What Are The Exclusive Features Of Microsoft Xbox

Microsoft Xbox is a sixth generation video game console with which Microsoft Launched into the gaming market competing with Sony’s Play station 2, Nintendo’s Game Cube, Sega’s Dreamcast, etc.

Microsoft Xbox was unveiled on November 15, 2001 in North America marking the beginning of an era of Xbox. The first edition of Microsoft Xbox was developed by a small team in Microsoft that included game developer Seamus Blackley.
Starting from a very small beginning in the gaming console market, Microsoft in the year 2002 overtook Nintendo to hold the second position in North America in the gaming market.

Microsoft Xbox had an added advantage over its competitors by incorporating a hard disk drive basically utilized for saving games and downloaded content with the help of Xbox Live. So, the users were not required to spend on separate memory cards. An Xbox user also had the facility of transferring music from audio CDs to hard drive and than using it to custom soundtracks for specific games.

The Xbox also provided its user with the feature of Dolby Interactive Content-Encoding technology allowing Dolby Digital encoding in game consoles. Moreover, the Xbox also came with certain innovative safety features in the form of breakaway cables for the controllers preventing the console from being pulled from the surface it rests on. In an ongoing process several revisions were carried out to discourage modding, make the DVD-ROM drive more reliable and also cut manufacturing costs to face intense competition.

Microsoft Xbox provided controller features in the form of two analog sticks, two analog triggers, a pressure sensitive directional pad, a Back and start button, two accessory slots and six 8-bit analog action buttons. Facing huge criticism for being too bulky, the standard Xbox controller was eventually replaced by Controller S. Adding to these the Xbox also included a standard AV cable for providing composite video and stereo audio utilizing RCA input system.

The Xbox was supported by a customized operating system similar to a modified version of the Windows 2000 kernel.
Xbox dashboard is the user interface for the Xbox that features media player allowing the user to play and manage saved games, music and also downloaded content.

In a nut shell, the positive aspects of a Microsoft Xbox system are its high resolution display support, a 8 GB hard drive to store saved games and music and a built-in broadband adapter. On the other hand the primary drawbacks are the big and bulky system, unavailability of progressive-scan DVD playback and the requirement of a separate kit to unlock DVD viewing capability.

However, the Microsoft Xbox still complements a perfect home-theater system adapting itself to multipurpose requirements for family and friends.