Editing Article: XBOX 360 Un-Official Features. (section)

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2 types of Xbox Live:


Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)
Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)

Features for Gold service

Also for Silver *

Also for Offline #


- Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360

- Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) *
- Free Xbox Live weekends *

- Multiplayer online gameplay

- Avatar for gamer profile * #

- Motto for gamer profile * #

- Personalized look for Xbox System Guide * #

- Offline achievments * #

- Online achievements *

- Access to other players' Gamer cards via Live *

- Cumulative gamer score * #

- Location/ language profile * #

- Reputation *

- Enahnced matchmaking using above

- Skill level matchmaking

- Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)

- Recent players list *

- Free and premium download game content *

- Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv *

- Downloadable demos/trailers *

- Microtransactio ns *

- Custom playlist in every game * #

- Play music from portable devices * #

- View images from digital camera * #

- Strem media from Windows XP * #

- Interactive screen savers * #

- Track info for CDs * #

- Communication with voice, video or text *

360 HW:

1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD

2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing

3. Customizable face plates to change appearance

4. 3 USB 2.0 ports

5. Support for 4 wireless controllers

6. Detachable 20GB drive

7. Wi-Fi ready

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU

- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each

- 2 hardware threads per core

- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core

- 1 MB L2 cache


CPU Game Math Performance

- 9 billion dots per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor

- 500 MNz

- 10 MB embedded DRAM

- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines

- unified shader architecture


Memory

-512 MB GDDR3 RAM

- 700 MNz DDR


Memory Bandwidth

- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth

- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM

- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus


Audio

- Mulitchannel surround sond output

- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio

- 320 independent decompression channels

- 32 bit processing

- 256+ audio channels


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