RE: Great application for the X-Box
- From: "John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)" <johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'[ISAserver.org Discussion List]'" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:53:35 -0700
And what does this have to do with Microsoft ISA server?
John T
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From: walter mark [mailto:walter_3_d@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 5:11 AM
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Subject: [isalist] Great application for the X-Box
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I just setup a Pluto Home system (smarthome + media server, plutohome.com,
free open source). It's really cool. It has a streaming movie server, music
server, pvr. Plus it does home automation and controls a/v equipment too.
There's only 1 problem.
You designate 1 PC to be the server; they call it the core. It exposes a
network boot image for any other PC in the house, so your PC becomes dual
purpose-normal pc, or net boot and it's a set top box. You control it with
Bluetooth mobile phones or web pads. And all the set top boxes in the house
work together. Your media even follows you as you move from room to room if
you keep the phone on. The problem is I don't have enough media pc's for all
the rooms in my house, and buying a full PC for each room is too expensive.
Plus there's no video cards for the PC that have component video
output-which is the only way I can get HDTV into my tv.
The X-Box seems perfect as a media director. It's a PC inside, right? So why
couldn't it boot like normal as an Xbox, or net boot as a pluto media
director? Then it would be part of a whole house solution that did
everything. I could even use the Xbox to turn on my sprinklers if I wanted,
and do all sorts of stuff with it. Plus, since Pluto gives it a network boot
image, space is no longer an issue-all the software could be stored on the
main server. And the XBox has component video and it's quiet and cheap.
Does anybody have an idea if it would be possible to use the XBox as a media
director like that, doing a network boot? Then I could just buy a few of the
XBox's rather than having to buy regular PC's.
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