The XBox as the Home Entertainment Media Hub 217
bigcitymike writes "Well it might be vaporware, but it appears Dreamix is trying to turn the Xbox into a PVR with a TV guide like scheduler. They also state PC as well as Mac/Linux support down the road. " Project Dreamix will turn the Microsoft Xbox into the ultimate home entertainment center."
I presume it requires a mod-chip installed." The xbox media player really goes a long way towards this goal already. MSFT may not be the friendliest of companies, but for $200, the x-box makes a helluva stereo component.
Yeah, but let's not forget (Score:2, Interesting)
where? (Score:3, Interesting)
Where is one supposed to get this add-on?
I dunno... (Score:5, Interesting)
What happens when I come back one night, sit down and get ready to watch the episode of Enterprise I missed... When I discover I forgot to put the Dreamix boot CD back in, and instead turned it off after playing MLB Slugfest last night?
I suppose it might be a good way to recycle the Xbox after one's moved on to newer and better consoles, but I think I'd prefer a dedicated PVR box.
The legally good thing (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:How could this work? (Score:2, Interesting)
The XBOX Hard drives don't have any "special chip". They just have different partitioning and use an HDD Key. As long as you have a modchip (which you probably do, if you want to run Dreamix, you can easily install your 120GB drive, format it to FATX, write the key to it, and reboot the XBOX. All new modchips support this.
Re:Why Xbox? (Score:1, Interesting)
1. Fact, The modchips come with the ability to be switched on/off and flash protected. Thus if you use Xbox live you can switch the chip off and MS will not realize it is modded. Also, with flash prtotection they can not flash your modchip.
2. Small disk can easily be fixed.
4. If you buy an Xbox and mod it. You can just go rent games and Save the games to your pc or extra large hardrive
I personally bought an xbox so I can pull movies off of my pc via smb and to play my region 2 DVD's. Since the mod chips defeat macrovision
bleeding-edge technology (Score:2, Interesting)
Can someone please explain to me how this is any sort of news whatsoever? I would venture to guess Im not the only one who has been using my already paid for home network and computers for video on demand, and all other 'features' of this so called media center.
What about networking, will it see my mounted SMB shares so I can access them form any location on my network. Does it have a remote, or do I have to sit in front of the tv with a MS joystick to use it? As far as I can see, hooking this up to my network, would be a giant step back to 1998.
Will it be a true media center and allow me to access a secure server by placing my public and accepted keys anywhere into it? Or is this just 'media' in terms of sit on your ass couch-potato stuff?
overall, nice concept ,far from novel, and way to expensive.
Sigh... (Score:2, Interesting)
Sigh... I get soooo tired of all people that thinks that the whole world is USA. Now, please tell me how I am gonna get a TiVO or Replay TV here in Sweden. Please do that.
Thank you!
PS. Not that I am planning to buy an xbox or anything, I will not support MS if I can avoid it (yes, you DO support MS if you buy one of those machines, even if they lose money selling them)