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Great news!  Too bad the sony xl1b3 has been discontinued!  talk about poor timing!

Aaron

This is huge news. Being able to stream a dvd to an extender is awsome. I have no problem that there would security on the rip. After all it will be played on my MCE or Extenders so that is great. I hope we don't have to wait a year to see it.

Also what about all the DVD's we have already ripped. Will these be able to be streamed also?

people need to remember there is a difference between what can be done technically and what can be done legally. it's the legal part that needs to be figured out. the dcma forbids defeating the encryption on the disc. and hollywood loves its DRM and is not likely to give it up like the record companies have.

What, no mention that Jessica is leaving the Media Center team?

This is huge.  Chris - will this be streaming from a changer or ripped from the HD?  If a changer is required for DRM, shouldn't it be possible to still allow for ripping movies but then the MCE server could check the changer to make sure the disk is there?  That would generally prevent the ripping of Netflix discs but still allow more than one person to watch a movie.  If they only allow streaming from the changer with no ripping, then if one person is watching a movie then the other 199 discs are not available for anyone else.

That would be a nice addition for MediaCenter users.  I've really enjoyed being able to stream all of my tv, dvd, video and music content from my SageTV server across the internet when traveling.  Watching movies streamed from my home server has come in handy many times over.

This is great news, too bad BluRay now has the upper hand as it won't allow streaming. Microsoft needs to help Toshiba and the HD DVD group push harder to get Warner back to the HD DVD camp. It's not too late. Warner will still be making HD DVDs until May. They are probably waiting to see if the HD DVD camp will respond with a better payoff offer. Microsoft, please, please, please, just pay Warner and the others off even if it costs $2 billion. It would be better money spent that spending $1.5 billion on a search engine company. Streaming DVDs and HD DVDs is something consumers desperately want. This would breathe new life into media center and could boost sales of the Xbox 360 and HD DVD add on.

Here's a petition to sign to save HD DVD. www.petitiononline.com/.../petition.html I signed it, but not sure if it's legit. I would urge people to just flood Warner with calls, e-mails to go back with HD DVD and to flood Toshiba and MS to fight harder. It also couldn't hurt to pound companies like Blockbuster and Target for favoring BluRay. Don't let HD DVD die!! It's already way more affordable, user friendly and the interactive features, codecs have been required to be in every HD DVD player since day 1. All HD DVD players have been built with an ethernet port to provide easy upgrades and interactivity. This isn't something BluRay has done. Not all BluRay players have the same interactive capabilities.

Sure, BluRay may come down in price, but not as soon and as fast if HD DVD dies. Plus, why would you want to support BluRay with all the extra DRM it includes. The music industry is finally moving away from DRM because it's antiuser. Why would you want the same with movies?

This is awesome, Microsoft really needs to tout this. Streaming from a rip is nice, streaming from a changer is really the way to go. Most people don't want to take the time to rip DVDs and hopefully HD DVDs, and most people don't have the hard drive space. Please, Microsoft, include the ability to stream from a changer. I can then centralize all my DVDs, HD DVDs and really make my Media Center PC a center for media.

Linksys:

www.linksys.com/.../Satellite

@Billusa

What's the purpose of that link?

Yes it has a DVD player, but people want to get away from "touching" the physical discs. Besides, with this option and the current one, the only way to watch the same movie in multiple places is to have multiple copies..

Hey Chris - I clarified my comments on Jerold's post.

thegreenbutton.com/.../233691.aspx

I do not understand...can't Windows Media Connect/Media Player 11 stream DVDs to extenders?

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No DVD streaming. Media center team have not announced any such functionality. Jessica Zahn said as much if you read the full posting on greenbutton. Don't know why people are still talking about this. The idea behind DVD streaming to extenders is having the same DVD Gallery (available to local MC) and then pushing that same thing to the extender.  To make everything usable, the experience on the extender should be the same as if on MC PC. Think RemoteDesktop equivalence.