Microsoft Ready To Bleep You Off??? News
US patent office reveals real-time audio censoring technology to stop the airwaves from turning blue...
By Jon WilcoxPosted: 21/10/2008
As many would testify, Xbox Live is a competitive arena where it's not uncommon to hear certain words shouted out at times of frustration ('drat', 'dang', and 'blast it' instantly spring to mind). But that could all change in the future, with confirmation that Microsoft's 2004 patent for real-time audio censoring has been passed by the US Patent & Trademarks Office.
The newly granted patent, unearthed by Arc Technica, works by identifying words based on their constituent phonemes in real-time and bleeping or muting the potentially offensive word.
But whilst the technology has an obvious application as Microsoft continues to push the Xbox 360 as a family friendly console, the wider potential could see it used on mainstream TV and even in general telephone conversations.
Sounding decidedly sinister at certain angles, Microsoft is yet to actually reveal its plans for the &$*%-ing technology.
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Added:Thu 25th Jun 2009 11:34, Post No: 384
Somebody mother[#@!?] put Disgaea on the 360 already.
Added:Tue 23rd Jun 2009 17:59, Post No: 383
[#@!?] me
Added:Tue 23rd Jun 2009 02:08, Post No: 382
xbox360 has better graphics better games and is better period
Added:Tue 23rd Jun 2009 02:06, Post No: 381
ps3 sucks xbox 360 rules
Added:Mon 22nd Jun 2009 11:29, Post No: 380
lol the hdd in the ps3 cant be changed very easily, for a start youll need to obtain the firmware from sony to put on the new drive (if it works and doesnt bri[#@!?]r ps3) youll also need to backup all your game saves/dlc. plus if you break the paint on the screws on the hdd bay you will invalidate your warrenty on your ps3 so if you screw up the ps3 youll have to buy a new one as sony wont touch it.
not so simple now is it.
Added:Mon 22nd Jun 2009 11:28, Post No: 379
lol the hdd in the ps3 cant be changed very easily, for a start youll need to obtain the firmware from sony to put on the new drive (if it works and doesnt bri[#@!?]r ps3) youll also need to backup all your game saves/dlc. plus if you break the paint on the screws on the hdd bay you will invalidate your warrenty on your ps3 so if you screw up the ps3 youll have to buy a new one as sony wont touch it.
not so simple now is it.
Added:Mon 15th Jun 2009 19:47, Post No: 378
@Post 377
The big diffrence is the hdd can be changed very easily in the Ps3, because it uses a 2.5" drive. The max size it can take at the moment is 500gb, which cost about £70.
Added:Thu 04th Jun 2009 06:02, Post No: 377
yes the price of the hdd is very expencive in comparison to a 1tb hdd but you can only get a 1tb drive on a pc, what if m$ did bring out a 1tb hdd for the 360 what kind of price do you think m$ is going to charge for it $300 minimum.
all you need to do is look at how much sony upped the price of the ps3 when they launched the 160gb ps3, just compare the price of an 80gb ps3 to a 160gb then just take a guess at how much a 1tb ps3 would be.
Added:Tue 02nd Jun 2009 14:17, Post No: 376
You know, it sounds good but when are they going to drop the price of the external hard drives so I could actually have the space to download this stuff? I can buy an external USB/eSata drive with over a terabyte for the same price Microshaft is charging for the 120 GB version. They are just shooting themselves in the foot though as it keeps me from buying more downloadable content.
Added:Tue 02nd Jun 2009 10:35, Post No: 375
Well it's evidently scripted to high heaven, but gotta take my hat off to Molyneux - at least he's reaching for the stars again.