I assume at the very least it will be the MS exclusives. I've heard that Horizon 4 and ori are included but i havent seen the list.

Its so important to have the OLED set up right if you're planning to use the XSX as a media centre. For me it's an effective way of bypassing geo-fenced content.

Watching the Mandalorian with his beskar armour glittering under the Tatooine suns on Disney +'s DV implementation is really something else.

Have to say though, that i have major doubts the Disney/hotstar app will ever make an appearance on the xbox.

I've gone for colour accuracy using these settings https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/commen...ended_settings/

As a result, I watch all my media apps in game mode on the xbox. My reasoning behind it is that if the screen has already been calibrated for accuracy, i don't really need any post processing from the tv to make the picture look better or worse because that's what the content creator intended? With HGiG i just trust the xbox to tell my TV what to do. I guess you might want to mess around with the settings if you're using an "inferior console" like the switch where you might want upscaling or something but the xbox is already outputting a 4k signal. Interested in hearing people's thoughts on this.

I kinda like using Over the moon on netflix expecially from the 28 minute to test for myself how nice the picture feels to me. With Dolby Vision in game mode on xbox there are so many colours and details you can pick out i just don't feel the need to mess around with my picture settings.

Having said that whenever you change modes on CX, doesn't it remember what picture settings you used last? Currently with no games outputting on Dolby Vision, DV should only be exclusively coming on in whichever media app you use. You shouldn't need to change picture setting when watching xbox if you had previously selected cinema mode on DV. apologies if I'm not remembering correctly - too lazy to verify myself.

I'll be the first to admit i'm not an expert on all this. I thought that the preferred option was to turn off dynamic tone mapping on the TV, enabling HGiG so that the xbox can send the HDR info to the TV. When i was using the HDR Calibration Setting app on the XSX both pictures would look the same until you turned the TV setting off. Also, what's the point of Cinema mode if you're going to turn off all the post processing? So much jargon and technical settings that i get confused about it.

The DV implementation for the Netflix app is not great, the most annoying thing being the menus. But Netflix does have tons of Dolby Vision Content as well as plain old bog standard UltraHD 4k content. After reading what you wrote i went and compared some non DV content on the xbox netflix to the webOS app. True enough xbox app is running DV while the WebOS app was not based on the DV notification. However, I had trouble differentiating the colours and presentation between the 2 apps. Maybe the xbox is asking the TV to turn on DV but because the source recording was in SDR, the tv is just not receiving any HDR content? Like i said, i'm no expert but it looks good to me? (I used Master of None season 3 for this comparison)

Prime is just normal HDR while HBO Max is only outputting SDR even though it says DV on their same day releases. Disney + is the only other app on xbox that's in full DV as far as i can tell.

It's a shame because there's so much good content on HBO Max. Unfortunately this type of thing means that we are always at the mercy of the app developers - hopefully it comes soon, they announced last week that we're getting apple+ in dolby vision so devs are interested in upgrading the apps. Apps like Disney/Hotstar - Im pretty sure we wont see an xbox version but I would be happy to be proven wrong..

Still spending money with Gamepass... Enjoyed Forza 7 and paid sale price for the ultimate version because the season pass/VIP/DLC was going to cost just as much.

Also, bought sekiro in the current sale... so good. I'm happy to have a collection of digital games that I'll never return to haha.

Nice!

I paid 30USD for mine - for me that's a fair price. I dare not do this type of exploit as I have more than 10 years of purchases on my account and i don't want to get banned for this.

Yeah - don't know about using throwaway accounts. Just don't fell comfortable using them.

Later on you will receive a dragon tear drop which can reduce dragon rot. You will also be able to buy it from a NPC later in the game. This game - takes a while to GIT GUD - I'm just getting used to the different patterns which basically involves hitting your head against a brick wall until you get it lol.

Actually I just want the stream from xbox ->pc so that I can do some gaming while the kids are watching some crap on the TV.

Hahaha old already.. at that age where I need reading glasses.. small screen is too small lol

Finally 1000gs sekiro after 3 weeks.. time to start going through that game pass backlog

Game is so good, I'm still playing it. Very rare that I'm playing a game after completing all the achievements! Going through the gauntlets of strength now which is basically the boss fights.

Yes there was one stupid general that i spend an hour at just trying to figure out the pattern. Once you start recognising the patterns and getting the deflects and counters in, the feedback loop is very rewarding. NG+ and NG++ was so much faster than my 1st run.

That Yakuza backlog though.. I did Yakuzo 0 and 1, started 2 but wasn't great on my one x and never really went back to it. Even though i've fully accepted that this series is one of those that i'll never get my 1000GS in, just thinking about playing through yakuza 2-6 is very exhausting - don't think i'll ever get around to playing like a dragon.

Just finished it - It's an ok game to fill the time while waiting for Hades. couple of achievements are annoyingly bugged.

I get the blade runner references. For me this is what the alien worlds in mass effect should look like. The world building is the best part of the game. Gameplay is so so.

For that price the Razer kaira pro for Xbox seems like a decent buy. Just wondering why there’s so little hype here about those?

True - not readily available here. But you had to go through some hoops for your arctix as well right?

The reason i brought up the Kaira Pro is i saw a listing on Shoppee for RM679 - shipped from HK. Supports Bt 5.0 and xbox wireless so seems to do the same job and doesn't seem to be as heavily scalped.

Beat hades on my 15th attempt. Still enjoyable after spending so many hours on the steam version.

First time was using the bow - Aspect of Chiron. This was before i had unlocked the boon/debuff bonus damage mirror talents. So it was a very slow run. Lots of kiting by using my dash->powershot_>special.

Pretty good that you reached hades already - my first time on the steam version i think it took me about 50 attempts to get him down.

Haha looking at my steam save file, i must really suck as it took me 45 attempts just to get to Hades!

What happens when you contact microsoft with the serial number? It should still be covered by manufacturer warranty. Try that first.