XBorx Media Center

THON · Post by **THON** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:39 pm

http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to- ... 299809.php

Looks pretty cool. Now maybe I should've bought that old XBox...

Anyone try it yet?

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:29 am

Yep. I installed it about a year ago. I use it every day. It's amazing.

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:28 am

It's the best thing that I ever did to that black pile of poo that's sitting in my floor. My dvds look quite nice on my HDTV with XBMC's upscaling.

I Tsop Flashed mine, so I have an 80gig HDD in there also. makes a nice little media center.

THON · Post by **THON** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:08 pm

Wow this sounds great. Do you think it's worth it to buy an XBox just for this?

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:36 pm

THON wrote:Wow this sounds great. Do you think it's worth it to buy an XBox just for this?

Thats the reason I'm buying a second Xbox from my friend for $50. I'm gonna put a modchip in it, a bigger hard drive (at least 80GB), load it up with movies and games (only ones we own), and then give it a home in our minivan to make use of the 8" LCD we have in there.

Post by **bicostp** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:42 pm

THON wrote:Wow this sounds great. Do you think it's worth it to buy an XBox just for this?

Not unless you can get it really cheap. (<$50 or so, no games included. Naturally one with games is worth more.)

I built a HTPC for $200 that can do more than a hacked Xbox can. (Mainly because it's a 3 ghz Pentium D instead of a 733 mhz P3. Yeah, I scraped the bottom of the barrel.

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Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:14 pm

How did all of you guys get Xborxes? I've never even heard of an Xborx.

THON · Post by **THON** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:07 pm

Kurt_ wrote:How did all of you guys get Xborxes? I've never even heard of an Xborx.

XBorx. Like job vs. jorb. Sometimes I'm just compelled to say it.

I think I'll try and buy one cheap, and maybe put it in a couch or something. That would be great.

I don't know about a PC... I just feel like it will be much harder to work with.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:20 pm

XBMC is good...I don't use it that much seeing as my PC is right next to the Xbox and it can download movies of the internetz....

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:30 pm

Harshboy wrote:XBMC is good...I don't use it that much seeing as my PC is right next to the Xbox and it can download movies of the internetz....

If your Xbox is on your network, you can stream your stuff on your computer to XBMC. It works very well for me.

Of course, this is not important if you have an amazing monitor for your computer (I don't.).

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:36 am

I have this on my Xbox too, only thing I found wrong with it it says my Spiderman 1 dvd movie (I used it to test the dvd functionality) needed to be played on a region 1 player, yet all my other NTSC movies have played just fine, weird