Some creative modders over at Ask Metafilter are giving out great advice on how to turn the old Xbox into a cable TV replacement.
It seems if you mod the Xbox by installing the Xbox media center (xbmc) and then download your favorite shows to a networked PC, you can tell xbmc where the PC is on the network and then stream the video to your TV from your computer.
This according to one modder: “I can second matt on the modded XBox. It is f*cking fantastic. I've run a modded 'box as my downloaded-content-watcher of choice for about 2 years on a standard 29" TV and recently upgraded to a Panasonic HD LCD TV. I can categorically state that the quality of the content off the XBox is almost as good as a DVD (depending on the encoding).”
Pretty neat use for that old Xbox and with the amount of downloadable content just getting better and better, even those of us with cable are looking for ways to stream downloadable content to our TVs.
Between iTunes, In2TV and GUBA, cable’s starting to become obsolete.
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