RE: XBox - was Windows XP Media Center Edition Review

["Des Gibbons" <des@xxxxxxx>]

> > I was round at Des's house yesterday for a look at his 5 (yes
FIVE)
> > Xboxes!
>
> 5!!! What in God's name do you need 5 of them for?! ;)

lol, cos I can :p Seriously tho, I plan to have one per TV.

>
> > He has them chipped.  For 150 quid you get a fantastic games
console,
> a
> > DVD player, MP3 player, DivX player (isn't that new KISS DivX
player
> 250
> > quid alone?).  With it's 100meg ethernet port you don't even
need to
> have
> > the DivXs on it's own hard drive, you can just stream them off
your
> > server.
>
> What's the score with the X-Box mod as I know that the PS2 one
wasn't
> exactly the easiest of things to fit?

Very easy to fit if you know which end of a soldering iron to hold ;)
>
> > There seems to be so much development/hacking going on that the
future
> > looks superb for xBox.  I'm buying one soon :)
>
> To make it do what? I haven't really been paying that much attention
the
> X Box of late TBH and certainly not trawling the hack/mod sites
looking
> to see what it's capable of.

It is early days, a lot of rough edges,  but think of it as a
networked PC
with TVout.

Cheers, Des.

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