Since this is a 360 discussion thread, I have questions regarding the use of the 360 as a media player. I've read somewhere it is possible to hook up your 360 to an external hard drive and access media files from there such as videos, music and pictures. What I am wondering about is if there is any specific format for each media to make it accessible by the 360. For example, can any video files be played such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, RMVB etc, can any music files be played such as MP3, WMA, OGG, etc, can any pictures be accessed such as JPEG, BMP, GIF etc. Also are there certain files that can NOT be played by the 360. Thanks for the feedback provided as I am currently looking to get an xbox 360 not only for games but as a media player as well and was wondering how this would work with an external hard drive.