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Plug and play. Depending on how long the unit has been in the box in a store somewhere you may need to update the codec on it. Plug in internet cable and it should detect straight away. takes 2 minutes.

No bother at all with external HD

I was looking at this...apparently it needs to be it format flat32 and mine already is, so should be ok. Excellent!
Thanks.

(My external harddrive is in operation every day and I've a ridiculous amount of memory on the laptop!- only 40gb, about 17gb left!)

What you got to remember is you can't download from XBox live to an external drive or run games(full/demos) from it. You can play non drm content through the external which is fine for music and video (provided its supported).

If for example you buy the 2 downloadable GTA4 games, your probably taking close to 7 gig. Now if I've already payed 15 quid each for them so I'm not going to delete them. I think this model will become more popular in the current financial climate, the game engine is there on the original game you purchased so why not release updates/new games through XBox live. The lower distribution costs/ability to control piracy ect .... is very appealing to the game studios at the moment.

The 60 gig version is good value though but I wouldn't consider the smaller one.

try <input type=button name=generate value="Generate a Winner!" onClick="setTimeout('RandomName(this.form)', 5000)">

I think your calling the timer after you do the random name generation, plus not sure why your passing the value of the form into your random generator function

had a quick look, should the nameform.txtname.value=ranname[r] not be within quotes/single quotes as its an expression?

Aye, I've been reading a few websites there and my choice is between the 60gb one and the elite.

Now, I'm leaning towards the 60gb one. 
I gather that the only differences between the 60gb and the elite is the memory and the cable. 
I don't have a HD Tv yet so I don't need the cable yet, and am I right in thinking when I do get the HD TV I can just buy the cable?
I don't really understand why you'd need 120gb worth of memory on a console, any downloading I do is on the computer and from what I can gather I'll be able to stream any films or that, on the computer, through the xbox to watch on the telly?  So I really don't need that extra memory. 

Loading the games on to the xbox would be handy though, how much space would one game take up? 
Is it really as noisey as everyone says?
Isn't the 50 quid price tag on the wireless thing ridiculous!

Anyways, I think I'll go for the 60gb one.

Definitely go for the 60gig minimum though (think its the same price as the 20gig now) - I've at least 20gig worth of downloadable games on my hard drive, including the new GTA4 add-on (basically a full new game and can only be downloaded) and loads of classic games. All this stuff is available through XBox live and trust me you will end up filling up a hard drive very quickly, plus upgrading a hard drive later is costly. MS and game studios will start distributing more and more content through XBox live, especially after the success of the new GTA.

It's just under 5 gig to load a game - you still need to insert the disc though just to prevent piracy. Its not overly loud but I prefer playing from the hard drive as it runs cooler and I want to make sure I don't get the 3 red lights. You won't have the 3 reds issue "probably" as you will get one of the new spec machines which run cooler anyway.

Yeah I agree the wireless is a rip off, but again if you don't need it, you don't have to pay for it.

Thanks bigfella

Unfortunately it doesn't help with my problem

Probably need to see the rest of your code in order to work out what is going on

Try this -

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/timers

see new DS out in April - think its called DSI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Mcne5xHK4

I wouldn't get it, the DSi is now region locked and it stops you using the memory cards. Thats Nintendo's main driver for the upgrade of the hardware.

I'm sick waiting on the price of the PS3 to come down, thinking of taking the plunge towards the xbox, what's the difference between the premium one and the elite, is it just the memory?

and I take it everyone here would recommend it over the ps3?

Memory and Elite includes a HDMI cable also, I think.

I personally would go for the bigger hard drive, especially with an increase in downloadable content and HD movies. I also prefer to install my games on the hard drive too (Final Fantasy XIII is rumored to be multiple discs too - so i'd much prefer to add it to the hard drive) as it runs quieter.

IMHO it's a better buy than the PS3 and I have both. I hardly switch on the PS3 compared to the XBox and XBox live is so much better a product than PSNetwork, people will always pay for a better product. Graphics wise there is no real difference, well none that some of the Sony fan boys on here would be able to notice and the so called "Sony Cell super processor" and the Xbox processor are both designed by IBM and based on the same initial processing core. In fact quite a few of games look better on the xbox and run at higher resolution.
If its a games system you want, the superior catalogue of games on the XBox makes it the logical choice. If you want a blu ray player too, then possibly consider the PS3 but it is rumored that sony will be releasing a PS3 without blu ray in order to drop the price and thus compete with MS and Nintendo. There are also very few games companies developing games exclusively for blu ray due to the increased licensing costs, development costs ect... Personally in the current financial climate games studios will be reluctant to develop titles to exclusively take advantage of this feature, especially when it's not needed (downloadable content is the future).

You used to be able to play games from memory sticks, depending on the version of the firmware you have. Problem is Sony keep updating it as soon as it gets hacked or games get released that are incompatible with older hacked firmware version.

I was brain-rotted twice last night but it was option e: out and poleaxed, in a  completely different country and paying roaming changes to listen to the nonsense 

Mario Galaxy is one game everyone must buy if they own a Wii and the  only Wii game I have ever spent alot of time playing - one of only 6 games to ever get 10 out of 10 in Edge.

http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/edge-review-super-mario-galaxy

I got COD 4 Game Of The Year edition last week, what is the difference in it and the ordinary game?

You get the online map expansion pack for free. If you had the original you had to download it at an extra cost.

Oh right, i have already started playing the actual game, when i put in the code does it lenghten the game or is it only for online play?

It's for online, allows you to play four extra maps in team deathmatch ect.... I think they are Broadcast, Creek, Chinatown and Killhouse(not available in team deathmatch).

Creek is a completely new map, complete bas**** when you start from the bottom of the map. The team starting on the high ground always wins.

I got COD 4 Game Of The Year edition last week, what is the difference in it and the ordinary game?

You get the online map expansion pack for free. If you had the original you had to download it at an extra cost.

Can these channels not get their facts straight before they reports these figures as there may be family of the passengers watching Sky News etc.

It's not really the channels that get these facts but news agencies that sell them the channels news ie. Reuters. As more/latest details emerge the agencies sell them off to the highest bidders first, so thats why you get inconsistencies between stories. 

Gmail is annoying as fcuk.

I'm getting emails for years that arent meant for me as it doesnt recognise dots in the name and obviously because I registered first, they are all coming to me.

For example. wherefromreferee@gmail.com (not my real name) is the same as where.from.referee@gmail.com

Some of the emails that are meant for the other 'me' are clearly important.  Visa and Paypal and work stuff.

Don't use it that often as a result of this

Strange it recognises full stops/dots in mine.

I think gmail does normalisation of the local parts(username) of the address though, so it means wherefromreferee@gmail.com is seen as being the same as where.from.referee@gmail.com. Strange that someone has been able to register a similar email.