ZOMG. So much memory.
As many have already heard, Microsoft is going to ban the use of unauthorized memory cards with the release of the upcoming Dashboard update. This update will introduce some features such as Twitter, Facebook and LastFM support amongst some other useless addons that will keep me from playing games and instead lurking on Twitter.
I can understand the general panic about this change as even myself have had some issues with save game backups and the lack of readily available official memory units. I have opted not to use any unauthorized hardware and have simply abandoned my old save games that were on my RRoDed Xbox 360.
I can deal with it. At least it gives me a good reason to play all these wonderful games again. What worried me most, though was whether I would be able to still plug in a regular HDD to watch movies.
Good news, then. People in the update preview program have already reported that hacked USB HDDs are still working after the update. To me this means that regular USB drives are still accepted by the Xbox and I can still watch my movies. I hate streaming.
TLDR?
USB HDDs still work after the new XBL update that will ban all unauthorized storage devices.
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I became a streaming fan. Since that article about the ban of unauthorized memory cards I panicked because i thought that the good times with watching movies are over. At least with the harddrives. So tried my luck with Windows Media Center which is pretty easy to setup, but it does not support .avi .divx etc. being played over the Xbox. On the PC it works fine. You need to convert your .avi files into a supported format like WMV. I am seriously not willing to convert all my movies into WMV. Thats a pain in the Ass. Panic!!! So i am calling a friend to discuss this and he reminds me of a program for the Xbox that can stream any codec to the XBOX It’s called Tversity. A really easy to set up piece of software which is even for free. I wasn’t the biggest fan of streaming either, but this Media Server Software is makes things pretty convenient. The only con point is that you have to turn on the PC/Media Server while watching.