Slashdot Mirror
More on Future X-Box Capabilities
rtphokie writes "The oft - rumored expansion of Microsoft's Xbox from a gaming console to a more full featured entertainment hub is taking a little more shape. A C|Net article tells of a HomeStation device which is claimed to be slated for a fall release. In addition to Xbox game compatibility and DVD functionality, it is reported to have TiVo/UltimateTV like PVR functionality as well as WebTV like email and web surfing capabilities.
This "report" comes on the heels of the announcement of the Moxi Digital set-top MoxiMedia Center which was named "Best of Show" at the recent Consumer Electronics Show."
I also hear that you can hook up the clapper to it.
Clap off, clap on....Ever claped a BSOD?
Neck_of_the_Woods
#/usr/local/surf/glassy/overhead
someone actually came out and called that "Modified Pentium 3" what it really is...
Mosesmann said the HomeStation will be based on the Xbox design, which is similar to a PC and uses standard PC components such as an Intel Celeron processor and USB ports.
Homestation. If you listen real close, you can hear Sony's lawyers suiting up...
Shift happens. Fire it up.
Well as we all know, open source is unamerican so you can't, in good conscience, use open source software. So Linux, BSD, etc, are right out.
You could use a proprietary Unix but that's 70's era technology. You don't want to be using something that out of date.
There's a couple little oddities like BeOS out there but those don't have any software for them and they are doomed so why waste your money.
You could go with MacOS, but as we all know Steve Jobs isn't a techie and is therefor unqualified to be the figurehead for any product worth buying.
So your only reasonable choice is to go with Windows.
This sig has been temporarily disconnected or is no longer in service
In addition to Xbox game compatibility and DVD functionality, it is reported to have TiVo/UltimateTV like PVR functionality as well as WebTV like email and web surfing capabilities.
What about the rumored mind control capabilities? ... oh, TV ... never mind.
Toronto-area transit rider? Rate your ride.
"Old man yells at systemd"
Who here started to read the article:
"Prudential Securities analyst Hans Mosesmann, who covers graphics chip..."
And thought, "huh?...Hans Moleman?"
I can't help but picture the futuristic house: a .net passport to access your house, then you use MS voice recognition to start your X-box controlled blender ("start blender") and it opens the start menu on your tivo. You go to the bathroom and realise that the toilet paper was used up by the MS house maid when the washing machine crashed because some idiot DOSed it. No problem, the X-Box terminal in the bathroom has already sent a message through MSN to MS toilet HQ, and the delivery is on the way.
Then some script kiddie uses a widely-known-but-little-repaired-exploit (TM) and bluescreens your house. You have to go down to the basement (again!), unplug the internet cable, unplug the power cable, short the solders on your Microsoft House BIOS, reinstall House XP 2005...
wazoo....
Imperium et libertas
Autocracy and freedom
> No, it has a better controller
I must disagree with this, because while the NGC contoller fits like a glove for me, the XBox controller is like some sort of awkward chunk of plastic, desgined by sadistic Nazi scientists to twist my hands into misshapen claws that would scare children and cause soda pop to go flat.
Of course, YMMV, but I like fizzy soda pop!
I can't help thinking about Jon Katz's artice about iMacs yesterday. I think his point was that Apple should abandon their strategy of trying to create a digital hub for entertainment, and instead be more like Microsoft? Hmmmmm....
"I am a cipher, a cipher, wrapped in an enigma, smothered in secret sauce" -Jimmy James