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Originally Posted by Defiant
Yea but there idea's for this home entertainment system are surly fraud if they are only using flash memory?
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Maybe they've changed their minds about XBox2 being a complete home entertainment centre?
They already have XP Media Centre out there, so perhaps want to concentrate on pushing that (& later Longhorn?) to take centre stage in the living room?
(or maybe....two XBox2s....one without HDD for just games etc, & another more expensive one with a HDD & other features for home entertainment...that's one thing I've seen people wonder about)
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Originally Posted by chambece
That's what I thought, but how about this for an idea - Put the games on DVD-RAM Disks - all gaves saves and downloads can then be stored on disk!!
And of course you then have your home entertainment system too....
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Writable discs (& the ability for the console to write to them) could mean more chance of hacking & piracy though.
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Originally Posted by Ramrod
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IGN had a story on that:
http://xbox.ign.com/articles/504/504...html?fromint=1
It seems that although the Patent has just been granted, it was actually *filed* in March 2001....suggesting it's actually for XBox1.
The Patent
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United States Patent 6,716,102
Whitten , et al. April 6, 2004
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Method and apparatus for displaying information regarding stored data in a gaming system
Abstract
A gaming system includes a hard disk drive for storing applications and other data. The hard disk drive has multiple storage areas for storing different types of data. Each application executed on the gaming system has an associated data storage area and is prevented from using data storage areas associated with other applications. When saving a game, the saved game data may include a descriptive name of the saved game, a graphic representation of the state of the game when the game was saved, a description of the game state when the game was saved, and a date and time that the game was saved.
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Inventors: Whitten; Jon Marcus Randall (Sammamish, WA); Pirich; Christopher M. (Seattle, WA)
Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)
Appl. No.: 802798
Filed: March 9, 2001 [/url]
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Hopefully M$ will announce something about XBox2 soon, & end the speculation.