Original XBox Live Service Closing
Microsoft announces that On April 15th, they will be pulling the plug on the XBox Live service for Xbox games. This means that ALL Origianl Xbox games, including thous that are playable on the XBox 360 will not be able to go online. This includes games that have been downloaded through XBox live on the 360. This is going to upset plenty of Halo 2 players, but Microst says they will gain more flexibility with Live by doing this.
Ceton Announces Quad-Tuner Card
CES 2010 brought us plenty of things, one of these being the great Ceton Quad-Tuner. As you’d expect, it is a multi-stream CableCard tuner. This fits in a single PCI-E card that lets you record four HD channels at one time. This is great news for those that rely on a Media Center computer as the primary source of receiving and recording Cable/Satellite TV. As we all know its cheaper to get a cable toner on a computer than getting the Cable or Dish box. By using the CableCard offer by all providers at a much lower cost ranging from $2- $8 per month.
According to the Centon website, the tuner is scheduled to be realeased on March 31, 2010, priced at $399. A must have for those of us that have a Media Center powered entertainment center.
Microsoft’s huge Zune update flaw causes confusion towards ‘Fans’
Yes unfortunately for Microsoft they suffered from a huge update glitch that apparently they weren’t prepared for and in the end cost them several Zune fans. Some of us are actually users of Microsoft’s Zune like myself, as I own their 
30gb Zune Player and it just so happens that I was impacted by this update and suffered for more than a month. But getting back to the update, I’ll break down the specifics: It’s a Zune 3.2 Firmware update that was suppose to improve all non-zune HD’s, in this case it would be the Zune 4gb, Zune 8gb, Zune 16gb, Zune 30gb, Zune 80gb and the Zune 120gb. However, mostly for the zune 30gb users, the update may end up going left.. why? Well the update has 4 steps and when it gets to step 3 it decides to bring an error message each time you reset the update.
Pulling a random stunt to find ways around the update, like removing the sync-cable during the update or resetting the Zune device, can cause your Zune to become a brick. It only shows a black screen and if you get lucky it may eventually show up on your screen after 5-10 minutes. Worst part of it is you can not use any features other than listen to SOME of your music (some display errors) and videos which they both tend to freeze from time to time, and you can no longer sync your Zune device to your software. Many former fans have called Microsoft to inform them of this problem but they will attempt to charge you to get it fixed. But the good news is, YOU can fix this problem: Restoring your entire Zune. It’s the only thing that’s worked, even though you lose everything you had but hopefully you saved everything on your computer.. otherwise you’ll have to start from scratch. If you were one of the lucky ones who were successful with this update, good for you. But for future reference, be careful with similar situations.