Media centre - great (they need to actually build a program that works this
way...no not that music mixer, or that new video thing only for media centre
pc's).

The Xbox however, has never been a high-spec pc - less than 1ghz processor,
puny amounts of ram...

"Dan White" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > Baring in mind how cheap a real PC is with all the capability for
> > configuration and expansion vs. a modded/hacked Xbox. Why bother ?
>
> Well a few years back when mod-chips were first out it was a really cheap
> way to get a heavily subsidised high-spec PC. Even now with the reduced
> price of the console it's still pretty good value. It's also kinda cool to
> have an xbox "media centre" under the TV.
>
> I've seen a friend of mine set his up this way and it was great at
parties.
> Music videos and loads of MP3 playing, streamed from a server elsewhere in
> the house. It also means you don't have to have *another* box near the TV,
> and it's fairly quiet too.
>
>
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