Romier S 5,041 Posted January 25 Report Share Posted January 25 jubjub75 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brandon H 293 Posted January 25 Report Share Posted January 25 That’s great. Now add Dolby Vision playback for 4k discs! JoeyN 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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JoeyN 1,297 Posted February 1 Report Share Posted February 1 If anyone still needs a Series X or PS5 Keep an eye on New Egg Shuffle at https://www.newegg.com/product-shuffle . They do random drawings for people to be able to buy hard to get items like the new AMD processors, graphic cards, etc. A few times Series X and PS5 have shown up. Carlucci and kelley 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Angry the Clown 4,229 Posted February 3 Report Share Posted February 3 I'm seeing more and more alerts for re-stock in the UK lately which is good news. I mentioned it in the PS5 thread but I'm aiming for a late summer/autumn purchase once I clear more from my PS4 backlog, and I'm building up reward points from every day shopping that will ultimately allow me to knock £200 off the price of the console so it'll be a win win for me if I wait it out for another six months (at which point stock should be plentiful anyway). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Carlucci 705 Posted February 3 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 3 Series X acquired! My son's friend bought one, never opened it, and decided he didn't want the expense at this time. He sold it to me at retail price, plus tax. I'll set 'er up and give it a try this afternoon. Still trying to lock down one of those pesky "job" thingy's that are all the rage these days. Carlos. kelley, Angry the Clown, AlbertA and 8 others 6 2 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Carlucci 705 Posted February 4 Report Share Posted February 4 Big Fuck YEAH to Microsoft for finally figuring out how to shed the big power brick. The use of the dime-a-dozen power cord is going to make this unit portable around my house. 1080P on the media room PJ, 4K in my downstairs room. Downloading my brains out right now. I'll probably wait until the weekend to give it a decent spin. Carlos. foogledricks, Brandon H and Romier S 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AlbertA 703 Posted February 4 Report Share Posted February 4 2 hours ago, Carlucci said: Big Fuck YEAH to Microsoft for finally figuring out how to shed the big power brick. The use of the dime-a-dozen power cord is going to make this unit portable around my house. 1080P on the media room PJ, 4K in my downstairs room. Downloading my brains out right now. I'll probably wait until the weekend to give it a decent spin. Carlos. They figured it out on the one X BTW Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Carlucci 705 Posted February 4 Report Share Posted February 4 8 minutes ago, AlbertA said: They figured it out on the one X BTW I wouldn't know because I was still limping along with my Day One XBone. This is going to be like a night and day difference now. Carlos. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iainl 687 Posted February 4 Report Share Posted February 4 Yeah, One S and One X both have internal power supplies; I think my Series X is using the same figure-8 cord that belonged to the One S that moved out of the way for it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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kelley 818 Posted February 4 Report Share Posted February 4 I'm not surprised that the number is so big. I just hope for MS's sake that the number doesn't keep getting bigger between now and middle of the year when they claim to get better flow of units. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JoeyN 1,297 Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 Series X and S are on the new egg shuffle today @kelley Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kelley 818 Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 4 minutes ago, JoeyN said: Series X and S are on the new egg shuffle today @kelley Thanks for the heads up, I'm registered for it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kelley 818 Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 Well I didn't win the shuffle today. JFo 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brandon H 293 Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 So, my Series X is suddenly having some storage issues. It doesn't seem to be able to write anything to the external ssd, even though it can read what's there. I get an “installation stopped” message whenever I try to move anything to the drive or install something there. And, installed games have just gone missing from my games list. So far, it doesn’t seem catastrophic — games are still attached to my account (or available on disc) even if they are not showing as installed, but still, very frustrating. A hard reset did not fix the problem. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Romier S 5,041 Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 3 hours ago, Brandon H said: So, my Series X is suddenly having some storage issues. It doesn't seem to be able to write anything to the external ssd, even though it can read what's there. I get an “installation stopped” message whenever I try to move anything to the drive or install something there. And, installed games have just gone missing from my games list. So far, it doesn’t seem catastrophic — games are still attached to my account (or available on disc) even if they are not showing as installed, but still, very frustrating. A hard reset did not fix the problem. This is the Seagate external “official” drive? I’ve found that if it’s not seated properly, it acts goofy as shit. I installed a few games into it, rebooted the system and it said it couldn’t find those games. I had to reseat the drive and it’s worked fine since. Not sure if you’ve tried that. Brandon H 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brandon H 293 Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 Unfortunately, it’s an external SSD attached via USB 3.1 using a Sabrent adapter. I am thinking this is an OS issue. It seems like the games that disappeared are games that I had installed off physical media. I’m going to pop one of those games in the drive and see what happens... The whole OS needs better storage management. Why can’t I select the “official” Seagate expansion drive as the default installation spot for all Series X games? Instead, it forces me to install to the interval drive and then move it. (Yes, I can select the Seagate drive as the default installation spot for EVERYTHING, but then I waste valuable storage space on the ultrafast drives for One/360 games. So convoluted.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JoeyN 1,297 Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 @Brandon Hthat sounds like the issue i had when i first got the X. I had to reinstall the games Brandon H 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JoeyN 1,297 Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 @kelleyseries x Is in the shuffle again Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Romier S 5,041 Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 3 hours ago, Brandon H said: Unfortunately, it’s an external SSD attached via USB 3.1 using a Sabrent adapter. I am thinking this is an OS issue. It seems like the games that disappeared are games that I had installed off physical media. I’m going to pop one of those games in the drive and see what happens... The whole OS needs better storage management. Why can’t I select the “official” Seagate expansion drive as the default installation spot for all Series X games? Instead, it forces me to install to the interval drive and then move it. (Yes, I can select the Seagate drive as the default installation spot for EVERYTHING, but then I waste valuable storage space on the ultrafast drives for One/360 games. So convoluted.) You get this on both consoles. I love the PS5 option to “install all PS4 games to external storage” and wish the X had similar options for 360/OG Xbox titles while the PS5 lacks the ability to move PS5 games to cold storage on an external drive. Simple UI shit like this shouldn’t be this hard for either of these companies. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kelley 818 Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 3 hours ago, JoeyN said: @kelleyseries x Is in the shuffle again I lost again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brandon H 293 Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 And now, My son can't play online or access games even though his machine is set as my home Xbox. Damn it, Microsoft, I am losing my temper with your mess today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Angry the Clown 4,229 Posted February 9 Report Share Posted February 9 Useful video: Xbox seemingly lacks 24fps support for media playback, though you will rarely see discs encoded at a straight 24 (as noted in the video, it's primarily something Studio Canal here in Europe do more than any other distributor, but if you're overseas and you import any of their discs then it's worth taking note of). The Apple TV box lacks 24fps support as well and it's really irritating as I have some stuff in my library that's clearly 24fps and not 23.98 and consequently triggers frame dropping (curiously one such title for me is a Warner/New Line purchase on iTunes). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kelley 818 Posted February 9 Report Share Posted February 9 5 hours ago, Angry the Clown said: Useful video: Xbox seemingly lacks 24fps support for media playback, though you will rarely see discs encoded at a straight 24 (as noted in the video, it's primarily something Studio Canal here in Europe do more than any other distributor, but if you're overseas and you import any of their discs then it's worth taking note of). The Apple TV box lacks 24fps support as well and it's really irritating as I have some stuff in my library that's clearly 24fps and not 23.98 and consequently triggers frame dropping (curiously one such title for me is a Warner/New Line purchase on iTunes). The next OS release for AppleTV adds 24fps. Angry the Clown 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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