XBox 360

The latest Xbox 360 is blazing fast, and packed with new features. The wireless controller offers the ultimate mobility for hard core gaming. The Xbox 360 has High Definition graphics that will cause your games to really come to life!

The Xbox can be purchased as either a Core System, or the Premium System. The Premium System adds a 20GB detachable hard drive, High Definition AV cables, and an Ethernet cable.

Both include the Xbox 360 console, wired controller, detachable faceplate, Xbox Live Silver membership, and standard AV cables.

• 3 core processors at 3.2 GHz each
• Custom ATI Graphics processor at 500 MHZ. Xbox 360 can take advantage of more than four times as many polygons as the original Xbox® console, and more than four times the number of pixels per second.
• 512 MB RAM that all of the hardware components (like the CPU and GPU) can access.
• Games are required to be authored for 720p and 1080i (High Definition graphics). All games are optimized for the 16:9 widescreen viewing ration, so the picture spans ALL of your HD bigscreen!!! While not as good, you'll still get awesome graphics on your non-HD equipment.
• 20 GB detachable hard drive to rip more music and play your own music as a soundtrack to any Xbox game.
• The Xbox 360 utilizes 48 parallel shader pipelines in the GPU that developers can optimize to get the performance they want.
• Plays DVDs and supports CDs, DVD-ROMs, DVD-R/RW, MP3s, JPEGs, and more.
• Xbox Live®, the premier console online gaming service with more than two million members, is getting even better, with a huge new center of online commerce called Xbox Live Marketplace, and best of all, Xbox 360 is always online with your high-speed Internet connection.
• Xbox Live Silver, available to anyone with an Xbox 360 or Xbox 360 Core System console, a hard drive or a memory unit, and a broadband connection, provides many free features, including messaging and downloads. The second level of service—Xbox Live Gold, with the option to play multiplayer games online—costs the same as your original Xbox Live subscription.
• Xbox 360 has three multi-purpose USB ports (two in front, one in back). You can connect and stream media from a wide range of portable music players and digital cameras, or stream your digital music, photos, and more from your connected PC with Microsoft Windows XP or Windows XP Media Center 2005 Edition.
• You can connect up to four lightweight wireless controllers instantly with no other peripherals needed. The controller use a cycling signal that avoids other wireless hardware in your house (such as telephones), there is never any delay between your thumb and the game. With the Play & Charge Kit, you not only have a rechargeable controller battery, but a charge cable that actually recharges your battery pack while you're playing, or while Xbox 360 is in standby mode.

• Xbox 360 with the hard drive is backward-compatible with original Xbox titles too, which means both original and Xbox 360 gamers will be able to play in the same matches online with Xbox Live.

• Xbox Gamer Guide: The Xbox Gamer Guide is an entertainment gateway that instantly connects you to your games, friends, music, movies, and downloadable content. Available at a touch of the Xbox Guide Button, the Xbox Gamer Guide gives you instant access to the experiences and content you want, from the gamer card of the player that just invited you to play online to new downloadable content for the game currently running.

 

To add Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound to your Xbox experience, check out the
Pioneer HTS-GS1 5.1-Channel Surround Sound System for the Xbox 360