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The seventh generation of home video game consoles began on November 22, 2005, with the release of Microsoft 's Xbox 360 home console. This was followed by the release of Sony 's PlayStation 3 on November 17, 2006, and Nintendo 's Wii on November 19, 2006. Each new console introduced new technologies. The Xbox 360 offered games rendered ...
Microsoft Movies & TV (US only), [3] [4] or Microsoft Films & TV (Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand), [5] [6] previously Xbox Video and Zune Video, is a digital video service developed by Microsoft that offers full HD movies and TV shows available for rental or purchase in the Video Store as well as an app where users can watch and manage videos from their personal digital ...
High-definition video ( HD video) is video of higher resolution and quality than standard-definition. While there is no standardized meaning for high-definition, generally any video image with considerably more than 480 vertical scan lines (North America) or 576 vertical lines (Europe) is considered high-definition. [citation needed] 480 scan ...
The XGPU. GPU and system chipset: 233 MHz "NV2A" ASIC. Co-developed by Microsoft and Nvidia and essentially a variant of Geforce 3 chips. Geometry engine: 115 million vertices per second, 125 million particles per second (peak) 4 pixel pipelines with 2 texture units each. Peak fillrate :
The next Xbox in line after the Xbox 360, commonly dubbed "Xbox 720," will undoubtedly be a gaming powerhouse. But new reports from U.K.-based gaming magazine Xbox World and CVG claim that the new ...
On October 16, 2012, Xbox Video and Xbox Music were released, replacing the Zune Marketplace. Xbox Video is a digital video service on that offers full HD movies and TV series for purchase or rental on Xbox 360, Windows 8, Windows RT PCs and tablets, and Windows Phones. [188]
A big question that lingered over the launch of this generation's consoles was that of backwards compatibility. With their chests puffed huge, showing off PlayStation 3 hardware that was still ...
576p is the shorthand name for a video display resolution. The p stands for progressive scan, i.e. non- interlaced, the 576 for a vertical resolution of 576 pixels (the frame rate can be given explicitly after the letter). [ 1][ 2] Usually it corresponds to a digital video mode with a 4:3 anamorphic resolution of 720x576 and a frame rate of 25 ...