So, Denis came over and worked his elfin magic and put XBMC on my well-out-of-warranty Xbox. A little bit of faq-scanning, trial and error, and a lot of bugging Denis on the instant messenger later, and the fun is finally beginning.
Last night, I forgot to tape Lost. Well, actually, I set the VCR to timer record while out eating 50cent legs at BW3, but I forgot to turn the VCR off so it would start recording. I have often offered to grab a missed episode off the ‘net and screen it for the wife, but have always had to find a VCD version, burn it to a disc, and hook up Abbey’s DVD player, which is one of the remarkably accomodating kinds that will play pretty much any kind of disc, to the TV, so we could watch an extra-grainy version of, say, the Big Brother 4 finale. But today, I pulled down a copy of last night’s “Lost” while out of the house at work, and tonight followed these fairly simple instructions [but not to the letter] to make a couple of directories available to the Xbox. A few minutes later we were watching it! Like a jerry rigged Video-On-Demand.
The picture quality was great, if just a smidge blocky in the dark scenes, and the 50-foot ethernet cable doesn’t really fit with the decor in either my den or the living room. So this won’t exactly replace the VCR for us, but it’s nice to catch the shows that occasionally slip through the cracks.
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