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Strangely what you buy when buying blue-ray disk.. the right to watch the movie your see fit or the right to watch the movie on a standalone blue-ray or one put in windows machine? Why open source should not be able to play blue-ray?
Nobody is scared of drm, frankly people a scared because they are restricted how to use what they pay for..
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Well it would be ok to say they stop developing for the Xbox if there
is a device that lets me play "everything" (incl. 1080p flawless),
requires zero administration to get stuff (audio/video etv) running,
boots in 15 seconds, and of course runs xbmc native or through linux(dont have windows, dont need windows).
I been thinking replacing my xbox either, but after reading these forums I havent found something where I would say "thats it". When I read that we need 2x3GHZ to run HD content, having trouble getting the audio output running and setting up such a system does take hours/weekends and 800€ I am
willing to wait until something shows up thats more userfriendly.
I had an HTPC for some time, doing linux for 10 years etc. But i dont want to
spent my free time seting up such a system, so until something shows up, i stay with the old 700Mhz,64MB,42character bitch that still beats it.
so long
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Windows, Linux, Mac, all platforms that it need to be support in my opinion.
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I think the latest version of XBMC for XBOX is enough for Xbox unless a genius can handle Xbox's GPU capability as maximum. But I don't think that will be happened without MS & NVIDIA's information expose.
So I think developing for big3 platform should have more priority then Xbox...
I love Xbox XBMC and will use my box can boot...
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2009-01-13, 15:52
(This post was last modified: 2009-01-13, 15:58 by junk.)
Without having read the thread, I'll state my opiniion: No, I don't. To me it seems the requirements for Xbox (concerning both hardware and software) is setting unnecessary limits for the other platforms.
EDIT: Wasn't the whole Team MediaPortal project started due to a developer leaving the XBMC project because of the Xbox's limitations, or have I got that wrong?
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Welp I know it doesn't matter either way, but I'll throw it out there.
I bought the Xbox360 because I got tired of trying to play the upgrade war to play the newest and greatest games.
I installed XBMC into my old retired Xbox becuase it works and it works very well. There are no hardware upgrades to make on a constant basis other than storage.
If somebody can point me to a PC based system that does the same thing as an Xbox with the remote and boots up super fast I'll give it a go since the Xbox does lack a few things like web browsing and some other things. However I will cry as I retire my Xbox.
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I know about 40 people using XBMC. 39 of those people have an xbox. 1 person is running an AppleTV.
I tried to migrate to a linux box running XBMC, but the bootup time alone was a big downer. I'm sure there are ways to improve that, but I don't really want to make a project out of it... I just want to watch tv.
To me, the XBOX is the simplist and cheapest existing solution. I hope support remains until someone can come up with an off-the-shelf solution that handles HDTV and costs under $200.
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2009-01-18, 04:00
(This post was last modified: 2009-01-18, 04:18 by kissiel.)
That's the point. I've wrote long post some pages before about XBox. I understand decision about decreasing support for this platform and I'm very thankful to Arnova to his contribution. Although I'm very sad...
The big problem with other ports are hardware compatibility issues. Before I've discovered XBMC I used MediaPortal. It was nice solution, but even if my computer was not very old at that time, it was sometimes very sluggish. The other thing was stability - sometimes it was crashing and occassionally after installing windows updates some features stopped working (like DVD playback).
I've installed Windows port of XBMC on my notebook and comparing to XBox port is far too unstable. I know that this port doesn't exist as long as XBox one, but I think it's the big problem with shitty drivers or chipsets which will never disappear. It was exacly the same problem as I had with Media Portal.
Gooid ideas are "reference" platform for PC which would be "certified" or recommended to run this software best way. Especially Live version of the software, which I think is the brightest future of this project - it doesn't need licensed OS and it works "out of the box".
Other option is to find console which can replace our good, black, square XBox coffin - I've just found the thread about it:-)