There was a golden moment - perhaps 2003 through mid 2004 - when xbmc running on the original Xbox could do everything… But then HD content arrived with bitrat

There was a golden moment - perhaps 2003 through mid 2004 - when xbmc running on the original Xbox could do everything… But then HD content arrived with bitrates too high for that hardware and everything splintered and got confusing and which Mac mini was beefy enough to play 1080p @ 30fps and which downloads were “HD” but not so hd that you couldn’t play them … It never got back to the elegance of a modded Xbox and sd content …