{"id":1151,"date":"2011-05-27T12:08:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T18:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2011-05-27T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T19:00:11","slug":"cutting-the-cord-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/cutting-the-cord-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting the Cord: Part 4 &#8211; Original Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Xbox Softmod<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbmc4xbox.org\/\">XBMC<\/a> was what first drove me to get all of our DVDs onto a computer and it also drove me to <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/299809\/transform-your-classic-xbox-into-a-killer-media-center\">softmod our Xbox following a guide on Lifehacker<\/a>. When the DVD drive stopped working in our Xbox, I decided to repurpose it as a device that would play movies and TV episodes, and it does a great job at that. After we finally bought a DVD remote for five bucks, it worked really well. This setup doesn&#8217;t do everything, but it&#8217;s pretty good at playing back DVDs.<\/p>\n<h3>Goals:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Play back our media collection &#8211; Check.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to watch and record TV &#8211; Nope.<\/li>\n<li>Watch Netflix from any TV &#8211; Sort of, through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playon.tv\/playon\">PlayOn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other Parts of <em>Cutting the Cord<\/em>:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/cutting-the-cord-intro\/\">Cutting the Cord: Introduction<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/cutting-the-cord-part-1\/\">Backend: Desktop Computer (acting as file server) and TV Tuner<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/cutting-the-cord-part-2\/\">Master Bedroom: Roku streaming<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/cutting-the-cord-part-3\/\">Living Room: HTPC and TV w\/ built-in Netflix<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/cutting-the-cord-part-4\/\">Basement: Original Xbox with XBMC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox Softmod XBMC was what first drove me to get all of our DVDs onto a computer and it also drove me to softmod our Xbox following a guide on Lifehacker. When the DVD drive stopped working in our Xbox, I decided to repurpose it as a device that would play movies and TV episodes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}