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is Windows Media center worth it??
hulkster:
well what if i wanted to upgrade my hd space, or whatever? im not a modder, and dont like soldering or anything. what happens if the power supply or something blows in the xbox? i have to go buy a new one. if a power supply in my pc blows, i can send it back to the manu, or take a spare that i already have.
my point is, i have better access to pc parts and repairs, than xbox stuff....plus i dont want to have to go through MS crappy support if i dont have to. not trying to be johnny negativity....but im not convinced that an xbmc is the way to go.
ChadTower:
There is no MS Support for a modded Xbox.
People can do a soft mod for you cheaply. Or you can do it yourself, it's far easier than setting up WMC. If you can't softmod an xbox you sure can't set up a network sufficient to run WMC properly.
hulkster:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 07, 2007, 11:19:46 am ---
There is no MS Support for a modded Xbox.
People can do a soft mod for you cheaply. Or you can do it yourself, it's far easier than setting up WMC. If you can't softmod an xbox you sure can't set up a network sufficient to run WMC properly.
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k, so you have currently several modded xbox's in your house hooked up to every tv? is that correct?
ChadTower:
I have one. Only need one, but setting up more than one isn't much harder than setting up one. Just a little more work to mod the extra Xbox. Anything else, like network setup, would need to be done (and with more difficult requirements) for WMC as well.
mcfreak:
--- Quote from: hulkster on August 07, 2007, 10:40:51 am ---
--- Quote from: mcfreak on August 07, 2007, 10:06:57 am ---I love my Vista Media Center, It has 3 tuners, one HD, two analogs connected to Digital Cable boxes. The power it gives you over a tivo/Digital Cable DVR box is the "Other" stuff. I have Xbox 360's in the bedrooms and media room that "extend" the interface to those areas. I can watch live TV on all three TV's using a central machine. It will also extend HD to the other rooms which is the only device I am aware of that can do that.
I also have a 1.5 Terabyte NAS in a server closet that has all my digital media (Movies, Music, TV Shows) that are shared across all TV's in the house. There is a great add-on freeware program called My Movies: http://www.mymoves.name that will automatically get all the cover art for your movies, titles, description, actors, etc and you can play them from the interface. So instead of having to go find DVD 382 in my collection, I can rip it down, tie it to my movies, and watch it by pressing a few buttons on the remote.
Here is an example of the interface:
http://www.mymovies.name/screenshots/windows-vista-media-center.aspx
Also, don't forget about the MAME interface for Media Center :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:
http://www.push-a-button.com.au/products/mce/vista/emucenter/index.php
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whoa dude! thats awesome! so you wait....you have one media center pc and you run that feed to all of your tvs in your house??? hows that possible without a pc at every tv? are you like...hooking your wmc pc up at the initial cable feed coming into your house, and then just having all your tvs run off that? i guess im confused as to how you can get all your tv's to display shared stuff. or is that what you have the 360s for? thats a crazy amount of hardware. i only have 2 tv's and an office/gaming pc that i use. if i could stream the wmc content to my other tv and to my pc in my office, that would sweet. i have most of the hardware for the wmc pc cept for the tuner card (suggestions?). but what else would i need?
and again, is this even worth it? i can either upgrade my tivo to an hd tivo for $299 + $199 transfer fee of lifetime subscription....or get a media center pc. what do you think?
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If you JUST want to Record TV than a DVR/Tivo is your ticket. If you want fully integrated guides and access all of your content from any room, than you can go the Server (Vista Media Center) / Client (Xbox 360) route.
It's worth it for the "other" stuff. Read this: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/extender/default.mspx
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