{"id":244,"date":"2005-11-24T13:23:57","date_gmt":"2005-11-24T12:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2005-11-24T13:25:56","modified_gmt":"2005-11-24T12:25:56","slug":"xbox-360-updates-the-blue-screen-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"XBox 360 updates the blue screen of death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blue screen of death, AKA BSOD, is the page that appears whenever Micro$oft Windows crashes. Fortunately, with Windows XP this has become a far less common event, although still by no means unknown. It&#8217;s basically a bright blue screen with a basic font error message, telling you that your machine has died and giving you a reference number that means nothing to you at all and usually isn&#8217;t very helpful.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see then that the XBox 360 has a had a bit more thought put into it&#8217;s version of the BSOD, with a multi-lingual generic error message and a large pinstripe effect in the background. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/80491849@N00\/65990158\/\">Have a look for yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It rather worrying really that only a couple of days after the machine&#8217;s US release that there are already quite a few errors being reported. The usual &#8216;it&#8217;s not as next-generation as I expected&#8217; complaints are standard, but it seems unusual for consoles to have problems loading software at the time of release. It may simply be that this is a major launch, with a huge amount of hype, all happening in an age of massive instant internet feedback. Even if 0.001% of machines have problems it can still seem like a massive issue if those people go online to a few notable forums. <\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s nice that the BSOD has had some design work put into it! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Fancy getting an Xbox? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=theothersid0c-21&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;path=ASIN\/B0007SV72A\">UK link<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=theothersid0c-21&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=theothersid08-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/B000B43OY4\/sr=1-1\/qid=1132325752\/ref=sr_1_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8%26v=glance\">US link<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=theothersid08-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Xbox 360 BSOD info source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/11\/24\/xbox360_bugs\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blue screen of death, AKA BSOD, is the page that appears whenever Micro$oft Windows crashes. 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