Re: [Nolug] Media box

Yeah well the xbox is half the price and it has decent games too. ;)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bart Pittari <pittari@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:26:21
To: <nolug@nolug.org>
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Media box


Wouldn't a PS3 do close to what you're looking to accomplish? It's got
Blu-Ray, an on-board hard drive, wireless, can have Linux installed and USB
ports and also has capability (from what a friend told me) to be a music and
media server.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Chris Jones <techmaster@gmail.com> wrote:

> I do this at home. I started with my windows box, then built a linux file
> server running samba. Now, I've got 2.3tb in my mac pro and probably
> another tb in a vista box, and I share all hdd's at the root level. I then
> have an original xbox with a mod chip, running xbmc. With it, I can browse
> into any smb share. I'll have a directory like DVDs, open it up, and it's
> full of iso's. Xbmc will open the iso and mount it virtually over then lan,
> as if I had put the dvd in the drive. What's even more amazing, is if you
> have an iso that is rar'd up, xbmc will open the rar and the iso within it,
> and stream that as well. You can also do the same thing with mp3s,
> pictures, etc... It works perfect and the xbox has component video and
> optical audio out.
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Mischa D. Krilov" <rossum@gmail.com>
>
> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:48:34
> To: <nolug@nolug.org>
> Subject: [Nolug] Media box
>
>
> Hi, gang.
>
> In the best of all possible worlds, I want to archive all of my
> existing DVDs to a box with a fat hard drive and watch any of them on
> a TV at whim - including DVD menus and extra content - using only a
> remote control. At this point in time, I'm less interested in
> capturing a TV signal, but I suspect I'll tie into Hulu or Netflix
> somehow.
>
> Anyone have any experience with MythTV, Freevo, Geexbox, or know of
> any alternatives that I should consider? I'm not adverse to buying
> hardware, or reimaging an old Xbox or choosing wildly different
> software than what I've mentioned.
>
> Mischa
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