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Video Games : Xbox Official DVD Movie Playback Controller
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Xbox Official DVD Movie Playback Controller from: Microsoft List Price: £19.99 Price: £15.99 You Save: £4.00 (20%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Video Game Brand: Microsoft EAN: 0659556682842 Label: Microsoft Manufacturer: Microsoft Manufacturer Maximum Age: 18 years Manufacturer Minimum Age: 36 months Number Of Items: 1 Platform: Xbox Publisher: Microsoft Release Date: March 14, 2002 Studio: Microsoft Sales Rank: 7062 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Got an Xbox? Do you enjoy watching DVDs? Then you need one of these. This DVD playback kit unlocks the DVD functionality of Microsoft's powerful Xbox and helps make the console an even more important addition to your home entertainment system. This remote features large keys that feel rubbery yet firm. The kit sports some of the basic functions you'd expect from a common controller, including chapter skip, play, pause, and number buttons. There's also handy 32x fast-forward and reverse controls. Pressing the display button calls up a friendly onscreen menu that allows access to more features, including up to 10x magnification, A-B playback loop (for cueing and viewing favourite scenes repeatedly), and subtitle and audio options. It's worth noting that many lower-cost DVD remotes have access to such features through the press of a button. The fact that this one requires you to use a menu to access such common commands may rankle DVD aficionados, as the menu is a bit slower than using buttons. Still, the menu is quite intuitive and couldn't be much easier to use. For the remote to work, you'll need to plug the included infrared receiver into an open controller port on the Xbox. Most gamers will never need to unplug the receiver again, as you can plug it into the rarely used fourth port. Interestingly, the receiver works best when the remote is operated almost directly in front of it, and can be a little finicky when signals are sent from the far left or right. The couch potato crowd won't be thrilled to learn that the remote does not include power or eject buttons. Why such standard features were omitted escapes us, but that is far and away the worst thing we can say about an otherwise decent control. --Mark Brooks Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Cheaper than a Universal All-For-One remote.I think the reason this item has a poor rating compared to other peripherals is that people are buying it to use with an unmodified XBOX which has a DVD lockout as standard. Even when buying this kit, your XBOX is locked to the region it was made for and this is completely unsatisfactory. I haven't even bothered to use the stock software that plugging in the infrared device to port 4 unlocks. I bought the remote and wireless adaptor because I use XBMC and it has region-free DVD support, plus my XBOX has a large harddrive filled with good-quality copies of the movies and shows I have bought in the past. Contrary to the Amazon assessment the remote actually has a decent reception range and angle, only failing to work if many objects ... Read More: Rating: - Handy For Those One Off Occasions!This is a very handy little piece of device, which can help you out on a couple of occasions! Obviously it is mainly used for DVD purpose, but you can actually also use it to move and make selections in the XBox Main Menu system which is ideal for me as sometimes I use the XBox to listen to music while I wrap up Birthday/Christmas Gifts and clean my bedroom and I think to myself "Why Do I Have To Keep On Reaching For That Controller All The Time When I Can Use This DVD Remote!" A advantage with the remote as well is that it just requires 2 AAA Batteries which can last for a long time, and it is wireless with built in Infrared technology! My Grade For This Device: 8/10: Enjoyable, Fair-Play, Thumbs Up My Wish: ... Read More: Rating:  - Buy it!To the review about how Bill Gates gets so rich: By creating and selling Microsoft products such as Windows? Duuuuuuh! This product works fine, stop complaining about it costing so much! Buy it used for only about a fiver and quit your yapping! Rating:  - Grr...Everyone else is right... Microsoft are just trying to milk it even further... It's no surprise to see that this little gadget costs an extra £20... How do you think Bill Gates has got so rich? Rating: - does the job wellThe unit itself is pretty good, and it picks up the signal from the remote from a good distance. The handset is large, but well in character with the xbox itself. The IR unit has to be plugged into one of the four controller slots, which is fine if you don't have three mates playing games on it often. The xbox itself plays dvd's fairly well, certainly better than most mid-range DVD players in themselves, but to really get the most, you need to get a better connection that the standard scart and use s-video. Sadly that costs you more money. Personally, if I had a DVD player before buying xbox, I would not bother buying it - but the dvd kit makes your xbox into a perfectly acceptable DVD player with no hassles and is ... Read More: |
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