said by beaups:I'll explain for him.
Red ring of death affected as many as 50% of early xbox 360 owners, by some estimates.
The machine has been revised several times since then, and failure rates are MUCH lower (but not publicly known).
I would guess that of the 39MM xbox units sold, ~25MM are in service still.
In glinc's expert analysis, I'm certain he has full understanding of the GPU and CPU load (and subsequent thermal impact), and thus he must have inside knowledge of the codec ESPN would use to stream, the bitrates, and how much of the load is distributed between the hana, gpu, and cpu....and very quickly formulated a theoretical failure rate for us..."even more" as he puts it.
Best reply of the day beaups!
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