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Get Ready For Divx On Xbox
donnacha points to this ZDNet story which says that hackers have built a Divx player for Xbox. "As previously discussed ( Divx - The Real Xbox Killer App), the ability to play reasonably high-quality films, speedily burned onto inexpensive CDR media, is going to make (modded) Xbox ownership a far more attractive proposition. This will take Divx beyond the desktops of those with broadband connections and into the living rooms of those who don't own computers. Expect to see a resurgence of Xbox sales and much confusion in MS as to whether or not this is a good thing."
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As it happens, I've been looking into small form factor / silent pcs for playing DivXs, and I can't justify the cost. The K6/500 I'm using now is maxed out, a bit too noisy, and won't play all the movies I have. Plus it won't fit in the armoire. If I can get a $200 box to do what I want (with a modchip, ok), that'll fit in with the other stuff & not have a bunch of fan noise, I'll get it. If I can play games on it that's fine too, but I really don't care about games too much. Maybe my daughter will like it when she's a bit older.
Too bad I have any mod points right now man.
As previously discussed? You link to a comment to a mildly related story from a few weeks ago, and try to pass that off as a story. However, it's not just any old comment; it's one you made yourself!
I understand you concerns but, overall, I have to disagree. The reason that I wrote the original comment was because no professional journalistic source had spotted the trend I wanted to discuss. If they had I would have saved myself a lot of time and trouble and simply linked to them. Now that one of the most important elements of that prediction has come into being, I thought it was important to submit the Zdnet story along with the context provided by my original comment. I'm sure that the /. submissions editors have their own reservations about featuring comments but in this case they agreed with me that the context was necessary.
Another thing to remember is that the thoughts coming out of our heads are no less valid than the thoughts produced by professional pundits. In fact, they get most of there content by trawling through highly-rated comments on /. and other forums. They generally work to tight deadlines and often don't have a very deep understanding of the issues. I've often seen my original thoughts reproduced in articles a few days later, sometimes with laughable mistakes or misinterpretations included. But this is all part of how information and ideas flow through our culture.
I would urge anyone who want to add to the quality of the discussions here to link freely both to journalistic sources and the comments of your peers here and on other forums.
And, it's written 'DivX'. Ha! I just linked to myself! I'm so cool!
That's exactly want I mean, you just added to the quality of the discussion by linking to yourself.
But the machine fucking sucks.
I bought it, I finished Halo. It hasn't been turned on since (close to 3 months.)
My GameCube on the other hand...
(By the way, I think people in India and China have other things to worry about -- they're not going to buy an XBox when they need some food.)
Hahaha, lateral thinking :D