Microsoft made plans public on Friday in Japan (late Thursday in US) for the release of a product called “Windows Media Center TV Pack” as a part of their increased TV signal support in the country. (Image via Masaru Kamikura's tumblr ) What is the Windows Media Center TV Pack? Well, that’s up to...
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...
Paul Thurrott has several screenshots up from Windows 7 build 6519 (Dec. 2007) in which the Media Center UI appears to be getting a minor facelift. This is to be expected in any Windows release, but the manner in which it is currently being done looks a bit odd to me. Based on the screenshots it looks...
Microsoft is finally getting set to take HDTV in Media Center outside of the US! Our first hint was a few months ago in a job application where Microsoft stated they were working with European satellite TV providers . This just screamed Sky to me, and with Media Center get H.264 and DVB-S(2) support...
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 news that Dish Network might be on its way to Media...
I’ve long talked about the addition of two-way CableCARD within Media Center , but so far no real timeline has been drawn. Microsoft has kept their lips locked as has CableLabs about actually finishing (or announcing) the specs for the two-way tuners (called BOCRs). All of this leaves us to fill in the...