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I happened to be in front of the tube for the MTV launch of the XBox 360.
It was a pretty lame show. Rappers seem to give everything street cred right now but it still seems wrong when a tattooed street hood and MS geek give each other a complicated street handshake and and say ‘wassup my brother’.
The online marketplace contained in the console looked for virtual commerce with real money.
The launch is a high stakes game. Good analysis of the MS MTV launch move on news.com.
XBox 360 is HiDef and will spur HiDef adoption. HiDef TV is awesome. Watched a RedSox Mariners baseball game last night. The quality is spectacular even on a 5 year old rear projection TV. We’d flick back to normal TV and “my eyes, my eyes. I can’t watch that.”
And in the US the various set top TV systems just work. HD recording, online guides etc. It’s really convenient and changes your TV experience by you controlling your TV time rather than the broadcasters. Significant.
Great time in Boston. Lot’s of business here. On to London.
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