In my last blog I talked about the 360.  I love this system.  Not only because it has some pretty solid titles to start out with, but also because of its compatibility.  This console is not only able to do the standard arrary of things you'd expect of a gaming console, like play CD's and DVD's, but it can also talk to a variety of other electronics that are USB driven.  That's the beauty of the XBOX 360.  I didn't want to take up a lot of space on my 360's harddrive because I have a lot of music I want to listen to. So I decided to purchase an external harddrive and load all the music from my computer into that and play it through the 360.  Worked like a dream.  You can do the same thing with an IPOD or any Mp3 player.  They're all just storage devices.  To make a really trick set up you could buy one of those docks for an IPOD and plug it into the USB port in the back of the 360, and when ever you want to listen to your tunes just dock the IPOD.  I'm glad Microsoft designed this unit to interact with other devices, because that's the way it should be with electronics, because it's the consumer who wins in the end.