HD For Indies

Was at a party over the weekend, and the homeowner had just received their Xbox 360. I noticed an iPod mini connected to it via USB and I asked about it - the 360 talks to the iPod via USB, and you can actually select music to play during the game FROM the iPod. Sweet! I can't imagine Microsoft actually working with Apple (or vice versa!) to the extent to make this work. What, did the engineers have to be behind bulletproof plexi to work on this together?

A nice bit of media integration that I NEVER would have expected a year or two ago. Things are starting to work, this whole Media Convergence thing keeps getting surprisingly closer and closer!

FYI, the 14 year old quite THOROUGHLY trounced me at Halo, and there was a time when I was Fearsome at Marathon, Halo's progenitor...

...apparently, I am Old.

And Lame.

Dammit.

-mike

PS - but I did get to pull the old run around the indoor corner face to face with rocket launcher and pull trigger to the taunt of "Here...hold this."

(kudos to Mike Bevil for teaching me that classic manuever)