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Re: X Box 360 Yes or No ?
« Reply #45 on: 07 November 2006, 13:44:46 »
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I mentioned using 360 as MCE Extender earlier. Original XBOX can also be used as an extender as well...

Wonder if theres a way of accessing media on an xp system then or does it only work with media centre?
mce only.

Though with certain software on XBOX, you can map drives and play media files on XBOX from your XP PC.
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Re: X Box 360 Yes or No ?
« Reply #46 on: 07 November 2006, 14:52:00 »
Xbox as NAS would be cool, except it's so loud.
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Re: X Box 360 Yes or No ?
« Reply #47 on: 07 November 2006, 16:48:25 »
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I mentioned using 360 as MCE Extender earlier. Original XBOX can also be used as an extender as well...

Wonder if theres a way of accessing media on an xp system then or does it only work with media centre?

The Xbox and the 360 have ethernet ports, which can link up to any windows PC and read/transfer files to and from them. Thats how I transferred all my bits to mine. My xbox was my pride and joy - never used any disks except when i got new DVD's. Xboxes pretty much ARE media centres as opposed to extenders. Well they are if you get them mod chipped and install your own dashboard :D
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Re: X Box 360 Yes or No ?
« Reply #48 on: 07 November 2006, 16:57:18 »
Hey, might be on to something here!  How about setting up an old Xbox as a PVR?!  Only hardware you would need is a USB MPEG 2 or 4 converter and an adapter to plug it into a game controller port.  You could set it to automatically turn on, and if you had a usb infrared then you could make it turn on the digital cable, set the channel, etc.

Then you could also access it from your PC, unlike current PVR's - at least the cheap ones.
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Re: X Box 360 Yes or No ?
« Reply #49 on: 07 November 2006, 17:49:32 »
All talk of chipping xbox is dodgy ground. Thread locked.
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