Like a teenage kid with a genius IQ who is addicted to video games, Microsoft's Xbox offers a lot of untapped potential. THG downloads a version of Xbox Media Center software and installs it on an Xbox mod from FriendTech to show just what the game console is capable of.
"The ideal home playback system for audio and video has yet to appear-at least that was our conclusion up until now. While some designed-for-the-living-room multimedia DVD players may support emerging standards such as Xvid, only a very few also offer a network connection and the requisite codecs to download and play the numerous different multimedia file types that are often required for video and gaming applications. And of course, these systems do not offer game play capabilities that the Xbox offers."
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