News & Rumors: Xbox One (codename Durango)

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loekf said:
Oh dear:



Rule #1 in TV land: never ever apply the same upscaling filter over UI stuff as your video. UI stuff has sharp edges, so any sharpening makes it look worse (high freqs appear even more -> halos etc).

As far as I can remember, XB1 has this video compositioning block with up to 3 layers. Guess they were targeting OS, HDMI in and game. They should have allowed for static video menus, huds etc. as a seperate video layer, rendered at 1080p, then compose it with your upscaled in-game video. However, can imagine that was not a good idea, because you keep your game at a lower resolution than 1080p due bandwidth issues at the first place, so a seperate stream/buffer for menus/hud etc. doesn't fit the budget.

Now, why would you add sharpening on graphics / video in the first place ... about the blacklevels could it be to save BW and resources the scaling is done on subsampled YUV ?
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I don't really see the problem, I'd say most Xbox fans love halo :p

Ontopic: maybe the UI-layer could be in a lower color format, to save bandwidth and framebuffer space. That way you can still have enough budget.
 
Steve Dave Part Deux said:
I think it's time to stop dragging garbage from GAF in here.
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Ok, the hatred and disdain for SonyGAF is fairly well understood.

However, does the post make sense? Does the image look different (better/subjective?) if set to 720p? Or is it BS? I have not bought the Xbox One yet so I can't test it to see what happens.
 
Of course it looks better without a friggin' sharpen filter on top.

The more important issue is, can we get MS to turn the filter off so that the users don't have to switch resolutions depending on what game they want to play?
 
Laa-Yosh said:
Of course it looks better without a friggin' sharpen filter on top.
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Hey sorry, relax a little bit.



Laa-Yosh said:
The more important issue is, can we get MS to turn the filter off so that the users don't have to switch resolutions depending on what game they want to play?
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I hope so. I don't think they should force any such filter.

Doubt we will ever hear why, but still: Why did they do this???
 
Voice control has a success rate greater than 9/10 for me. It even understands me with a mouth full of food most of the time. My apartment is very quiet, so that probably helps. Even in a quiet apartment, I can't hear the console at all. It's pretty much silent.

I think I have everything set up well. Was pretty straightforward. Just guide the menus(start) button to bring up the settings options. Need to find the remote code for my receiver, but I've got the tv control working.

I want to mount Kinect on top of my tv instead of underneath. It'll give a better camera angle for Skype. I did discover that you can't snap Skype, which is kind of weird.

Played a bit of the Battlefield 4 campaign while it was installing. Looks pretty nice. My tv should be calibrated reasonably well. I did try the calibration tool beforehand, and I didn't have much success with it. Not sure what that's about. I couldn't get the sun symbol to disappear on the contrast adjustment. Not sure what the deal is. I'm using some calibration settings from that hdtv buyers guide site.
 
BeyondTed said:
Ok, the hatred and disdain for SonyGAF is fairly well understood.

However, does the post make sense? Does the image look different (better/subjective?) if set to 720p? Or is it BS? I have not bought the Xbox One yet so I can't test it to see what happens.
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Apparently not since that would have provided an answer to your second question. There's too many variables involved to reliably determine the authenticity or accuracy of the images. All we know for sure is where the data originated. Might as well be a Obamacare op-ed on the Fox News website.
 
Scott_Arm said:
I did discover that you can't snap Skype, which is kind of weird.
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Supposedly, this is coming, it just isn't in yet.

Edit: Also, there doesn't seem to be a direct way to see your download queue, but if you go into My Games and Apps, it'll show you which app/game is currently downloading and it's progress, and also which apps/games are queued to download on the tiles for those Games and Apps (but not the order they're queued in).
 
-tkf- said:
Yes, you can post videos of people dying, getting kicked in the head and beat while laying down and with everyone in the video saying nothing but fuck fuck... But anyone nude, and then it's removed.

So he posted a video with him being completely nude?

Sony and Microsoft is going show us the weakness very fast with their good clean family entertainment..

And banning him from the other services is simply wrong, I hope they fix that.
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Seconded.
 
It seems that the console can identify your pets! (thanks mcmothercruncher for the pic)

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Actually the Kinect recognises pets very accurately. :smile2: The curious thing about that is that it doesn't seem to be an isolated fact. It happens everytime.

It is very likely that Microsoft are planning something for pets. Or is it just me?

Not only that, but Kinect can detect and recognise different breeds of dogs in a very accurate manner.

A Xbox Live friend said that he who has two dogs (a Labrador retriever and a pug) and the console detects both very precisely and in great detail! :smile2:

And then as you can see in the picture above, this also happens with cats. Perhaps it isn't an isolated coincidence, and it makes me wonder if they have something planned for pets.
 
Cyan said:
It seems that the console can identify your pets! (thanks mcmothercruncher for the pic)


Actually the Kinect recognises pets very accurately. :smile2: The curious thing about that is that it doesn't seem to be an isolated fact. It happens everytime.

It is very likely that Microsoft are planning something for pets. Or is it just me?

Not only that, but Kinect can detect and recognise different breeds of dogs in a very accurate manner.

A Xbox Live friend said that he who has two dogs (a Labrador retriever and a pug) and the console detects both very precisely and in great detail! :smile2:

And then as you can see in the picture above, this also happens with cats. Perhaps it isn't an isolated coincidence, and it makes me wonder if they have something planned for pets.
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I hope these people are trying to make accounts for their pets. I would do it.
 
Cyan said:
It seems that the console can identify your pets! (thanks mcmothercruncher for the pic)

Actually the Kinect recognises pets very accurately. :smile2: The curious thing about that is that it doesn't seem to be an isolated fact. It happens everytime.

It is very likely that Microsoft are planning something for pets. Or is it just me?

Not only that, but Kinect can detect and recognise different breeds of dogs in a very accurate manner.

A Xbox Live friend said that he who has two dogs (a Labrador retriever and a pug) and the console detects both very precisely and in great detail! :smile2:

And then as you can see in the picture above, this also happens with cats. Perhaps it isn't an isolated coincidence, and it makes me wonder if they have something planned for pets.
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Ha ha ha...lol!

Now I need kinect as well...if they add streaming, you could watch your pets from work all day :)
 
Anyone see good kinect mounts? I don't see any accessories for that yet. I put mine below my tv, but my stand is kind of short, so the camera angle for kinect if I wanted to skype is not very good. It would look a lot better from the top of the tv.
 
Scott_Arm said:
Anyone see good kinect mounts? I don't see any accessories for that yet. I put mine below my tv, but my stand is kind of short, so the camera angle for kinect if I wanted to skype is not very good. It would look a lot better from the top of the tv.
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If you look at the bottom of your Kinect V.2 it is threaded to accept mounting to standard Camera holders. Tested with some of my Camera tripods and works perfectly. I imagine it could probably work with CCTV video camera mounts as well, it looks like they use similar threading.

If there is something that is designed to hold a camera on top of a TV you could just use that.

Regards,
SB
 
Cyan said:
It seems that the console can identify your pets!
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Haha that's pretty cool.

Anyway I have a great idea for MS which I hope they will pursue if they haven't already...add a motion detection "security" app with remote viewing from the internet. Basically turn it into an internet camera for monitoring anytime the authorized user wants to and/or when motion is detected notify me on my cellphone. Maybe even start recording the motion detected activity.:cool:
 
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