Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject: XBMC vs XBOX 360
Does xbox media center have most of the features the xbox 360 will support? _________________
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:47 pm Post subject:
From what I've read, it's damn near a carbon copy. M$ never would have though of something like that, only the modding community could dream it up AND make it come true. Viva la modding!!! weee weee... et vous. Por qua? _________________ http://twitter.com/HQ_Shark2th
jhondra V.I.P. Member
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:18 pm Post subject:
From what I've seen, the XBox 360 will be no where NEAR as versitile as XBMC (won't support live streaming from your TIVO with .ty formats, and probably not Divx, MPG4 or XVID formats, because of liscensing issues and competing with their own WMV format). Sounds like early on, the XBMC team approached MS about trying to make it a legit app for the home media extender. Microsoft wouldn't even talk to them.
Microsoft has their own media formats to protect as well as royalties and resistance to Hollywood on some of this open digital copy protection. Those involved in the DirecTV Tivo hacking are familiar with how resistant the motion picture group and Hollywood is to something that is as cool as XBMC and whole house digital recording/streaming. At some point, it is too open to keep even thought of piracy down. If they can't close source it and keep you from getting access to the raw digital stream (HDCP or with encrypting), you will never see a big company do it, because they would be too large of a target for the MPG and Hollywood groups.
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rs6_n2o Xbox-Hq Genius Xbox Version: XBOX V1.0 Modded: Xenium ICE
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:26 pm Post subject:
f#&@ M$ and their lack of sweet formats _________________ XBOX
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noobsoftmodder Xbox-HQ Member
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:06 am Post subject:
Thats why im going with the PS3. _________________
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:30 pm Post subject:
The PS3 sucks. So does the Nintendo Revolution. Have you seen it's controller? A remote and a thumb anlalog stick, it looks like crap. I would never buy it. I heard the PS3 is going to be around $600.00 because of the new technology, the blue ray disk rom. And if I do buy one of the new systems, I'm going to wait a year until the price drops.
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:58 pm Post subject:
took the words right out of my mouth jhondra!!!
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