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Monday, April 07, 2008 1:03 PM

Introducing Media Center Week!

I’m proud to introduce this week as my randomly designated Media Center Week ! Get those F5 keys ready, because I’ve complied story after story, post after post and you’re not going to want to close your web browser for this one. Already today we have...
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Friday, March 28, 2008 9:02 PM

Fiji Media Center Beta Inches Closer

We have been waiting for Microsoft to open the beta for Fiji, the suspected codename for the next version of Media Center for well over a year now. I first posted about it in March of last year , with invites first opening just a month after that , and...
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Monday, March 24, 2008 12:51 PM

Microsoft Introduces $10,000 Digital Home Makeover Contest

To celebrate the consumer availability of new Extenders for Windows Media Center, the Windows Media Center team is today unveiling a Digital Home Makeover Contest. For one lucky winner, the makeover team will transform their disconnected digital lifestyle...
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Saturday, March 08, 2008 8:46 PM

HomeSeer Gets Vista Sidebar Gadget

tenWare Software has developed a HomeSeer Sidebar Gadget to display information about Devices that also allows running of Events (macros) from a HomeSeer server. For those who don’t know, HomeSeer is PC-based home automation software that also has a Media...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 1:07 PM

Short Bits: Advertising, MAINGEAR, Ultimate PC

Microsoft has started another round of Media Center/Extender online advertising on sites like The Green Button, AVS Forum, and more. It is nice to see Microsoft advertising more, but the point still stands that the people who need to know about these...
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Friday, February 29, 2008 9:24 AM

Short Bits: Plug-ins, Media Center Show, Prices

Plug-in News/Reviews DVRMSToolbox For Vista 1.2.1.1 - Public Release (R4) MyNetflix v2.1 Beta NetflixMC beta posted Life With a Plugin, Episode 7: Remote Scheduling Ian Dixon will have Ed Bott on The Media Center Show today live at 12pm PST. Click here...
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 5:50 PM

Short Bits: HD/BD, Inteset, More

I’ve been busy as of late, but have some really interesting articles lined up as soon as I can finish them up. If you didn’t hear, Vista SP1 is officially coming in March . Derek Flickinger has a great article up on CE Pro about those pesky interactivity...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:34 PM

Short Bits: mControl Extension, Inteset Monitoring, More

Trying to catch up on some interesting stuff that I have missed over the past week. Vidabox created an extension for mControl that allows you to control other Media Center PC’s via mControl. It uses MCE Controller to do the work on the backend, and I...
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Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:27 PM

CES Keynote Roundup

Media Center was basically a no show, not too much of a shock for me. The only real Media Center is that Samsung will be supporting Extender’s in the future. Other than that, Microsoft re-announced that HP will be shipping their MediaSmart HDTVs with...
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Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:12 PM

Bill Gates Looks Ahead at “Next Digital Decade”

Microsoft announces new entertainment partnerships with Disney-ABC Television Group, MGM and NBC Universal. LAS VEGAS — Jan. 6, 2008 — At the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and Microsoft President...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 3:59 PM

Media Center Update (Fiji) Finally in 2008?

Mary Jo posted today with her predictions for Microsoft in ’08 and what do you know on the top of the list is Fiji. I’ve talked about Fiji several times in the past, and ’08 should be the year it finally surfaces. According to Mary Jo, it most likely...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:11 AM

Cumulative Update (October 2007) for Vista Media Center Released

The KB Article is not live yet (as of me posting) , but Microsoft has released an update for Vista Media Center today. This update addresses issues with Media Center for Microsoft Vista, which ones do we think that might be? More later today, until then...
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