XBMC, XBox, MAC, Windows, Linux

["Nigel Giddings" <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

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I see from the other thread, and of course previous threads, that you are
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fan of XBMC.

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I have had a modded Xbox  for years now, a chipped version that I did
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f back in the day when 'Mars' did the token thingy and I think it ended up
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being =A340 from Argos and you got a couple of boxes of sweets to boot.
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e me very popular with the nephews.

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Only this week I have finally managed to soft mod a second box, boy it's
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sy! At least it is easy when you know how. If, like me, you don't play
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s on the machine and aren't familiar with 'action replay' you can struggle
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a bit. In fact my friend and I, two men of progressing years with no
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st in the Xbox as a games machine took hours to do the first one because
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didn't know how to move files around. We managed to mod (including upgradi=
ng an Xbox using the Live service) the subsequent boxes (4 in total) in
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erally 20 minutes each.

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I understand you run a number of modded XBoxes and wondered why you liked
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he idea of a MAC version, also interested to see if you, or anyone else on
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the list has tried XBMC for windows. I currently use VLC for my Cinema but
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wanted a more Wife Friendly interface. XLobby was on the cards but of
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e that has changed direction recently. As SWMBO is happy using XBMC and it
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also works well with the TiVo XBMC for Windows may be a better choice. An
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box in the Cinema may also be an option but I need VGA / RGB to drive the
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RT (Barco 808). I haven't tried the Xbox with 720p yet either and would
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t a source with a high resolution output, something that is easy to adjust
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with a PC...

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Hope this is not seen as OT

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Nigel



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