I am now what the cool kids call a 1337 h4x0r, and if you don’t know what that means then you can just stop reading right now…or look it up. The reason is that I have recently hacked my original Xbox to become an amazing media center by installing the infamous Xbox Media Center (XBMC). This allows me to stream content across my local network to the TV hassel free with mostly stuff I already had while not disabling it’s game console abilities. I highly reccommend it as it’s not too hard (unless you can’t locate an Action Replay device like I couldn’t).

There’s an excellent tutorial on ProductWiki that guided me through the dark scary path of soft modding.