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Stuart · 02-09-2010, 10:39

I have to admit, I got lucky. They were getting rid of a few old Shuttle boxes from work. I was able to nab one, get a Geforce 6 graphics card (I needed a half-height AGP card for the machine, and this was the most powerful I could find) and install Xbox Media Centre on it.

Does a lovely job of streaming pretty much any media from my NAS.

It's physically bigger than the Apple TV, but considerably smaller than the v+ it sits next to. It doesn't do HDMI, but that's not a problem as I only have an SD TV set. It does have a 160 gig HDD, so I can store a fair bit of media on it even without the NAS, and I did get it for next to nothing (the machine was free, the GFX card was £40).

02-09-2010, 10:39	#1517
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: The iPhone thread I have to admit, I got lucky. They were getting rid of a few old Shuttle boxes from work. I was able to nab one, get a Geforce 6 graphics card (I needed a half-height AGP card for the machine, and this was the most powerful I could find) and install Xbox Media Centre on it. Does a lovely job of streaming pretty much any media from my NAS. It's physically bigger than the Apple TV, but considerably smaller than the v+ it sits next to. It doesn't do HDMI, but that's not a problem as I only have an SD TV set. It does have a 160 gig HDD, so I can store a fair bit of media on it even without the NAS, and I did get it for next to nothing (the machine was free, the GFX card was £40).