Turning Black Xbox into a Media Center

FooAtari wrote:
> Might be selling my 360, but I use the Media Center functionality a lot.
> Then I read that there is a Media Center Extender Kit for the old Xbox.
> Assuming I can find the software at a decent price this could be a very
> cheap way to build a media center and I can sell the Xbox.
>
> So has anyone done this? I stream video and msuci to the PC. Can the old
> xbox output in HD? Are there component cables available for it?
>
> Ta

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.

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