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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 dreamx…

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…

the rumours of an north american xbox price drop in april has finally come true as microsoft just now officially announced that the xbox® video game system will be available $149.99 (u.s.) in the united states, $199.99 (u.s.) in canada, 1,999 pesos in mexico and $249 (australian) in australia…

first of all we like to apologize to all people who entered the contest for the delay we took in deciding a winner, just know it’s very hard to organize such a large team as xbmc/xbmp have become, and on top of that the contenders where all excellent it was so very hard to choose just one. the…

friendtech, the manufacturers of dreamx send us an e-mail telling us they like to offer frodo a dreamx-733 as their donation to our buy frodo a dreamx-733 campaign. the dreamx-733 by friendtech is a standard xbox upgraded with to 128mb ram, and like it’s big brother the dreamx-1480 it also has comes…

cykiller from maxconsole.com responding to xbmc’s buy frodo a dreamx-733 campaign offered a very generous donation, a dreamx-1480 to frodo for further development of the xboxmediacenter project. the dreamx-1480 by friendtech is a modified xbox running on 1.4ghz cpu and 128mb ram, it also has built…

currently frodo (xbmc founder and lead developer) only has one xbox that he has to develop/debug/use xbmc and play games on, the xbmc-team have therefore decided to start this campaign to collect donations for frodo so he can buy a dreamx-733 to dedicate for xbmc development. we hope to raise at…

we are pleased to announce that from today xbmc now also have support for the xenium lcd. lcd support was already added several weeks ago to xbmc, however until now we only had support for the smartxx-lcd. our thanks this time goes to team-ozxodus who donated 20 xenium chips, 4 lcd’s and the source…

tom’s hardware guide (probably the most famous computer hardware site on the internet) has posted a very brief article about the most current standalone “multi-talented multi-media” appliances for the living room. it shortly compares the multimedia capabilities of northq nq5000, kiss dp-500, cd3o c…

we got some bad news and we got some good news, depending how you look on it. the bad news is team-xecuter has let us know that the x3 has been slightly delayed so we won’t have any prizes to hand out directly when the contest where about to end so we have decided to postpone the competition. the…

you probably all heard about 4th generation of modchips now coming out. one outstanding feature these chips have is the option of a nice 20×2 or 20×4 lcd display and i’m glad to announce that we already started adding lcd display support to xbmc. an lcd display could be made to show all details…

xbmc has got more and more lovely skins and this made us wondering what do you all think, should we change the default skin?, if so which skin should become the default one? please cast you vote poll: what should be xbmc’s default skin?

many users have complained that the anonymous cvs at sourceforge is unusable. most of the times it’s 24-72 hours behind in updates which can be pretty frustrating. to deliver the latest sources to you guys i have installed a cron job, this job will make a snapshot of the developers cvs every night…