Move over DVD...

[lostcarpark]

Why have a DVD player, when a modded XBox running XBox Media Center could be so much better?

I really like the idea of being able to play all the video I have on my computer on the TV, without having to have a big noisy PC sitting next to it.

Comments

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Do you mean it's noisy as a DVD player, or noisy in its own right (e.g. fan noise)?

Apparently the XBox can output to a surround sound amp with the right adapter (though it would be nicer if the device came with standard connectors). What I'm especially interested in is being able to play media on the PC network. It would also be cool if it could do video recorder type stuff, but I don't think that's on offer.

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Fan noise, the DVD part itself is pretty quiet.

I can't be sure, but I think we had it connected to the surround sound, but it was a lot of buggering about if we wanted to change from the Xbox back to Sky. Or something - I must have switched off when Chris was talking about it :)

Chris actually had it streaming the wedding photos direct from his PC the other night...dead impressive.

[btd.livejournal.com]

:)

The XBOX noise is purely fan. Ours is a 1.0 XBOX, which has an additional VPU fan, which is rather noisy. The fan can be replaced with a quieter one or silenced with a heat sync. Tutorials for this are on xbox-scene (www.xbox-scene.com)

It's not connected to the surround amp atm, as the amp only had one optical in, and I figured we use sky more :) I will connect it via regular phono's when I can be bothered :O)

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what he said :p