Xbox 360 and Connect360
The other day my Xbox 360 finally arrived, despite telling Chitty-link 3 times, once even before the first delivery attempt and twice after, to call me as the intercom system doesn’t work they still didn’t. Fortunately the caretaker of the property must have been outside as he was able to let the delivery guy in through the gate and into the block of flats, so I got it delivered straight to my door.
So rather unsurprisingly I spent most of yesterday evening playing GTA:IV. Its very fun and I’m getting the hang of driving with the 360’s controller.
Anyway this morning after a nice pzizz induced slumber I awoke at half past seven and started messing about with the Xbox again. I recalled that Dave had once mentioned the ability to do the Media Extender type stuff for the Xbox from a Mac. Thankfully his search box worked very well and I found his post about Connect360 which I promptly gave a go and was dead chuffed at my ability to stream not only iTunes music and iPhoto picture to the Xbox but also video files in my Movies folder. This is probably the best feature of all. I’ve recorded and transcoded some TV shows from my TV Mini device and I can now watch them on the TV at my leisure. How sweet is that.
I’ve not tried playing iTunes TV shows through the 360, but if that works then the 360 is certainly a nice alternative to the Apple TV. Never thought I’d have said that.
