FooAtari

Resident Drunk <askmeforit@spam.com> wrote in
news:5bnpgeF2tigpuU1@mid.individual.net:


>
> The media centre extender is only available for an NTSC Xbox so unless
> you have one you will need to modify yours. If you are going to do
> this then you might as well use the free and infinitely superior XBMC.
>
> I assume you mean stream videos and music *from* the PC. The answer is
> yes.
>
> Yes you can get a HD cable but if you use the extender it does not
> support any resolutions other that NTSC (480i) which looks **** in
> hi-def. XBMC supports Hi-def output and will upscale anything to 720p
> or 1080i with the HiDef cable (you do need to patch your XB to NTSC
> first).
>
> The only thing that MCE does that XBMC doesn't is support TV, however
> this can be added by various mods to the vanilla build, in every other
> way XBCM blows MCE out of the water.
>
>

I dont need TV. Sky is connected to the same telly. I totally forgot
about XBMC. Cheets