1) It runs on the clunky old ugly, noisy XBox 1, which without heavy modification from Xecuter can't be turned on and off via remote control.
2) It can't function wirelessly without a bridge, which in general can be unreliable and a pain to configure, especially for networks with security measures.
3) The XBox's power lacks the juice to decode h.264 at a decent resolution, among other things. It's an XviD champ, but it's not equipped to handle higher-def format.
And once again, for the style conscious, the XBox is ugly and noisy. XBMC is the greatest media center app ever developed without a doubt, but its developers closed-minded reliance on one platform has limited its functionality in age. It blows away MCE2005 and especially that abortion that Vista calls a Media Center, but its limitations are derived from its usability ONLY on an aged, piece of crap console.
Personally, after being addicted to XBMC for quite a while, and I still use it in my bedrom, I've switched off for my main room, to a Mac Mini Core Duo with Wireless-N hooked into my 42" plasma running Front Row with the latest SVN build of Perian. FR has some design flaws, but all in all, with a high capacity of digital media to stream, it does its job like a champ with pretty much everything that's thrown at it, and just as importantly, the Mini is dead silent, tiny, and incredibly attractive.
If they manage to hack ATV to take quicktime components, namely Perian, I'm in feet first.
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XBMC has some significant flaws, though.
1) It runs on the clunky old ugly, noisy XBox 1, which without heavy modification from Xecuter can't be turned on and off via remote control.
2) It can't function wirelessly without a bridge, which in general can be unreliable and a pain to configure, especially for networks with security measures.
3) The XBox's power lacks the juice to decode h.264 at a decent resolution, among other things. It's an XviD champ, but it's not equipped to handle higher-def format.
And once again, for the style conscious, the XBox is ugly and noisy. XBMC is the greatest media center app ever developed without a doubt, but its developers closed-minded reliance on one platform has limited its functionality in age. It blows away MCE2005 and especially that abortion that Vista calls a Media Center, but its limitations are derived from its usability ONLY on an aged, piece of crap console.
Personally, after being addicted to XBMC for quite a while, and I still use it in my bedrom, I've switched off for my main room, to a Mac Mini Core Duo with Wireless-N hooked into my 42" plasma running Front Row with the latest SVN build of Perian. FR has some design flaws, but all in all, with a high capacity of digital media to stream, it does its job like a champ with pretty much everything that's thrown at it, and just as importantly, the Mini is dead silent, tiny, and incredibly attractive.
If they manage to hack ATV to take quicktime components, namely Perian, I'm in feet first.