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...plug in a camera to get a slideshow? I plugged an Olympus E-Volt E-500 full of shots directly into the Xbox, and got a high-definition slideshow better than any I would see from a burned CD in a DVD player or any other less competent media reader. It's impressive...
...problem with viewing pictures on the Xbox is that when you connect it over your home network to a PC full of family pictures (using free Windows Media Connect software available at Microsoft.com), the Xbox tosses the organization structure of your pics out the window. In my own My Pictures folder, there's a folder for each year, subdivided within with each photographic event. The Xbox lists all photos within your My Pictures folder, but without the hierarchy, so collections of pics from 2001 were listed confusingly alongside those from...
...high definition" is the Xbox 360, really? Truth is, it's totally high-def. If you have an HD TV set, you can see photos and other content (games, etc.) at the sharpest resolution possible. I was happy that it included wires to connect to my high-definition television. It also has a slot for the optical wire that transmits surround sound audio to a full-fledged Dolby Digital receiver, though you need to buy the optical wire itself at RadioShack or some other electronics shop...
...need to buy the $400 version of the console? Yes. If you are dying to get your hands on the Xbox 360, there's no reason not to splurge on the deluxe package with hard drive and wireless controller. The wireless controller is better than the regular wired one, and the included hard drive is key to playing older Xbox titles, as well as being useful for archiving music...
...best reason is that the current version includes a media remote control. I've played with Microsoft's more advanced remote, as well as Logitech's Harmony remote built for the Xbox, and while both are quite nice, they don't do a whole lot more than the one that's included-for a limited time-in the $400 system configuration. If you can get that remote, you won't have to memorize a bunch of controller commands to play DVDs and music. (All of the remotes suffer from the same flaw, not being able to scroll through long lists...