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iXboxLive is like Live Anywhere for the iPhone
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Don't let Microsoft's tardiness in bringing its Live Anywhere initiative to market stop you from enjoying Xbox Live anywhere: if you've got an iPhone and $0.99 you can try out Nicholas Pike's iXboxLive app which "uses the Microsoft Xbox Community Developer SDK" to bring much of the functionality of your friend's list to your iPhone.

Sure, you could always load up your iPhone's browser (just like you do for Halo stats) and hop on Xbox.com but then you'd miss out on the slick iPhone formatting. However, use the app and you'll miss out on functionality like messaging, thanks to limitations in the aforementioned SDK. Now we're not expecting the cats at Microsoft to suddenly develop an official iPhone app, but we'd settle for something on Windows Mobile ... heck, we'd settle for a Zune app!
 
Can anyone answer me this.

I have my xbox live account setup for myself.

but my son and daughter also play the 360, can we all use my sucbscription to xbox live from the same xbox?

Surely the xblox live subscription is per xbox, not per account on the xbox?

Cheers
Shooto
 
Live Silver accounts are free but of course they're only good for downloading demos and game updates, if they want to play multiplayer games on Live they need a gold account.
 
Wasn't there an announcement earlier that silver accounts can play multiplayer games now?
 
60GB Xbox 360 in UK for £199, August 15

The 60GB Xbox 360 will be available in the UK beginning August 15 for £199 ($380), with the new console replacing the discontinued 20GB at the same price. The sans hard drive Arcade currently retails for £159 and the 120GB Elite goes for £259.

The 60GB model went on sale in North America a couple weeks ago for $349 after it was originally announced the console wouldn't arrive until early August. The 20GB model also received a price drop to $299 in the region. Although we don't know about Europe, if you're looking to finally get an Xbox 360 this year, it might be worth waiting to see how those September price cut rumors play out.
 
Nope, only the Elite comes with an HDMI cable afaik, and they only cost a 3 or 4 quid online anyhow.
 
Well thank you Mr.Chris. I asked this because after my broken 360 has been replaced with a new one, now I have an HD slot (hdmi?) which I didn't have on my broken one.
 
HDMI cables are all the same, the shorter the better, the official one is like 35 quid in shops, and the Sony HDMI was expensive too, till everyone realised it was a con and they stopped making them.
 
HDMI cables are all the same because of the technology, signal breakdown doesn't occur unless the length of the cable is insanely long, whereas VGA is old technology and the longer the cable (and the crappier the shielding) the worse the picture quality is.
 
its because HDMI is digital, ones and zeros, either you get the singal or not, I would think if an HDMI cord is too long, you just wont get a picture, not degradation..
 
Chris Bauer said:
HDMI cables are all the same because of the technology, signal breakdown doesn't occur unless the length of the cable is insanely long, whereas VGA is old technology and the longer the cable (and the crappier the shielding) the worse the picture quality is.
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gomito#10 said:
its because HDMI is digital, ones and zeros, either you get the singal or not, I would think if an HDMI cord is too long, you just wont get a picture, not degradation..
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Ah right, cheers guys.
 
Yep, no need to spend more than £15 on an HDMI cable. It's disgraceful when you see Comet and Curries trying to shift them for £50-60 to poor unsuspecting customers.
 
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