LordPantera
09-17-2001, 05:39 PM
As a happy owner of Turtle Beach's AudioTron MP3 player, I am constantly looking for new cooler toys like it. I am hoping the XBox will turn out to be a great addition to my toy box by allowing folks to write software for the XBox so that the XBox will be able to fill in the missing link area of my home entertainment system. I want software for the XBox that will allow me to play media files (MP3, AVI, DVD, VCD, ASF, etc) from my home computer storage systems, and from the Internet (exactly like the AudioTron, but with the advantage of video too).
After having surfed the Net all afternoon looking for such indications that people are thinking like me, what I am amazed at is how little dicussion there is of these types of uses of the XBox. Agreed probably 99% of you all are gamers only, but most friends of mine have the same mindset in that we are looking for the cool uses of having a highly functional and customizable system that will put out DTS digital sound and HDTV signals to our huge home theater systems, but efficiently playing 'on-demand' the media that we have built up on our computer hard drives via our home LANs.
Anyone out there thinking the same things??? Or is this the wrong site to be asking this question?
After having surfed the Net all afternoon looking for such indications that people are thinking like me, what I am amazed at is how little dicussion there is of these types of uses of the XBox. Agreed probably 99% of you all are gamers only, but most friends of mine have the same mindset in that we are looking for the cool uses of having a highly functional and customizable system that will put out DTS digital sound and HDTV signals to our huge home theater systems, but efficiently playing 'on-demand' the media that we have built up on our computer hard drives via our home LANs.
Anyone out there thinking the same things??? Or is this the wrong site to be asking this question?