Further thoughts on XBox
Mar. 24th, 2002 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerWell, not entirely further thoughts. Many of these thoughts occured to me before I got to use one.
I'm not paying £300 for an XBox. I'll happily pay £150 in a couple of years. £300 is just too big a chunk of change to slap down. It does a chunk of what I'd want for £300, but not quite all.
I would pay £300 for a box that played games, stored music, played DVDs, recorded TV and acted a a file store. The XBox does the first fantastically (although there's not enough games available yet, I'm sure there will be with time). It does the second, but only in its own format. This is fine for a non-connected box, but no use at all for something that's networkable. It plays DVDs, but only region 2 ones (my actual DVD is regionhacked, and has been since 12 seconds after I first plugged it in). It doesn't record TV at all, which is a great shame, because a combination XBox Tivo would worth selling a kidney for. Maybe one of Joe's. And it's not a file store, which considering it's got a hard disk and a network socket, is a great shame.
If you could combine an XBox, a Rio Central and a Tivo in the one box (and they're all basically PCs, so it wouldn't be impossible), then I'd be queuing up to buy one.
I'm not paying £300 for an XBox. I'll happily pay £150 in a couple of years. £300 is just too big a chunk of change to slap down. It does a chunk of what I'd want for £300, but not quite all.
I would pay £300 for a box that played games, stored music, played DVDs, recorded TV and acted a a file store. The XBox does the first fantastically (although there's not enough games available yet, I'm sure there will be with time). It does the second, but only in its own format. This is fine for a non-connected box, but no use at all for something that's networkable. It plays DVDs, but only region 2 ones (my actual DVD is regionhacked, and has been since 12 seconds after I first plugged it in). It doesn't record TV at all, which is a great shame, because a combination XBox Tivo would worth selling a kidney for. Maybe one of Joe's. And it's not a file store, which considering it's got a hard disk and a network socket, is a great shame.
If you could combine an XBox, a Rio Central and a Tivo in the one box (and they're all basically PCs, so it wouldn't be impossible), then I'd be queuing up to buy one.
