Xbox 360 Sound Update This November
According to reports, Microsoft plan to update the sound quality of Xbox Live chat this November.
The update will coincide with the Kinect launch, due to Kinect having excellent sound quality, as seen at E3. It will upgrade the codec and audio infrastructure that underpins the voice quality of communication from Xbox 360 to Xbox 360 and should make for clear chat between gamers.
Jerry Johnson, who is boss of Xbox Live Studios said “The codec we used when we first launched was a low bit rate codec and we stuck with that,” Johnson explained. We launched and we said we required broadband. We required a 64k connection, which not many people think of as broadband any longer. But that was the minimum requirement to run the service at the time. It’s time for us to move on. Especially if we want to think about broadening – a crackly headset on the top of your head – not what people think of when they talk about popular entertainment.”
The quality of sound has been complained about on numerous occasions, and Microsoft choose now to do something about it, years after the first complaint.
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