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What pisses me off about this is I came really fuckin close to purchasing the Elite, because I could not for the life of me tell if Xbox arcade had HDMI, even the rep said that only the ELITE has HDMI.

If you go here, it doesn’t tell you

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10095079&catid=

If you go here, it doesn’t tell you

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360arcadesystem/

But, if you go here it sure tells you, over and over

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360elitesystem/default.htm

If you own an existing xbox like I did, the decision becomes confusing because you want to transfer all your saves and rock band songs on to the new xbox. So if you’re a first gen owner, and your XBOX is coming down to the wonderful Red Ring of Death, they throw you for a loop thinking XBOX elite is the only system with HDMI.

Now unfortunately, when you get the red ring of death, you’re shit’s about to die hardcore. Don’t even bother calling Microsoft, they’re so useless it’s sad. They’ll offer to refurb your shit, thing is, it’ll cost you 100$, not including shipping, and the 1 month turnaround. Unacceptable. They tell you that the only way to transfer your shit over to the new one is with their patented data transfer cable… The only way, really? p.s. In order to get that cable, you have to have the fuckin serial number of your “new” and “old” xbox… Nice.

In reality, I’d say, fuck Microsoft, burn. But truth is, it’s the best gaming console and that’s where they get ya and they know it.

Alright, alright… Long story short.

So, I finally make my decision and say to myself, damn, the wife will shoot me if I blow $500 smackers on a new xbox and get the el cheapo arcade and I’ll start all my games over, fuck it.

Open the box, voila, xbox arcade has HDMI. Take the hard drive off my old xbox, plop that on, plug in the HDMI, BOOM. Everything works like magic. Microsoft rep forgot to tell me that part, Dirty dirty tricksters them are.

Conclusion.

If you have an existing XBOX that’s dying, get the cheapo arcade, it has HDMI and just transfer your HD to it.