Reddit reviews Xbox DVD Movie Playback Kit

You may complain with the new ones yes

BUT we all know the original multimedia controller for the original Xbox is the best

👉😎👉

It had soo many buttons

[EDIT] The image of the original Xbox media controller

Yeah, but you had to buy the "DVD Playback Kit" aka a remote to watch anything on it.

The original Xbox, after you mod it. I know modding it is work that most people wouldn't bother with, but for those who did, it becomes a really powerful (yet inexpensive) machine:

• awesome media center with no format restrictions (can play from network share, disc, or hard drive)
  
  
• up to 4-player emulation of any console up through the N64
  
  
• play your library of Xbox games from the hard drive
  
  
• Dolby Digital Live encoding (Toslink) and HD video output (component)
  
  
• tons of interesting homebrew applications
  
  I keep a bunch of TV shows and movies on my Mac's 1TB HDD, and I can easily stream them over the network using XBMC to watch them on my HDTV. I know the Xbox 360 and PS3 have some media center support, but they tend to be limited to a few formats and require special software on the PC. XBMC supports just about every format out there, and can play them from many different types of network shares (Windows SMB, FTP, etc).
  
  I have a bunch of emulators, like SNES9X, ZSNES, DGen, and Project64. I know there are also NES and GameBoy Color emulators out there. We have a blast playing multi-player SNES games like NBA Jam and Super Baseball 2020 and N64 games like Mario Kart 64. I can also play my favorite SNES RPGs and Genesis Sonic games to satisfy my nostalgia.
  
  With the (now very cheap) Xbox DVD kit, I can use my Harmony to control the media center. I also added a secondary IR receiver capable of handling power and eject signals, so the Xbox turns on and off with the appropriate activity.

Could you get something like this for the original Xbox and then use that as the DVD player?(I'm pretty sure the original Xbox can play DVDs but might need the media remote. It's been a long time since I messed with an OG xbox.


https://www.amazon.com/HD-Link-Cable-Original-Xbox-System/dp/B07D19QQHW


https://www.amazon.com/Xbox-DVD-Movie-Playback-Kit/dp/B00005O0I9

Great job OP. I'm a little disappointed that the banana pi didn't catch on, but the only thing it had going for it was the sata port.

You might want to think of investing in a USB enclosure for the HDD and buy a raspberry pi 3. I have over 9TB worth of data connected to my raspberry pi 2, and I use OSMC with an Xbox DVD kit dongle that I converted to usb years ago to control OSMC with the included remote (OSMC even has native support for the xbox dongle in the remote settings).

https://www.amazon.ca/Xbox-DVD-Movie-Playback-Kit/dp/B00005O0I9

Exact same scenario. Want to add a feature that requires a license? You had to pay for the license.

Think of the bigger picture. Why would Microsoft blanket license this for however many million Xbox One users there are so EVERYONE gets to use it 'free' when they know there's going to be a small number who will ever actually use it?