Xbox 360 – How to Delete Gamer Profiles

1. Hard to tell what would be a problem here. This could be affected by the quality of the videos, your Xbox settings, your Windows Media Center settings, or even your TV's settings. I'm going to suggest a couple things, but I'm going from memory here, so I don't guarantee them working.

   • During playback, press 'A' and look for 'Display' in the controls that come up. You should be able to change the display mode there. Play around with different values and see if any of them look better.
   • Copy your video files to a USB key and play them that way. If they look better, the problem may lie with Windows Media Center. To do this, plug in the USB key and then, when you're in the Dashboard, push the Xbox button on your controller and navigate right to the Media tab. Choose "Video Library". The USB key should be enabled in the list of available sources as "portable device".

2. I think "Zoom 1" refers to the zoom settings in Windows Media Center here. Zoom 1 means normal aspect ratio, Zoom 2 means stretching the video horizontally to remove black bars, Zoom 3 means stretching the video vertically to remove black bars at the top and the bottom, and Zoom 4 attempts to dynamically adjust the video to keep it in the middle of the screen.

3. You're correct. No internet bandwidth is used for transfers between your computer and your Xbox.

4. You can't move files on the Xbox's HDD from a USB key. You can add music files to the harddrive by ripping music CDs, but that's about it.

Yes, that should have more than enough space for that. I've had my Xbox 360 for close to two and a half years, and after playing 100 or so games my profile takes up about 10MB. As for save games, I'm not sure how much space mine are taking but most save games are less than 1MB so there should be plenty of room for them as well.

If you do need more room and don't want to spring for the 250GB hard drive (now or later - it is cheaper to buy it with the console, though) you can always use USB drives for storage. The Xbox 360 supports drives up to 16GB.

Note that the vast majority of games don't require a hard drive, but some do. The only ones I'm aware of off hand are Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST, and Halo Reach. In this case, you can play the game but you can't play the campaign or Firefight in co-op mode (at least online - not sure if the same restriction exists for local co-op).