Tag: General Media Center News

Uh oh….this reorganization is either going to be really really good for Media Center…or be really really bad. I’m hoping for the former, and will try to get more information at next month’s MVP Summit at Redmond. TDL As a natural evolution of the Interactive Entertainment Business, our consumer products and experienes focused on games, movies, tv and music will […]

Hot off the heels of the FCC’s obvious announcement last week that Cable Card was a failure, Sean Alexander takes a closer look at the technology–past, present and future in the hopes of progressing towards a more useful and prominent technology for all of us. Sean Alexander And the future doesn’t appear to be much brighter. The interactive support needed […]

Ian came across this handy blog post from Ogre about all sorts of container support in Windows 7 that you are sure to find useful. Ogre’s Blog MP4 does support metadata but Media Player and Media Center don’t recognize it. Tagging an MP4 based TV episode in the Zune software generates Windows Media style “WM/TagName” tags as a sub-tag of […]

All that waiting, and the time is over!! The ATI DCT Firmware has apparently made it’s debut on windows update, so grab it today! So go grab a tuner, schedule a cablecard installation, and read our guide on skipping commercials with it!   EngadgetHD Microsoft delivered the first half of two promised ATI Digital Cable Tuner-related updates as the 1.19.12.09050155 […]

MissingRemote is a very broad community for all things home theater, but it’s not often we get a product with as much hype and excitement as this the case on October 22nd–the launch of Windows 7. We will continue bringing you around the clock news, reviews articles and guides, but wanted to remind everyone as they enter the fun of […]

Danimal1969 let us in on this little (yet SUPER important) news announcement which is very relevant to our little world here, as for the longest time we have been unable to smoothly play back Hulu or other flash-based content on ION and other low-powered units since the hardware accelleration was not working properly. Good to hear everyone worked together to […]

Richard, from the PVR Team within Microsoft’s Media Center world has taken the time out to write a nice introduction to the technology behind the recording technology behind the upcoming operating system. Most of it will be rehash for most people, but for newcomers it should be a welcome introduction. TheGreenButton Conflicts happen when more shows have been requested to […]

Here’s a cool little summary of where we’ve come with Windows Media Center and then some must have additions and tools to improve the overall Media Center experience. It just goes to show that MCE is more flexible than most people would think, coming from Microsoft and being relatively locked down. Benchmark Reviews The proliferation of multimedia audio and video […]

I’m sure you all remember Ben’s CEDIA predictions of what would go down, and now he’s got his own self-scoreboard up on EngadgetHD. Looks like he did a pretty good job as a fortune teller. It’s a shame all his predictions couldn’t come true for us enthusiasts…maybe next year! EngadgetHD Sadly this is the biggest section — we aren’t even […]

Continuing the odd week of scheduled podcasts, we’ve got another one for your weekend listening. The gang at DMZ cover a bit more CEDIA topics and a variety of other items. Digital Media Zone Back again and now that CEDIA is finally over we can talk about some of the other news that came out of the expo. We can’t […]