As JDOGG mentioned, the Halo 3 beta will only be available to a chosen few. Maybe if we all register, one of us might get chosen.

Source = http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/748/748270p1.html

Halo 3 Beta Not Open to All
Plus a new screenshot from the upcoming trailer.
by Hilary Goldstein

November 30, 2006 - Sad news. The previously announced Halo 3 Beta will not be available for every eager Xbox 360 gamer. In a press release teasing the December 4 Halo 3 trailer, Microsoft revealed that gamers will \"register for the opportunity to be one of the select members\" of the public beta. Just because you love Halo doesn\'t guarantee you will be able to enjoy the multiplayer experience this spring.

Save the date. I've met with Midnight and on Saturday, January 6th, 2007th I will host a HALO 1 LAN at my place starting at noon. You can play until noon on Sunday at which time I'll begin chainsawing you with my Lancer.

This LAN will be like the others. No H2 allowed. No Guitar Hero 2 allowed. No laser pointers anywhere near my cat. Gears of Wars. What to do? I say we'll experiment with a little GoW LAN action. However like H2, since we can play GoW MP online at any time, we'll be making the most of Hang 'Em High and Damnation.

Bring TV's and XBOXEN. Bring fold up chairs. Bring snacks and drinks. Chaos will be bringing cookies.

Regular local attendees are expected plus these special guests:

Midnight and BattleBitch are flying in from California. jayWHY is flying down from Philly. D4RE B34R and D1ESEL are driving up from Auburn. A few others have mentioned driving a few hours to attend the LAN but are still unconfirmed.

For those coming out of town, you are welcome to crash at my place as long as you've made arrangements with me.

Thoughts?

I've created an "event" post for this LAN at: http://hushedcasket.com/node/1551. But, let's keep all communication in this thread for now. Equipment list started below. Reply to this thread and let me know what you are bringing.

I just recently purchased a 24" Dell 2407 (rev A03) widescreen monitor specifically to play games on and thought I'd share my thoughts on it so far, and maybe ask for any opinions. I have seen a lot of conflicting information on the web about this monitor, so maybe this will help somebody. Now that the fall update (2006) for the 360 has been released, you can see the 1080p resolution in the 360's display options. I first tried this option with the monitor hooked up by the component cable that came with the 360, it appears that the monitor's component chip will not accept a 1080p signal. It gave me an error saying that it could not display the input resolution. This is probably due to the monitor's designers anticipating that anything coming into component will not be more than 720 because of the coming hdcp restrictions. The 720p option does work with component however.