RE: Which Media Center ?

["Christopher Purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

Why not just buy the xbox wireless bridge instead off faffing around
with drivers ?


p.s we have 2 xbmc's - very nice indeed.

Chris




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> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> From: shaf@xxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:22:49 +0100
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] 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 ?
> >
> >
> >
> > BIG BIG SMILE :)
> >
> > 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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