TIME.com: Out Of The XBox

TIME.com: Out Of The XBox -- May. 23, 2005: "Microsoft, a company known primarily for making highly profitable business software, has put a box in your living room. It entered your house under the humble pretense of being a game machine, a toy for the kids, but it just ate your CD player and your DVD player, and it's looking hungrily at your telephone. It's all up in your media cabinet. It's talking to your iPod, your digital camera, your TV, your stereo, your PC, your credit card and the Internet. It has created a miniature electronic ecosystem inside your home, with itself at the center."
Now as many of you know "I AM NOT A GAMER" i have tried to waste hours playing games and even getting to understand why people buy a console if the same games are on PC-CD with a "gamerig" worthy of all that ATI and Dual-Core hungry you just need a game to pop in (yes I know it's cheaper) but still....Not convinced. Now the internet and a million of gamers and "Modders" have altered their XBox to make a "Media Center" with all the great things of a TiVo or a Windows Media Center, now THAT is appealing to me. But now they have done it, they have gotten inside your house via your kids and will be moving from their rooms to the living room. Making the Tech-Oriented dads send their kids to sleep early so they can use the "Silver Thingy". Of course somebody thought about it before but hey... Guess who got there first...yep you guessed right our beloved Microsoft. This has being a daring and risky move but I'm sure it will be worth it. Being able to plug to your computer and show your photos and videos, being able to plug to your iPod to hear the music and even to your camera (let's not forget email and free long distance), they have really made me happy this time. Here's is how to read the whole article