RE: Which Media Center ?

["Shaf Ali" <shaf@xxxxxxxx>]

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 !
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> 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 :)
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> I don't think you'll find anything to beat the Xbox for "value
for
> money"
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> 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 ?
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> Marcus
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> 	-----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.
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> 	I think I will end up going down this route as ultimately it
> does/did have
> 	the more superior TV out stage.
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> 	Is it still the best ? Or is there another bit of hardware out
> there that
> 	we can hack/flash ?
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> 	ps I wonder where I can pick up an old xbox up from in the UK.
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> 	> 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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