Well short sharp and simple! I play my xBox a lot mainly games like the Darkness but when we have friends over etc. games like You're in the Movies are great. Last Sunday we had a Kinect Party night playing the four titles that I currently own and we kept trying to open Totem pole (This obviously failed each time) but I thought, "Well that's a good idea".

Also I'm really looking forward to You Don't Know Jack (YDKJ) for Kinect that looks great

Wow I never thought of that! Very true.

I have one my son loves playing in the movies.

That's cool - what's the quality like? I had a similar experience with my PlayStation Eye camera, too much wine and a game of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The results were not pleasing

I made this post to another Kinect web site:

Wow, we just tried out video kinect and just wow... My brother and I were sitting on the couch with the Kinect calling my other brother who was on his laptop in another city and we could hear each other so clearly. We sit about 12 feet from the Kinect on the couch. The voice quality was excellent. Video was great.

I expected to sound far away like in the Cisco demo for their video chat living room system. But it sounded like we were in front of a mic.

I read that you can do 8-way calling with Kinect. But we tried to do a 3-way using 2 laptops using Live Messenger and 1 Kinect and couldn't figure out how.

We had one laptop connected to Kinect in a video chat. we then tried to get another laptop to call the other laptop (Live Messenger to Live Messenger) and it said a video chat was already in session and it wouldn't let him join in.

using the same laptop/Messenger to kinect call in session, we then tried a laptop/Messenger to call the kinect that was already in session. On the xbox, we got a popup saying someone was trying to initiate a call. but I couldn't see any option to pick up the call.

So now we're thinking 8-way is only if everyone has a kinect. or maybe this is a feature that's coming in a future update. multiway chat with kinect would just be awesome.

things we wished for:

1) easy multiway chat

2) manual zoom options. like in the ad, when multiple people enter the viewing area, it'll zoom out to accommodate everyone. but it really zooms out far so that we're small (IMO). we wished we had full control of the zooming like with a controller. if we turned off auto-zoom, it would zoom us back in close which is acceptable but the auto-zoom and tracking is very cool, especially if there's only one person in the frame. you can literally walk around the room and it follows you.

3) a way to add msn messenger contacts on the xbox. we couldn't figure this out. my bro didn't have a msn account so he had to create one. i couldn't find a way to accept an invitation or send an invitation on the xbox. the xbox would only see my msn contacts that I already had. so we had to log into live messenger on a laptop, accept the invitation and then log in on the xbox to see the newly accepted msn account. it felt like the old version of netflix where you couldn't change the queue on Netflix and had to do the queue on a PC and then go back to the xbox.

I'd like them to have Skype as well.  but does facebook have video chat?