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XBox 360, PS3 or Wii? ( ESPN on 360 for TWC)

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You officially have a reason to watch ESPN on your Xbox 360 come this fall?ESPN 2.0 is pretty goddamn awesome. Watch multiple games in HD. Pause one while keeping the other going. Stats! So many stats. And oh lord, the mini-guide with live thumbs and scores.

Confession: The only sport I give even the slightest shit about is college football. Fortunately for me, ESPN on Xbox 360 is re-launching August 25 with college football in mind.
It's still going to be showing ESPN3?so, highlights and whatever live games ESPN3 will carry?but presenting it in a dramatically reinvented fashion (the whole Xbox Avatar stadium thing has been blow away, so it feels more like real TV). For starters, you'll be able to watch two games simultaneously in 720p HD, and control them independently using a remote or Kinect voice controls. So you can pause one to focus on other, or watch replays on one side while the other game keeps playing, or however you wanna mix and match two independent games. (You could bring up the same game twice, using one screen for replays while keeping up with the game in real-time in the other.)

The way you'll find what you wanna watch is radically improved. The new mini guide shows a strip of thumbnails along the bottom half of the screen, with live score and game info laid on top of the tile, so it's not only guide to what's on, it's a guide to what's happening. There's also a live scoreboard that'll run vertically down the right side of the screen?when it launches it'll just be college football, but obviously it'll expand over time.

While there've been other attempts to let you watch tons of games and keep up with all kinds of scores simultaneously, our resident sports fanatic Casey "Bloody Toaster" Chan says, "They suck. This doesn't look sucky." The only thing really missing from the new Xbox ESPN? More ESPN?the stuff beyond just ESPN3.

I'm still pretty psyched for this interface, particularly the mini-guide, to spread to other Xbox features, particularly as Xbox moves more and more into showing live TV. The current stuff Xbox is doing is fine, but this is both super polished and super useful.
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Go here for a video demonstration.
 
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Finally, TWC subscribers can access ESPN on their 360:

http://broadband.espn.go.com/espn3/auth/microsoft/initAuth?mvpd=twc

The code worked for me, though when browsing it says unable to play content. Please try later.

Tried again this morning, I can now see more of the content (none of the archived replays were online, just highlights), but still can't play them.
 
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The New ESPN on Xbox 360 Is the Only Way I Want to Watch Sports Now
You officially have a reason to watch ESPN on your Xbox 360 come this fall—ESPN 2.0 is pretty goddamn awesome. Watch multiple games in HD. Pause one while keeping the other going. Stats! So many stats. And oh lord, the mini-guide with live thumbs and scores.

Confession: The only sport I give even the slightest shit about is college football. Fortunately for me, ESPN on Xbox 360 is re-launching August 25 with college football in mind.
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It's still going to be showing ESPN3—so, highlights and whatever live games ESPN3 will carry—but presenting it in a dramatically reinvented fashion (the whole Xbox Avatar stadium thing has been blow away, so it feels more like real TV). For starters, you'll be able to watch two games simultaneously in 720p HD, and control them independently using a remote or Kinect voice controls. So you can pause one to focus on other, or watch replays on one side while the other game keeps playing, or however you wanna mix and match two independent games.
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No. besides getting a repaired product, amazon often has a better deal.

Gamestop charges tax bringing your total to about 162 plus gas.

Amazon sells it new for 200, no tax, and regularly runs promotions with 50 $ credits. I works bet another one is around the corner for college kids headed back to campus . They had two different ones in april for the 4 gb, and had one in july for the 250gb

Plus amazon would make a 15 dollar donation to bp for the referral. The % fluctuates, but that is a good estimate.
 
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Just tried out the new ESPN feature on the 360 and it's quite impressive. You can select favorite teams and view their content. So far I'm impressed. I watched a little bit of the LLWS and couldn't tell the difference from DirectTV and what was on the 360.
 
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So the Time Warner WILL work now? Are we sure? It told me that I didn's have access... and there wasn't a menu to enter it anywhere... What do I need to do?



Just realized I wasted my 1000th post on such a non-fantastic post... oh well.
 
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Well... I answered my own question.... I have Time Warner internet service but Directv tv..... Time Warner now gives you access to the ESPN content ONLY if you are a TV and internet subscriber.....
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I have both. Where do I go to gain access? Note I haven't tried it today, if something just changed.
 
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http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3334076

So just booted up my Xbox 360 to play Gears of War 3 for the 1st time. I noticed on the Spotlight tab on the dashboard it says Gears of War 3 Now In Stores. I clicked it and it took me to a page where there is Gears of War 3, Inside Xbox on Gears 3, and More from Epic Games. On the tab Gears of War 3 if you scroll 5 or 6 tiles over there is an option that states Your Xbox Live Gold Subscription is about to expire. Act now and save. Get 12 months for $39.99. Well I just renewed 3-4 months with this same dashboard offer and my renewal date is every July 1st so I was already set until July 1st 2012. I am now set until July 1st 2013. So I am thinking this offer should be available to all Gold subscribers. Please let me know if you have the same luck
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I was looking to start my Xbox live back up again and my deal was 15 months for $60.
 
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I was looking to start my Xbox live back up again and my deal was 15 months for $60.
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and as that thread indicated, unless you're desperate, this isn't a very good deal.

35-40 / yr deals are pretty common, and this puts you on auto renew, which can sometimes be a hassle to remove.
 
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