Using XBMC with your HDTV

8/27/2006

2nd - What is XBMC?

For those of you who don't already know (from wikipedia):

Xbox Media Center (XBMC) is a free feature-rich open source media player / jukebox for the Xbox™ game-console - XBMC software program which plays video, music and displays pictures/images from the Xbox DVD-ROM drive, built-in harddisk drive, local-area-network or the Internet.

Simply put, if you're looking for a HTPC (Home Theater Personal Computer) that can play pretty much anything you can throw at it (including any video/audio file format on DVD, CD, or even on a network share) then why spend hundreds of dollars on building a HTPC? All you have to do is drop $100 on a used Xbox from eBay, do a softmod, and you're up and running in no time!

The purpose of this page is not to educate people on how to mod an Xbox, since there is an abundance of material on the net already covering this. However, if you're interested, please feel free to check out the following links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmod
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=215055
http://www.productwiki.com/microsoft_xbox/article/how_...
http://supmike.wordpress.com/xbox-softmod-guide/
http://www.techfreaks.org/articles/modxbox.shtml

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