[mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
Fred Squires
fsquires at gmail.com
Wed May 4 18:39:09 UTC 2005
On 5/4/05, Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I've been looking for an economical way of setting up a couple
> frontends. I currently run a combo be/fe which has served me well for
> over a year. I though perhaps getting a couple used XBoxes would be a
> decent route. I've been skimming the archives and one thing that keeps
> popping up is a discussion/mention of versioning on the XBox. What is
> the easiest version of the XBox to mod to allow it to run mythtv? Does
> it require a hardware modification? How do the xboxes perform
> displaying SD TV encoded at 480x480? Any comments? Thanks for the feed
> back.
Right now i have a 1.4 XBox modded with an X-Ecuter 2.6 mod chip.
>From what I understand you can soft mod any of the XBoxes but the
1.0-1.5 are the easiest, so you might want to pick up a used one.
Anything from before 2004 should get you a pre 1.6 XBox, and the
manufacture date is on the bottom of the xbox.
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