[mythtv] XBox as a Frontend

[Matt Thompson]

This may or may not float  your boat as well:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3001124538&category=203
85

Its a LCD for the xbox...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Hack" <christianh at pdd.edmi.com.au>
To: <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 7:05 AM
Subject: [mythtv] XBox as a Frontend


> Firstly great work Isaac and others. I only joined and began using Myth
> about 3 months ago.
>
> Has anyone out there tried to use (or considered) an XBox as a frontend
> only? P3 733 odd should be plenty enough grunt for simply decoding only.
> Graphics should be good enough given that it is roughly a Geforce 2.
Pretty
> cheap and wouldn't look too out of place in the average home entertainment
> system. Probably the biggest limitation will be that it only has 64M of
RAM.
> Mandrake 9 is available too.
>
> Gets around some of the noise issues with regular PCs too although I know
> people who think even the Xbox fan is too loud.
>
> Of course you need a mod chip at the moment as well, but I don't see that
as
> much of show stopper.
>
> Off to see if I can find a cheap 2nd hand XBox.... I think I'm going to
give
> it a go either way.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
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