near me but did add some light in the room) it still picked me up on the couch without any issues. So it doesn't have the problem it did before with being in a dark room, which is great. Do I think it should of been included with the console, well that's debatable right now, so far its limited in use but did find that can be used in a few games so we'll see.
The controller, seems odd at first. Just the way it is vs the previous controllers for the last 2 consoles. Just slight differences that throw you off. Overall very comfortable to hold, nice not having the big bulge on the bottom for the batteries that its actually built into the physical body. The fixes to the D-Pad is wonderful and the sticks feel more responsive and not as hard to push down, which is an added plus. The triggers, are interesting. So use to the X360 or even the PS controllers with how the triggers act that it does have a more rounded feel and doesn't dig into the fingers when playing games, specifically racing ones when your on the accelerator nearly all the time. The feed back system in the controller is really cool as well, gives more of a feel in the game. Guess we'll wait and see how it does on battery life. Was surprised it actually included 2 name branded batteries with it... shocked.
Can't comment on the HDMI in as haven't used it yet. I don't have a cable box that you would use for it so it really has a very limited use for me. Nice in the aspect that if you do have one you don't have to have 2 HDMI ports chewed up by the two devices and that it can share just 1 port. Or if your lacking HDMI ports you can share it, just a nice added piece.
The OS - Sorry lacking stuff here right now, not sure what to really touch yet. More to be added over time.
Seems very similar to the X360 in most respects. Menu's, the pin system, how its all laid out. Its very smooth and responsive, its nice to jump out and back in games quickly without exiting them. Really nice added feature on that.
App wise, not many apps for the console yet. Just did some quick installs of basic ones, Skype, Netflix, Vudu, Skydrive, etc. Waiting on hopefully some others to come out or seeing what some of the other few apps (only saw maybe 20 or so right now) actually do. Maybe I'm blind and didn't see more of them, with limited time haven't had much to look into this area yet. I know I have to play with the DVR Game Clip system... some reason I couldn't edit anything last night so have to wait and see hopefully its working tonight.
The auto log in feature with Kinect seeing me, haven't tried it since really im the only one on the console, no biggy if someone else tries to use it. Might hook my daughter up with it eventually when some kid games come out. I also haven't tried to turn on the console with it yet, even if I have it setup that way.
Split screen function, well only works with Skype and if you have HDMI pass through if not mistaken currently. I'll be looking into that a little more. Really be nice if MS allowed google to put hangouts on this as that is what I use and majority of the family if we want to video chat. Skype is nice because its already tied into the system and MS in the aspects for gaming at least.
Update 1:
Wanted to add tried out Skype tonight on it. Flawless. Worked great was easy to setup and showed very decent video on it. Camera is 1080p, quality I'm guessing was closer to 720p ish but voice was crystal clear. As well the camera tracks you around the room so if your talking it will zoom in on the area where you are. Pretty slick setup. Happy it worked good, and might be looking forward to this working within games via split screen maybe? We'll see.
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