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RE: Which Media Center ?
Sweet info Marcus... cheers.
ps How do I tell the version no.
Seen a couple of xboxs for sale around the 40-50 squid mark sound
reasonable ?
Some last q's : does the xbox have usb ? and obviously must have network ?
Was thinking of a wifi card for it via usb and compiling up a kernel to
handle it.
Shaf
> AFAIK the TV out from the Xbox is second to non and you would
certainly
> end up paying
> more than the price of the Xbox for the graphics card alone !
>
> There are still Xboxes available on eBay and my local Game shop has
> second hand ones
> with a warranty. If you soft mod it (rather than chip it) then you
won't
> loose the warranty :)
>
> I don't think you'll find anything to beat the Xbox for "value
for
> money"
>
> The later models (1.6) seem to have much quieter fans than the early
> models, I have changed
> the fan in my 1.4 model for a quite PC case fan.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a xAP connector for the XBox ?
>
> Marcus
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Shaf Ali
> Sent: 18 July 2006 09:45
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Which Media Center ?
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> BIG BIG SMILE :)
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> I was gonna mention this as I know a lot of boys had been doing
> this a
> while back.
>
> I think I will end up going down this route as ultimately it
> does/did have
> the more superior TV out stage.
>
> Is it still the best ? Or is there another bit of hardware out
> there that
> we can hack/flash ?
>
> ps I wonder where I can pick up an old xbox up from in the UK.
>
> > Apart from recording (which I use a backend MythTV box for),
> you can't
> > beat an XBOX and XMBC for
> > playback :)
> >
> > Marcus
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