2004-12-14, 12:00
first of all, let me state that xbmc is great. no doubt about it
second, everyone is entitled to have their own opinion,
i hope for you guys that the xbox1 still has a long life, but i doubt it.
reasons for this in my opinion:
- the xbox2 is probably much more secure. remember m$ is losing money on every xbox sold. they business plan is to make money with the games. so their primary goal is preventing that these can be copied
-the playstation3 is coming. from what i heard, it runs a modified linux and seems to be far more open/accessable then the xbox2
-devs like new gadgets. so when the playstation3 comes out and its 'open' you will see devs moving to this console
-lets say the xbox2 can be modded and you can develop your own software for it. then its still very hard to port xbmc to the xbox2. reason: the xbox2 contains a risc processor
this means that all this optimized mmx,sse code used/borrowed from the mplayer group is useless on the xbox2. and its very very hard write your own!
-2005 is going to be the year of the htpc. everywhere you look you see mediacenters appearing. either in pc's, dvd-recorders, sattelite receivers. i expect that m$ will release a mce extender for their xbox2 so maybe you guys could use that
frodo
second, everyone is entitled to have their own opinion,
i hope for you guys that the xbox1 still has a long life, but i doubt it.
reasons for this in my opinion:
- the xbox2 is probably much more secure. remember m$ is losing money on every xbox sold. they business plan is to make money with the games. so their primary goal is preventing that these can be copied
-the playstation3 is coming. from what i heard, it runs a modified linux and seems to be far more open/accessable then the xbox2
-devs like new gadgets. so when the playstation3 comes out and its 'open' you will see devs moving to this console
-lets say the xbox2 can be modded and you can develop your own software for it. then its still very hard to port xbmc to the xbox2. reason: the xbox2 contains a risc processor
this means that all this optimized mmx,sse code used/borrowed from the mplayer group is useless on the xbox2. and its very very hard write your own!
-2005 is going to be the year of the htpc. everywhere you look you see mediacenters appearing. either in pc's, dvd-recorders, sattelite receivers. i expect that m$ will release a mce extender for their xbox2 so maybe you guys could use that
frodo