RE: xBox - Get one NOW!

["Ben McCormack" <ben.mccormack@xxxxxxx>]

Mark

Where did you buy it from?

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall [mailto:Mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 February 2003 10:30
To: Ukha_D@Yahoogroups. Com
Subject: [ukha_d] xBox - Get one NOW!


I got my xbox yesterday...after a bit of a false start with a duff
mod-chip, DesG kindly got my new machine chipped :)

I only had a few hours to play with it last night, but here are a few
findings. Once modded (the chip is =A330)....

o It's a region free DVD player (it played xXx too which we believe is
an RCE disk?)

o It's CD Player

o It's a network media player - you can FTP DivX movies and MP3s to it's internal hard drive - *OR* you can stream them off your media server
using it's built in 10/100 nic!  DivX player has cool features where y= ou
can zoom in/out, calibrate screen, switch for 4:3 or WS..and even play
with AV synch delay time!

o With add-on leads you can get Optical out (Dolby digital) S-Video, RGB and (I'm told?) Component? - so - Optical out MP3 player too?

o Oh yeah...and it's a pretty hot games console too :)  The mod chip allows you to "borrow" your mates games (or rent?) and rip to it'= s
internal hard drive....once there you can move them off to your server
via it's built in 10/100 nic.... You can also download games (naughty)
and then up them to the xbox (via FTP)

o My box was manufactured in Oct 2002, the newest ones (Jan 03 on?) are
supposed to have 20 gig drives instead of the 10gig in mine.

o The entire box is the price of a decent PC video card!

Thanks to Des for his soldering skills and patience with me :)

M.



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