I think it might finally be time to get an Xbox soon. The Xecuter 3 is out, or just about out. It’s solderless, works with the newer 1.6 versions of the Xbox, and has a nifty looking front control panel thing with a LCD and stuff. After taxes and discounts and stuff, it would end up costing me about $325 CAD for the system with a couple of games and the modchip. Not too bad. Later on I could always add a decent size hard drive.

I don’t really care about most of the games for the Xbox, except maybe Jade Empire. Mostly I just want to use it for emulation and watching DivX/XviD/etc stuff. I’m not even as concerned about playing copied games. If a game is good, I don’t mind buying it.

I’d probably have to rearrange things slightly on my home theatre system and television, so I could use the digital audio and S-video inputs for it. But that shouldn’t be much of a problem.