Hello

Having finally got my X-Box chipped by someone who knows what he is doing (i.e. not me!) I must say that it's an amazing machine, and I haven't even loaded any, erm, "backup" games yet.

What I have done is transfered some DivX movies from my PC and they play perfectly on my TV, and played Project Gotham II. Wow.

Next on the list is to replace the hard drive...

Steve.

 

I did mine myself, I saw some of yur posts over on the other forums

XBox Media Player is just awsome!

The sooner mine arrives the better! I only have about 350Mb left on mine!

 

You got sorted them Ian

PGR2 loads soooo much faster from the HDD

 

errr, am I being thick..... why don't you just play the videos on your PC instead? Has to be much better spec'd than an X-Box?

(for info I have an X-Bpx and think it's great, playing games etc on it)

 

Because its more sociable than sitting in front of your PC ?

Do you watch DVD's on your PC ? Personally, I prefer the comfort of my living room Its handy to be able to stream video and audio from the PC upstairs to the TV downstairs.

 

some of my divx cd's play better in my xbox than they do my pc

 

but you could get a DVD player for the price of the DVD remote you need for the XBox?

 

But a cheap DVD player won't play ac3, aac, nfo, pls, rm, sc, mpa, wav, wma, ogg, mp3, mp2, m3u, cue nfo, rm, m3u, ifo, mov, qt, divx, xvid, bivx, vob, pva, wmv, asf, asx, ogm, m2v, avi, bin, dat, mpg, mpeg, mkv, avc, vp3, svq3, nuv, viv, dv, fli, ty, tmf png, jpg, jpeg, bmp, gif, ico, tif, tiff, tga, pcx.



[Edited by DJ Dunk - 12/22/2003 11:13:24 AM]

 

A cheap player might not be able to play all those formats, but then again why would you want to?

 

Being an inanimate object I doubt very much that it would want to. I and other human beings, on the other hand, find it very useful.

Friends come over and you want to show them photos and videos ? Use the X-Box. Want to browse your movie or MP3 collection from your living room ? Use the X-Box . . . need I go on ?

 

I burn them onto dvd and make dvd movies / slideshows with scene selections etc.

Nope.

I only use mp3s at work for something to listen to on the computer whilst I'm coding away. Mp3s encoded at even the highest bitrate aren't as good quality as cd, so if I want to listen to something at home I use the original cd or sacd.

I must admit I'm tempted to get a second xbox, and chip it so that I can play the emulated games on the big telly though...

 

Please don't....

 

Why?

 

Iain - Thats nice. Happy media burning. Merry Christmas.

 

FYI i think the largest drive the BIOS will support is 147Gb.

Dave

 

thats incorrect, it used to be 137 max but there is now a workaround to enable larger hdd's

 

Hobo's right, the size limit has been cracked. Most of the latest bioses support have the LBA48 hack implemented. Which means you can now use any size HDD

 

someing stupid like 2000 gig is the max, may be bigger.

 

Cool !! Didnt know that, will have to "borrow" a disk from work i think. I am sure an IDE disk failed in one of the PCs on my desk...

 

Yup! Now I am just waiting on my HDD to arrive.