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[photoman]

QUOTE (SpyderMod @ Mar 14 2004, 03:02 AM)

do you know if they will be saling them in the usa

 no these are completely European exclusives. so you either have to have a friend in Europe, find a shop that ships to USA, or cough up some cash when the hit ebay.

but if you bring one into the USA, you have to change the PSU and video mode for it to even work on your tv. do a search if you are curious on how to get it to work properly. is was discussed last week sometime.

[crazymaniac]

QUOTE (Grez @ Mar 14 2004, 12:05 AM)

Pictures added upon request... http://grez.org/Crystal/ pictures of the box with power on. Both in dark and lighted room. I got a request for these in PM. crazymaniac asked for a motherboard photo. It's completely ordinary 1.4 motherboard, so I hope that not everybody loads it. If you don't believe me then go ahead and have a look. I assure you however, that I know what I am talking about and there are no differences to other 1.4 boards!

 ok, thanks mate! i hope the later versions of the crystal in holland (where i come from) are also 1.4...

[nazghoul]

QUOTE (crowmo @ Mar 8 2004, 02:44 PM)

Heh Thomson DVD rom that read CDr's that is great, well i dont know is it right or bad stuff, but i order one xbox from WolfSoft and hope i will get soon as posible, normal edition without modship, as i only wonna be able to instal Xbox Media Player, and mybe posibility to play backuped games ( ), i wil, not need live, only mybe setup network for streaming video,audio as before, eny info here will be accepted )) bye,

this offer is great, i would have ordered the crystal box with 300 gb harddisk and chip but i think they could have @ least offerd some other chips like smartXX


or maybe i just drive there and bring them my smartXX chip so they can mod my xbox @ the store  

(ist ja nicht so weit weg   )

engl: "its not that far away"

[Ape Escape]

It looks damn nice with power on

Question is the tray from the dvdrom drive also crystal clear? (can you make a picture with dvd tray open and no dvd insert) I one know if i can use my samsung dvdrom drive in it (hope the tray is black and just the front only crystal clear) If not i hope i can fit the tray from a philips inside a samsung

[crazymaniac]

what i can see from those photo's (and other ones) is only the front of it crystal...

[Deckards]

Now we know the Crystal is a 1.4, does that mean we can use the hot swap exploit instead of a modchip?
Anyway what are the advantages of a modchip from the hot swap?

This post has been edited by Deckards on Mar 14 2004, 03:07 PM

[glared1]

this is a bit of a noob question, but i just got off the phone with a place who can ship me one, and i realized theres a few things i am unsure about...

these consoles ship with the PAL video designation, am i right in thinking xboxes output NTSC/PAL simultaneously it all comes down to the scart?

basically i live stateside, and i've wanted one of these since the day i saw it...just want to make sure there's nothing i am overlooking in the specs...

thanks alot in advance.

[Troed]

QUOTE (glared1 @ Mar 14 2004, 01:33 PM)

this is a bit of a noob question, but i just got off the phone with a place who can ship me one, and i realized theres a few things i am unsure about... these consoles ship with the PAL video designation, am i right in thinking xboxes output NTSC/PAL simultaneously it all comes down to the scart? basically i live stateside, and i've wanted one of these since the day i saw it...just want to make sure there's nothing i am overlooking in the specs... thanks alot in advance.

 Enigmah Videomode Selector

Switches Xboxes between PAL and NTSC - and yes - there's no hardware difference (aside from the PSU) - it's all down to a byte in the eeprom.

I run my PAL Xbox as NTSC to get HDTV to my projector.

[billman311]

hey glared1...can you let me know the place you are going to order from....i am stateside too and i would love to get one.

[Xavbox]

It's a Focus chip !

[crazymaniac]

there is something not clear to me, do all crystal xboxes have a focus encoder, or are also encoders of the other type in it (can't remember the name at this moment)...

This post has been edited by crazymaniac on Mar 14 2004, 07:36 PM

[Grez]

More requested photos added... (Same old Bat time, same old Bat URL http://grez.org/Crystal/)

QUOTE (crazymaniac @ Mar 14 2004, 12:54 PM)

what i can see from those photo's (and other ones) is only the front of it crystal...

Well, that's the side I think most people are looking most of the time. Also on my pictures you should be able to have some look on the top too

But I took pictures of the sides, back and bottom too.

And somone asked about the tray.. It's black with clear front bar. Picture of that posted too.

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If you worried about every one eating up your bandwidth I can host your files. I have a free host that has unlimted bandwidth usage.

Nah.. It has been only a bit less than half a gigabyte on Sunday and probably cooling down, so no worries. Still the big MB picture had impact - same amount of hits (4200) both on Saturday and Sunday but Sunday is 477 MB instead of 180 MB on Saturday.

This post has been edited by Grez on Mar 14 2004, 11:59 PM

[Grez]

QUOTE (crazymaniac @ Mar 14 2004, 07:35 PM)

there is something not clear to me, do all crystal xboxes have a focus encoder, or are also encoders of the other type in it (can't remember the name at this moment)...

 There are total of three encoders. Conexant (v. 1.0-1.3), Focus (1.4-1.5) and now this new XBL or Xcalibur or such (1.6). The original rumour was that all crystal boxes are 1.6 and thus have this not yet supported encoder. That rumour has been proven false, but there probably are some Crystal boxes with the new chip and also there will probably be normal black boxes with the new encoder surfacing some day.

[rms2001]

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but there probably are some Crystal boxes with the new chip

Just watch and see, my ten will be the only Crystal Pack units with the new encoder.  

[Qster]

Stoopid question, anyone know if the bluex xboxes will most likely be ver1.6? I kinda hope not, but mine will be arriving soon

THX