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XNA's Chris Satchell Audio Interview
« on: September 03, 2006, 11:18:00 PM »

XNA's Chris Satchell Audio Interview
Posted by XanTium | September 4 00:42 EST

 
Major Nelson (Microsoft's Xbox Live Director of Programming) posted a new podcast today that includes an interesting interview with Chris Satchell (Microsoft's General Manager of XNA).
They talk a lot about XNA Game Studio Express, but also about 'Live Anywhere' and more ...

Check it out (download audio interview) on majornelson.com.

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Textbook

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« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2006, 10:31:00 PM »

Chris Satchell...that name rings a bell.

Oh yes, how could I forget!

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With the 360, Microsoft is aiming to make it as hard as possible to hack.

"We've taken security to the hardware level and built it in from the ground up," said Chris Satchell from the Xbox Advanced Technology Group.

"One of the reasons we went with custom hardware design for all our silicon is that it allows us to build security at the silicon level," he told the BBC News website.

"There are going to be levels of security in this box that the hacker community has never seen before."

Part of the motivation behind this is to prevent people from using the 360 to watch pirated films or TV shows.

But Mr Satchell admitted no system was fool-proof and that, with enough time and dedication, the security on the Xbox 360 would be broken.

"There're some really bright people in the world with some really expensive hardware," he said.

"I'm sure sooner or later someone will work out how to circumvent security. But the way we have done the design doesn't mean that it will work on somebody else's machine."


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Itcouldbeyou

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« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2006, 12:10:00 AM »

Did he mention anything new here? I'm now 45 mins into the show and all they said was already known...
Can they please start to release some news about XNA?
Can I do an interview about XNA please? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sleeping.gif)
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« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2006, 02:45:00 AM »

I want to know how much data we can actually compress without comprimising quality. Anyone here know?
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« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2006, 05:35:00 AM »

QUOTE(Textbook @ Sep 4 2006, 06:38 AM) *

Chris Satchell...that name rings a bell.

Oh yes, how could I forget!
 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)


Yeah, he was our biggest inspiration to do the firmware hack and we devoted our release video to him in which he got 'credited' (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)  http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EE...lFAhkcWwSgZ.php
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« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2006, 06:54:00 AM »

Heh heh.

I was gonna have a listen to see if theres anything useful about live anywhere, but 45 mins, thats too long for suttin i don't care that much about.

It seemed like an awesome idea, until penny arcade made me realise just how stupid it is...

(IMG:http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2006/20060619.jpg)

Seriously, who can like the idea after that...
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« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2006, 07:06:00 AM »

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Part of the motivation behind this is to prevent people from using the 360 to watch pirated films or TV shows.


Why would Microsoft care if you watched pirated films/tv shows on the 360? That argument just seems dumb. There are a lot of divx capabale DVD players out there...

We all know the real reason is that they wanted to sell more media centre equipped PCs.
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« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2006, 10:31:00 AM »

QUOTE(tutu @ Sep 4 2006, 02:37 PM) View Post

Why would Microsoft care if you watched pirated films/tv shows on the 360? That argument just seems dumb. There are a lot of divx capabale DVD players out there...


Unfortunately I just bought my original Xbox for media center use, thus MS didn't make any money on me, and I would buy the 360 in the second there is a beta for XBMC360 - perhaps even with the creators club.
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