[mythtv-users] How does MythTV w/Xbox client on XBMC compare toMCE 2005 ?

[Greg Mitchell]

> [RANT] An alternative would be to use a hacked BIOS (EvolutionX or
> others) but I don't really like that idea so I've pretty much given up
> on making this XBox useful in the short term. Hacked BIOS's are great
> for kids playing games but it's my opinion, and only my opinion, that
> adults shouldn't go down that path. I *think* you could make a new
> XBox work with EvoX but I decided not to spend my time on it and am
> now looking into some sort of mini/micro-ATX platform as a quiet
> frontend only machine.[/RANT]

I understand that your views on IP rights differ from mine, but they're 
not so far apart as you might think.  My view is that using a hacked 
bios isn't wrong because I have the right to use the original bios that 
was hacked in the first place (know what I mean?)  Yes, the people who 
hacked it broke the DMCA or whatever law to modify the thing, but 
honestly, I paid for the hardware, I paid for the bios, why can't I use 
a modified version of that bios.  I think that is only fair.

That's not to say that I support a lot of the things that hacked bioses 
are used for - game piracy and the like.  Those things are wrong wrong 
wrong.  I don't use my xbox for that, even though it's technically able 
with the bios that's installed.  I suspect there are a lot of people out 
there in the same boat as me, though we're clearly in the minority on 
the "xbox-scene"

It would be great to be able to use cromwell, and avoid all the 
potential pitfalls, but as you know, that's not an option for those of 
us with 1.6 boxen.

I don't view using my hardware to do the legal things I want it to do as 
illegal, immoral or childish.

Greg