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XBOX Live

XBox Live

Xbox Live is Microsoft's multiplayer gaming service that is available to Xbox players for a subscription fee. Introduced in 2002, numerous Xbox games are Xbox Live enabled. See video game console and MMOG.According to Virgin Media and Microsoft today Xbox Live high definition movie downloads should take between 15 minutes and half an hour to download by the end of the year on some broadband services. A spokesman for Virgin Media has informed us that the company’s 50MB broadband service will be made available to over nine millions homes by the end of 2008 which is over 70 per cent of Virgin Media’s entire network. Xbox Live subscribers can download five top blockbuster movies from 100 MS points, which equates to around 85p. Most of the movies currently available on Xbox Live can be viewed in both standard and high-definition formats.

XBOX 360

Introduced in late 2005, the Xbox 360 dramatically increased the Xbox's gaming power with a three-core 64-bit PowerPC CPU from IBM, each core running at 3.2 GHz. Its ATI graphics card more than quadrupled rendering speed, and wireless networking was also added. An HD DVD drive is also an option. Changing from a white to a black case, the "Elite" model, introduced in 2007, added HDTV connectors, wireless capability and increased the hard disk from 20GB to 120GB.

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XBOX

A video game console from Microsoft that was designed to compete with Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's GameCube. Introduced in 2001 with a 733 MHz Pentium III CPU, 5x DVD drive and custom-designed graphics processor, the Xbox also includes four game controller ports, Ethernet networking and Internet connectivity