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well hey guys this is tom from the verge just going to have a look at the xbox live integration on windows 8 and some of the audio and video features so start off with xbox live you see it here on the home screen if we go in the first thing you notice is be able to get access to your avatar here on the Left we scroll across I have should actually be able to customize the avatar I'm not sure if that's that's working totally right now I think it's a few connection issues and it you will be able to customize your avatar there and you can also get access to your friends list so you can see who's online and if we go into one particular friend you can sort of compare games and can ever look at their profile it seems very similar to the actual iOS so do ipad application so some of the games that are coming from as I and you will actually get achievements with them so your bid to access those achievements here final part of it is the yeah chica access to the windows getting marketplace now there's not a lot of games in here should show you i think we've only got pinball FX at two and solitaire and if you're going solitaire we can either buy it or look at the game details I think we've already got it on the system's it's pre-installed just look at the full tile version and they get play option there just go in and play solitaire so obviously this is a another sort of Metro style and game here so you could play solitaire just as you normally would and it's also got achievements once it's an xbox live game and it will seem to choose your as your avatar up there in the top right okay so we're just going to look at the video app in windows 8 here this is the main way that you'd actually play or access video content on windows 8 and as you can see you get the sort of spotlight stuff and the whole interface looks very much like the Xbox Live app and we can scroll across and you get your collection so you've got one video in there at the moment and you also get the movies marketplace and a TV marketplace and if we go back to our collection and reply this video what you see you get lots large sort of Metro style controls there and you can right-click to bring up the sort of controllers down the bottom there and now there's an option here that says play on xbox basically we haven't got an Xbox see it right now but this uses the Xbox Live companion application to stream this content to an xbox and the other thing we can do is we can you drag down from the top and then snap to the left and what will happen is this will basically go into a mini player so you got the mini player there and it's like an overview of what's coming up next it's like if we go back to the actual main start screen and we launch you say whether what you see is it still snapped alongside so you can basically launch another metro app or even a desktop app and you still had this snap to the side though so we drag this has to strike this back out and we go back to the main interface and that what you'll notice here is danna bottom the video was still playing even when you're in the video app application you not see control it there and now if we have a look through the store or you'll notice is no mention of zune at all so we've got TV marketplace their movie marketplace and we'll see the spotlight stuff okay so next up we're going to look at the music application and again very similar to the video application this is the main interaction point for any audio content on Windows 8 again you can right-click you get access to the controls down the bottom here one thing that's missing is the pay on xbox and so it doesn't look like you can stream audio content to the xbox 360 using the companion application and we've also got the spotlight so very similar and to the video one and we've got our collection here so you can see some of the songs we've got there and the music marketplace on the right there again no mention of zoom now let's play some music so it's identical to the video application and you also get some cover art in the background which is also pretty much the same as the xbox experience at the moment so we can also snap this to the side and that will create a mini player and we can go into another metro style application and use that just bring that back up okay as you can see when you go back to the music app it's still playing on the bottom and you get state as there as well similar to the e video app so when you're in a traditional desktop and you double-click a file so this is a music file it will actually open it in the Metro style a music player and that is the same for videos as well so if we go back it will bring up the metro-style video player as well okay and that wraps up yeah a quick look at the music and the video and export side of Windows a