Xbox Media Center Coming For The Mac?

For those of you who never toyed in the original Xbox hombrew sense Xbox Media Center was the end-all be-all of homebrew applications. It was originally created in 2002 and required either a hardware modchip or a software exploit on the Xbox to run.

XBMC was the ultimate media center application on the Xbox and I still run it on 2 Xbox’s in my house, it offer a rich video experience and can play virtually any media file either off the internal hard drive or by way of a network share. This is why I’m ecstatic to possibly seeing it arrive for the Mac OS.

The Mac version looks to be very promising. With a Linux version also under development we may just see a common UI for a rich media center application across any platform.

The Mac end of the project is being headed up by Elan Feingold, who was just interviewed by 9 to 5 Mac which can be read here.

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