> And of course, it's compatible with xbox live . It has a nice cheap
> price too.

But you have to pay for Live! Booo! Plus the game servers might not be around forever... who knows.

> The microsoft player is simply a remote you buy, just like a tv remote control.
> You have to rely on your xbox controller for home made players, although I think
> I've seen a new one that supports the ms remote control, but I'm not sure.

Doesn't XBMC work with the remote? And XBMP? Also DVD-X?

> You can even access the files on your pc and play them via your network, gotta
> love file sharing in windows.

Hells yes (you can also add a SMB share, same thing). This rules, streaming from your PC to any TV in the house and shit. Wonder if in the future it'll support NFS. I'm interested in getting VideoLAN to encode my TV and send it over to the X-Box, maybe in the future there will be TIVO features like pausing live streams, such as can be broadcast with VideoLAN, etc.

> xbox media center, the only one I'd recommend, hell I don't know if anyone tried
> to do better than this one, it's perfect, except for dvd movies, it seems to
> play them via software decoding, you'll get glitches from time to time.

But it lets you specify an external player at least.