On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 17:46 -0500, sean darcy wrote: > >This may not be what you are looking for but if you buy an xbox and its > >component adaptor you will get a hdtv frontend for about $200-$250 > >depending > >on modchip. > > I see that xbox has a component adapter. But how does the rest of this work? > I have another machine that has the hd3000, and then what...? How do I > connect to the xbox? I assume this is the modchip. What's that? Where do I > get it?
The modchip mentioned is a chip that can be build into your xbox to allow it to run non-signed software, such as linux. Microsoft doesn't allow this by default, since they make money on selling xbox games, and want you to buy those instead of only using the xbox as a nice myth frontend. Note that you can hack most xbox's without installing a modchip, but this is a bit less flexible that a modchip. See www.xbox-linux.org for some more info on getting linux to run on an xbox. You can find more about running Myth on the xbox on http://bit.blkbk.com/ (and in particular the forums at http://bit.blkbk.com/phpBB2/ ). You should note that though the xbox has a component out, and can run hdtv resolutions, I'm not sure it can actually handle displaying/decoding 720p/1080i content fast enough. (I haven't got any hardware to siplay those resolutions...) Wouter
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