Originally published December 18 2005
Xbox 360 does more than play video games
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The new Xbox 360 can rip music and customize soundtracks in games, connect to portable devices, re-charge your portable device and connect to any Windows PC, plus it has all major DVR capabilities and more.
To paraphrase a famous literary passage: In the beginning, there was a console system with a large controller and an even larger hard disk drive, and the people did rip upon the drive a vast flood of music, manipulating the great analog joysticks and oddly placed buttons, and waiting for long ages while the audio transferred from disc to disk drive thus enabling the use of custom soundtracks in precious gaming titles that supported this bold new technology.
It was so good, in fact, that Microsoft decided to make the media surrounding the games and gaming culture as important to the Xbox 360 as the games themselves.
The Xbox 360 takes media control out of the hands of game developers and puts it squarely under your control.
All of the media features are integrated into the system at a core level, which means that you can always access your own music and play games with your own soundtracks, regardless of whether or not the game developers have decided to support those features.
The Xbox 360 also connects to portable devices, ranging from external hard drives to a wide variety of MP3 players, including iPods.
With a free level of Xbox Live included with every Xbox 360, even more Xbox owners will be creating a home network and connecting their console to it for online gaming.
The side-effect of this is that gamers can install Windows Media Connect on their home PCs and give the Xbox 360 access to any folders they have decided to share.
Most Windows PC owners have Windows Media Player installed, which is half of the installation here.
That might mean your My Music and My Pictures, or, if you color outside the lines, possibly the creatively named "MP3", as is visible in our screenshot.
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