Xbox 360 For Dummies
Chapter One
The Media Blade
In This Chapter
* Watching DVDs on your Xbox 360
* Playing music from your iPod
* Viewing pictures from your PC
You walk in the door, pull your MP3 player from your pocket, hook it up
to your stereo, and fire up some tunes. After fixing a snack, you unwrap
that great new CD you just bought and rip it onto a hard drive - but just
when you start listening, your buddy shows up with photos from his trip. You
hook up his camera so he can show you, on your TV, where he got that tan.
Looking at pictures gets old, so you fire up Project Gotham 3, toss your friend
a controller, and pick your new CD as the game soundtrack. When you finish
kicking your friend's butt up and down the race course, you put in a DVD and
watch a movie.
The Xbox supports many features that aren't directly related to games. Most
of these features take advantage of the fact that the Xbox 360 is hooked up to
a TV in your family room. This chapter shows you how to tap into music,
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