[ciphergoth]

I have a MythTV machine in the living room, but I want to be able to watch TVs and other videos in my bedroom. I've got a small TV; unfortunately at the moment I can't afford even the £100 for a cheap media streamer. Is there a way I can do it for under £50? I have an old PS2 (non-slimline), and it looks like I could pick up an XBox (not a 360, an original XBox) for very little on EBay, but everything I can find in my Google searches seems to indicate that I need a mod chip, and it looks like no-one sells those for these obsolete platforms any more.

I can program and administer a Linux system; I've never been very good at soldering but I've occasionally had success. I'm in London.

Thanks!

[Stelph]

You can generally get an already modded (soft mod or otherwise) Xbox with XBMC for under £50 to be honest!

Ive seen this plugin that makes XBMC work as a frontend to your MythTv setup

mythbox - Project Hosting on Google Code

[Stelph]

An example post here on AvForums in the classifieds section, note that you can get one with quite a large Hard Drive for £50!

http://www.avforums.com/forums/gamin...-huge-hdd.html

[ciphergoth]

Originally Posted by Stelph

You can generally get an already modded (soft mod or otherwise) Xbox with XBMC for under £50 to be honest!

Ive seen this plugin that makes XBMC work as a frontend to your MythTv setup

mythbox - Project Hosting on Google Code

Hmm, not having much luck finding them, an eBay search for "xbmc" gives me no hits, should I be looking elsewhere?

Is it OK to use the XBox 360 classified section here for non-360 related requests? Silly question, I see that people use the top-level forum for these things.

thanks!