I have finally got back around to the whole xbox-as-a-media-center idea. It has been sitting near my computer pretty much collecting dust since about a month after I got it (glad I did not waste too much money on it). But over the last week or so, I decided I needed to get back to it.
It was easy enough to share movies and music over the network to the xbox. (There are some codec issues, but that a different story.) As I was setting that up, I decided that I wanted more, like Netflix on my xbox. Netflix led online media, which snowballed into something else. And eventually I got this:
My desktop, the server, my laptop, the xbox, and the tv...normally I don't have the tv and server there. While trying to get new stuff on the xbox, I decided to toss Windows Vista on the server since it can use the xbox as a media extender, so I brought the server in to install Vista. Then I got tired of switching cables back-and-forth on my monitor (amusingly, with all the computer crap I have, I don't have a kvm), so I brought the tv in. I don't think there can be any more computer stuff drug in from around the house for this project, but I will try.
