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Poor DVD PLayback on 360 Published by eltsha on Thursday, February 01, 2007
We love the Xbox 360, we really do. The games are great, the Xbox Live service just can't be beat, Live Arcade games and the Video Marketplace are pretty cool, and—we never thought we would say this—at $400 it's actually cheaper than its main competitor. As great as we think the 360 is, we're not above pointing out some of its flaws. We already discussed the horrible noise the system makes when reading game discs at full 12X DVD speed, and even tried to mod our 360 to make it quieter. That operation was partly successful, but I'm afraid there's nothing we can really do about the problem we'll discuss today.
Frankly, the Xbox 360 is a terrible DVD player. Yeah, we know it's primarily a game console. We know DVD movie playback is essentially a "free" feature. But it is a feature nonetheless, and an important one. After all, many of our TVs only have so many inputs, and we only have so much room for boxes in our TV cabinets or stands. If you have an Xbox 360, you have no reason to believe that you shouldn't be able to use it as your primary DVD player. Except that you can't, because it's awful. Honestly, we have seen sub-$100 DVD players and PC graphics cards perform better than this. Don't believe us? Think the 360 plays back DVDs "fine?" We've got proof!
Click the link below for the full article
News Source: www.extremetech.com
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