Fiji is old news, Excalibur seems to be the new thing (Via ActiveWin ). I’ve never seen so much made of a codename! I follow what Stephen Chapman is saying, but knowing how eHome works inside of Microsoft I wouldn’t try and put together what they are doing with a five year old codename. Embedded Automation...
Brent Evans has (almost) all your answers on the HD PVR that finally has started shipping . And remember, it doesn’t work with Media Center (yet?). Joe Wilcox has Eight Things About Windows 7 following Microsoft’s first public demo of the OS at All Things D. Overall I think Windows 7 is going to be more...
CinemaNow has launched a new Media Center plug-in available through the “Explore” tile in Vista Media Center. Currently their library features over 3,400 feature-length movies, 3,000 TV episodes and over 2,900 music videos that can be downloaded without using a mouse and keyboard. This includes Pay-Per...
Mary Jo says Fiji is out for beta testing , but I wouldn’t know anything about that. Last night Netflix announced their first hardware partner for their stream STB, and it turns out that it is Roku . Kind of an interesting choice, but Dave covers why some might have seen it coming. The bad news, it is...
Andy just posted a new command line application, ToDVRMS . As the name suggests, it converts files to DVR-MS. It was developed for MPEG/VOB, so rip your DVDs as one large VOB and run ToDVRMS on them and they should playback on Extenders. Anthony Park added support for Netflix’s new Instant Queue Feature...
Interactive advertising is something that I’ve always imagined would come to Media Center and frankly I’m amazed that it has taken so long. There have been a few examples in the past, but nothing major. This is changing however with Media Center getting its first taste of interactive advertising via...
While Vista currently has three separate Netflix plug-ins in development they all share one thing in common, no Watch Now support on Extenders. Between MyNetflix , NetflixMC , and vmcNetflix it seemed pretty hopeless that we would never get Watch Now support on Extenders. That all changed this morning...
If MyNetflix and NetflixMC didn’t do it for you, then you might want to check out the latest addition to the Netflix plug-in battleground, vmcNetflix . It does all the basics including viewing your queue, add/remove movies from your queue, and stream in a fullscreen window within Media Center. Among...
mceSoftsqueeze makes it possible to use a Media Center PC as a client to control your Squeezebox . This HTML plug-in should work with MCE 2005 and Vista, but sadly it doesn't appear to be Media Center Extender friendly. The Green Button member Ricibob is wondering if it would be possible to create...
Microsoft made it official that the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive is now dead . If you wanted one, I hope you got it already. You will likely find stock marked down all over the place, some retailers going as low as $50 now. DivX Inc has pulled the plug on their streaming service Stage6 mainly do to the high...