Fiji Media Center Beta Inches Closer

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re: Fiji Media Center Beta Inches Closer

chrisl — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:37:10 GMT

Whenever it is released.

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Jeffg — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:21:49 GMT

Any idea when we will have a list of what is included in this release?

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chrisl — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:19:59 GMT

Vista SP1 is already out, and it's not Fiji. Fiji is a Media Center update, and the linked to stories above contain all the information I have about it.

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Jeffg — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:10:11 GMT

Do we know what all is changing with Fiji yet? I have read some things that Fiji is supposed to be Vista SP1, but is that true? If it is - I have not seen any changes in Media Center yet - did I miss a bunch of stuff?

Chris - anything you can tell us?

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AJ — Sun, 11 May 2008 06:57:05 GMT

I'm really, really hanging out for this in Fiji: VMC is currently dead in the water in New Zealand and parts of europe until DVB-T H.264 comes on board. No Kiwi I know uses Windows Media Center any more, as it just doesn't DO digital tv in NZ. DVB-S, DVB-S2 support are more or less compulsory now.

Grabbing the EPG from the digital transmission seems a no-brainer to add in, native blu-ray support seems a no-brainer, customisable menus seem a no brainer. I therefore assume, given that these are no-brainers, that they are not going to appear.

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Mike Cousins — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:48:25 GMT

All I care about is:

- Native Blu-Ray and HD DVD support

- A better way to handle large video collections. Looking at a mass of screenshots doesn't help me find the movie I want quickly.

- Better integration with games and other external programs. I want to easily be able to add programs to run with my remote without messing with XML files and registry settings.

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Darren Sellers — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:32:17 GMT

Better Windows Home Server Integration. Wizards which automatically create shorcuts to your Home Server Content.

DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-CI for encryption support.

Pull the guide from the DVB stream instead of the internet and allow updates when programmes are running late.

Eventually would like to see them port the Tuner\recording engine to Windows Home Server, then I can keep my Home Server turned on all the time and turn off my Windows Media Centre in the lounge. At the moment they are both on 24 hours a day. I'm guessing the extender interface should also sit on Windows Home Server.

Allow Windows home server itself to act as an extender to your main Windows Media Center. Meaning my bedroom PC could play content form my lounge Windows Media Center.

Allow more than 3 Tuners and allow the GUI to show conflicts from them.

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chrisl — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:04:39 GMT

ChiWax: The secret would be to allow DVDs to stream while keeping them protected....

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ChiWax — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:38:04 GMT

MS is never going to let ripped DVDs play over your networks. MS is never going to go in a direction of making Media Center even more for tech-heads like us. I totally understand it and I don't get why people keep asking for it. MS is going to try to keep the content creators happy. Without the content creators there is no reason to even do Media Center...mike

re: Fiji Media Center Beta Inches Closer

Me — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:43:31 GMT

For those who keep saying "die fast in Europe", maybe MS is just going to flip the bird to Europe due to the constant litigation from its rulers...

re: Fiji Media Center Beta Inches Closer

sly75 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:47:10 GMT

For me any of the above.

MS probably know that they have a good product that is capable in the home. The question is how long can we wait and how devoted are we?

Surely it won't be long before a competitor will come out with a product that does all that we ask of it. Those products are already out there and catching up. Time is running out.

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Anonymous because — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:50:19 GMT

Well I have had email exchange with the beta office and the beta invitation that I got is specific to work being done for the UK market.

So hopefully this mean they are taking this market more seriously..

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re: Fiji Media Center Beta Inches Closer

Teaspoon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:42:19 GMT

According to this thread

avforum.no/.../58228-fakta-rikstv-windows-media-center.html

Started by a MS employee they are working on DVB-support, including MPEG4 and HE-ACC support. One of the reasons things are not going as fast as they would like is Hollywoods demand for copyright protection.

re: Fiji Media Center Beta Inches Closer

Brad — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:22:40 GMT

Everybody has some good ideas which I agree with.

I would also like see a button in the 'now playing' when playing music of course, to sync the current song to my Zune. e.g. If I hear a song that catches my fancy, I want to sync it in real time with the push of a button.

When did syncing music become such a project?

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chrisl — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:21:00 GMT

Dave: FYI, DIRECTV uses DVB-S and DVB-S2 (w/ H.264), so the architecture will be there. Stay tuned for more. ;)

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Dave — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:48:30 GMT

Must have DVB-S, DVB-S2 HD Support.

I still can't believe VMC doesn't support HD