Microsoft LifeChat ZX-6000 doubles as Xbox 360 wireless receiver and headset for Skype.
Jon ordered a new Microsoft LifeChat ZX-6000 from Amazon (using some major credit) which arrived today. There’s little information about this headset, I didn’t even really know it existed till he brought it up. So yeah, no real information about the base unit but we figured it was free credit so might as well try. Opened it up and sure enough the base unit reads Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows. Plug it in, Vista sees it, it doesn’t find drivers, Jon downloads the drivers from Microsoft Hardware. Install takes a good 5 minutes for the 3MB setup, totally lame, especially on Vista. The headset worked perfectly, pressed the button and up came WLM8.1, we then tried pairing the Xbox 360 Wireless controller, it paired just fine as well. Then did a short Skype call after setting the input and output to echo123 and that also worked perfectly. So awesome, a good solution to kill two birds with one stone. Only caveat that I can see is that after testing with the Xbox 360 itself I can’t find a way to pair the headset with the 360. Regardless considering the receiver is $20 normally getting a nice headset and a good way to do wireless calls with Skype is worth the $30.
Tags: Ideas, Microsoft, Solutions, Vista
May 8th, 2007 at 2:21 am
Have you tried it yet with the 360?
May 8th, 2007 at 2:31 am
Yep, and it doesn’t seem to work. So it looks like one would still have to buy the wireless headset for the 360.
June 27th, 2007 at 3:22 am
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936830
August 9th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Did you try plugging the receiver into the 360 and see if the headset would pair with the receiver and work then? Just curious…
November 13th, 2007 at 1:47 am
What does it mean to connect it to a controller and not the 360 itself? Does that mean you can still talk on xbox live with it?
February 21st, 2008 at 9:57 pm
re: lifechat zx-6000 are there interference issues if 2 or3 wireless headsets (each with their own receivers on separate pcs) are used in close proximity? thanks
October 10th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
you are going to need to plug the reciever into the xbox, but when i tried doing that it just froze my xbox, but it wont work without the reciever because it runs a 2.4 ghz wireless connection, while xbox 360 is bluetooth.