Video: Revo and Xbox (finished)
Added 2024-12-22 22:11:45 +0000 UTC
This should be final, so all the people who ignored my suggestion to not leave comments on the first version can go repost them there. :p
Comments
I had the same Dell E6320 laptop and I added a USB 3.0 port via the ExpressCard slot. It stuck out just a few millimeters but it worked
Asaf Sagi
2024-12-26 13:08:57 +0000 UTCA lot of early HD televisions had DVI before HDMI came out, with the same on HD A/V gear, so a lot of A/V oriented devices rocked a DVI port for backward compatibility for many years.
Xaviette Katzenfrau
2024-12-24 20:23:56 +0000 UTCBack in the day, I had a cable box that had a DVI port on it. I guess it was common for more early HD era stuff to have DVI for some reason.
bob
2024-12-23 20:39:08 +0000 UTCI had a netbopok with an ION 2. I remember performance being bad, but not quite as bad as you had. That system had a Intel atom D525 though I didnt know there was a system that had an amd cpu and ion gpu though, that's cool!
bob
2024-12-23 20:22:19 +0000 UTCnever felt so thankful to Hardware Video Decoding/Acceleration than with this video
Zeta Reserve
2024-12-23 18:56:53 +0000 UTCPower DVD is such trash, yeah. I got a used internal BD drive a couple years ago which obviously didn't come with any software included. So I opted to use the trail version of Power DVD. Funny thing is, my second monitor at the time wasn't HDCP compatible, so power DVD just stopped working as soon as I moved the windows over to that monitor. Somehow it would still work if you move the window in between the monitors so you could just get around HDCP it by recording one half of the video on that non compatible monitor, then the other half by rearranging the monitors and combine them in post. Not that I did that of course, I just wanted to watch my dang discs the least illegal way.
DiaBomb
2024-12-23 10:22:52 +0000 UTCDamn, I am the rare one who used eSATA! :D In 2010 i got my first notebook, which was a Dell Studio, and it had USB2.0 and esata. In 2011 or 2012 i bought an external HDD enclosure (Delock 42492) which had this combined port, along with eSATAp + USB3.0 cables. It was fast at the time much faster then USB2.0, and neighter had my desktop PC not my laptop USB3.0. It was a great chocie, i still use the external HDD with USB3.0 cables. After i sold my Dell Studio, the new notebook didn't had esatap, just USB3.0, i had the wired cable for years and i think 1-2 years before a had thrown it out. Also in Europe, there was a high-end satellite receiver called Dreambox, and the early HD models (like DM800) had only DVI as digital out, no HDMI. Also some first HD-ready LCD TV/TV-monitors had DVI input.
Garga Pista
2024-12-23 08:26:02 +0000 UTCI guess you could use it for something super simple like pi-hole? The power consumption could be worse.
doink
2024-12-23 00:41:01 +0000 UTCWhen I saw that big blue ring I realized the box running Home Assistant in my server rack is Zotac zbox ID84 that was gifted to me. Slightly newer CPU than yours, with a GT 520M, but it works great for Home Assistant, even on UPS power.
Kerne
2024-12-23 00:10:49 +0000 UTCYour tangent about PowerDVD amused me. If you haven't already, I hope at some point you talk about the incomprehensible fiasco that is UHD Blu-ray support. There is *fewer* than one legal way to play those on PC, now that the DRM technology PowerDVD relied on, Intel SGX, is deprecated.
Blair Durkee
2024-12-22 22:36:46 +0000 UTCAlso the xbox typo made me think you now included a comparison to the xbox 360 as a HTPC to the two. The only plus point I can think of now to using one of these vs. a xbox or an PS3 (like you mentioned) would be the ability to play pirated content & Live TV much easier vs. the locked down consoles.
Sebastian K.
2024-12-22 22:28:25 +0000 UTCYou missed the chance to put the „two of them“ cats at the 1 hr mark with the two USB 3 ports.
Sebastian K.
2024-12-22 22:21:52 +0000 UTCI read xbox the first three times I saw the title on the previous one, and was confused 15 minutes into the video when there was no xbox in sight, then I figured it out.
qdoggie
2024-12-22 22:17:11 +0000 UTCWe have Xbox... We have Zbox... so where is Ybox
Xaviette Katzenfrau
2024-12-22 22:14:30 +0000 UTCtypo :p
Cathode Ray Dude
2024-12-22 22:13:47 +0000 UTChahahha it was supposed to say zbox
Cathode Ray Dude
2024-12-22 22:13:10 +0000 UTCHow did xbox get here
naorunaoru
2024-12-22 22:12:47 +0000 UTC
