RE: Network media player

[Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I bought a component lead off eBay as well (cost me as much as
the XB=
ox itself!)

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Set it up on the bedroom Xbox (since this is only HD telly in the house)
an=
d was trying to get some downloaded HD clips to play... can't remember how
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far I got with it? , another project to revisit on a rainy day.

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Although the xBox doesn't have enough grunt to play full HD I believe its
s=
upposed to be able to handle  720p divx as long as you disable some of the
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background services like ftp etc.

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of T=
im Hawes
Sent: 29 May 2007 19:48
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Network media player

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Here's Mark's post on the xbox & "HD"...
http://www.ukha-archive.com/ml/ukhad/2006-nov/msg00860.html
<http://www.ukh=
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I think he was pleased ;-)

Tim.

On 5/29/07, Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxx <mailto:marcus.=
warrington%40mis-es.com> > wrote:
> Ian,
>
>
>
> XBOX .. XBOX... XBOX...
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> I saw these for sale in "Game" stores for =A335 over the
weekend (second =
hand but what the heck.. still with a guarantee)
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>
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> Soft modding it is a piece of cake..all you need is a 8meg card and a
gam=
e (Splinter Cell) and the "modding software" (check
www.thepiratebay.org <h=
ttp://www.thepiratebay.org/ <http://www.thepiratebay.org/>
> for auto insta=
ller deluxe)
>
> You'll need a chipped XBOX to get the files onto the card.. or just
give =
the card to someone who already has a modded xbox and get them copy the
fil=
es to it... if you don't know anyone then send me the card and copy them
on=
for you.
>
>
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> Takes about 5minutes (and can be reversed in case of a warranty claim)
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> Copy on the latest XBMC and voila ... one Media Centre PC that beats
the =
pants over ANYTHING else I've seen and has cost you less than =A345 !!!!!
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> Marcus

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