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neoya inc. (makers of the best vga-adapter for the xbox) has kindly donated 5 x2vga+ adapters to the xboxmediacenter project for us to run this screen-saver development competition. the purpose of this contest is to develop new screensaver plugins for xbox media center (and extend xbmc’s…

apologies for the somewhat delayed news post, by now you’ve probably already heard that we’ve added a major update to our cvs. support for the free multiplayer online gaming service xlink kai has been massively improved. amongst many new features, it has a voice chat function (using…

we have had this idea in mind for a while and were planning to kick of this campaign at a later date but after a recent post in mplayer-dev mailing-list we have decided to bring forward the announcement. the ‘donations for dvd-menu in xbmc campaign’ basic concept is to encourage xbmc end-users to…

xbmc 1.1.0 final point release source code has now been set in our cvs! once again we felt that we had been holding off doing any official release candidates for so long that we now consider the current xbmc cvs to be as stable as a point release should and could be, so we decided that we were…

news story from xbox-scene.com: received news from arddrive who has been working on xform (previously called xbmc-skinner), a win32 tool that will allow you to easily make skins for xboxmediacenter: “i know you have all been waiting a long time for xform but the beta release will be coming this…

team-xaddons (addons.com) have officialy announced a generic lcd-mod (adds a parallel and a spi-bus interface to your xbox) and a lcd-con (lcd-connector board) xbox-mod add-ons. the lcd-mod has several pin-headers and sockets to ensure compatability with a wide range of console versions and…

we are happy to announce that we have now once again put the xboxmediacenter cvs in a feature freeze and our second official xbmc public bug bash have begun, which is the first steps in the process of getting ready for another stable point release of xbmc. the cvs feature freeze stage implies that…

microsoft has as of last week (better late news than no news) officially dropped the rrp (recommended retail price) of their xbox® video game console in europe. the price was lower by £30/€50 making the new rrp £99.99/€149.99, (a price that now match the xbox price in north america which was…

relax v0.79 # relax now works with xbmc!….. if you don’t use xmbc then don’t download this release # just put in xbmc the path like “xns://yourip:1400/” for the root and “xns://yourip:1400/divx” for your divxes.. etc # here is the changelog! relax now works with xbmc.. to do that i had to rework…

the winners of the xbmc skinning contest has now been finalized, but first we like to offer a public apology for our delay in this decision, (we had some copyright issues to sort out and real-life/work stuff came up too that had to be dealt with first). 15 out the 20 submitted entries has been…

xbmc 1.0.0 point release source code has now been set in our cvs, so believe it or not, the day that many of you been waiting for is finally here, today, now! we felt that we had been holding off doing release candidates for so long that we now consider the xbmc cvs to be as stable as a point…

this is just a simple reminder that there is now very little time left to submit your xboxmediacenter skin if you made one for our skinning contest. we will officially accept (valid) entries until 12:00 am g:mt 21st of june 2004 (that is 12 o’clock noon tomorrow greenwich mean time), so make sure…

we have decided to postpone the last submission date of our xbmc skinning contest by one month, this mostly due to the few number of skins submitted so far. postponing the contest means new skinners will get a chance to catch up to join the competition and all existing skinners get to perfect the…

tomshardware.com has today posted a review of “the ultimate multimedia center” that is xbmc. the famous tech review site now offers the first full review of xboxmediacenter which they call “the ideal home playback system for audio and video”. the review features xbmc tested on friendtech’s…

we are glad to announce the xboxmediacenter projects official online merchandise store open. the store is hosted by cafepress and offers xbmc merchandise such as t-shirt’s, hooded shirts, mugs and a few other goodies, all with the official xbmc logos (courtesy of tamper). currently the store is a…

Note: As of 2021-03-07, the links and media mentioned here are no longer available. This post is maintained for historical purposes only without any of the links or associated media. tamper has finalized the official xboxmediacenter logo and these are the two main logos: missing logos Please…

we are happy to announce the current xbmc cvs as 1.0 beta ready, thus our first official public bug bash has begun and we are now on a feature freeze. as the time has come when xboxmediacenter finally starting to reach maturity we also like to declare that the era of xboxmediaplayer is over. the…

the last submission date for our xbmc audio visualization competition has now passed and six valid entries was received. since we had ten prize positions all six entries are winners and will each be awarded with a final version of the xecuter-3 modchip courtesy of team-xecuter. know that we are…

team-ozxodus and xbox-gear.com has kindly donated 10 xenium modchips each to the xboxmediacenter project for us to run this skinning contest. the contest purpose is to get a more diverse amount of skins for xbmc and hopefully in turn this will also encourage more graphic artists to keep making…