Connecting you to your media

Attention TV manufacturers: only having a power button on the remote control is a bad design. While it may save you a few pennies in COGS, it's a real pain for the user when the batteries die in the remote and causes them to have to get behind the TV...

After the MSNBC article listing Media Center as a miss, Endadget lists Media Center as one of it's hits (but surprisingly left Clippy out as a miss). Gizmodo lists Media Center as one of the 10 reasons why Vista isn't so bad, so I guess that puts Media...

There is a new update available for Extender users on the Xbox 360. It addresses three key issues: This update addresses a picture quality issue that occurs when you use Media Center Extender on an Xbox 360 console that has a High-Definition Multimedia...

Well, if you believe MSNBC's Suzanne Choney, Media Center PCs are one of the " misses " during BillG's tenture. I obviously disagree. What do you think?

Those of you who have an HP MediaSmart TV should be getting a firmware update in the next 24 hours to add Media Center Extender functionality. I've been testing this in my family room and it's so nice to just be able to plug in the TV, connect to my wireless...

HP has put up a vdeo on their website to promote the Extender functionality of their MediaSmart TVs. I think it does a great job of explaning what the benefits of Media Center and Extender are. This may be the best Extender advertisement out there --...

At CES Samsung has announced that they will be incorporating Extender functionality into their TVs later this year. Having a TV with MCX built-in is the way to go for a second TV in the house, particularly if you have wireless. I (and my wife) think it...

Steven Lindsay, who has been helping us test 3rd party Extenders, shows us his Media Center setup. I'm not worthy. You can now pre-order the Linksys Extenders from the Dell website . Hopefully those who order them now will get them before the end of...

A few weeks back the IE team moved into the 4th floor of our building and proceeded to put their unique touch to the decor. Today, the eHome team said welcome: sorry for the poor quality photo

Chris Lanier asks whether you would buy a Media Center server. I would. Leave him a comment with your thoughts Charlie Owens offers to help with providing help on how to get MCE, Xbox, Zune to work together. Let him know if he has all the scenarios...

For those of you who did not get to see JoeB's keynote at Digital Life, where he talked about and showed v2 Extenders and Internet TV, is now available on Internet TV in Media Center.

Today I learned that you can start watching a TV show on the MCE PC, stop it, and then resume it on an Extender (and vice versa). Not sure I'll do that all that often, but nice to know that I can roam around the house and pick up where I left off.

As others have pointed out , we've finally said something about the availability of v2 Extenders. As OEMs can add functionality to differentiate their offerings we cannot give specifics as to which Extenders will do what, but expect announcements from...

Microsoft is at CEDIA Expo this week to bring awareness to the home installer world about Media Center and Media Center Extender. The booth (#320) will be showing solutions from many of our partners, with Media Center being featured in the Life|Ware village...

Wow, it's been over a month since my last post. Sorry about that. Daniel Lyons (of Fake Steve Jobs fame) wrote up an article over at Forbes talking about how good Media Center is in Windows Vista and how easy it is to hook up an Xbox 360 as a Media...

Windows Home Server has RTM'd ! I've played with it a bit and think it's a fabulous product. Unfortunately for me it's about a year later than I would have liked as my old file server was dying so I ended up buying an Enfrant.

All of the videos from the Media Center Extender on Xbox 360 advertising campaign are now available for download on Xbox Live.

Our illustrious leader is interviewed by Michael Wolf of ABI Research. I haven't listened to the podcast myself, but it looks like they talk about CableCard, Pika, and the availability of some often-requested features. From the website: My guest...

The Xbox team has put together some advertising about Media Center Extender on the Xbox 360. To see it go to http://www.xbox.com/windowsmediacenter . You'll start to see banner ads on major sites soon. Wooo! What are your thoughts on the advertising...

The presentations from WinHEC '07 are finally avaiable online: Media Center Extender Device Design Media Center Extender Technology: Overview

I feel sorry for our Canadian friends. It appears the cable companies are adding DRM policy to channels even though the content owners are not asking for it in an attempt to push people from Media Center to their DVRs which they can charge a rental fee...

Here is our official statement... Pika WinHEC update The eHome team is gratified by the response we have received based on the Pika presentations, demos and status update delivered at WinHEC. After some very hard work by our team and our launch...

So it has been theorized that BillG announced a "SoftSled" at WinHEC. That is not the case. What he said was that the functionality to remote Media Center onto an Xbox 360 will be available in other CE devices like TVs. This is the Pika project that allows...

With the Spring '07 update you can now configure your Xbox 360 to boot directly into Media Center Extender! To do this, goto System > Console Settings > Startup and select Media Center. Now if I could just get the Xbox 360 to be quiet...

WinHEC is just around the corner (May 15-17) and for those of you attending there will be two Media Center Extender sessions to check out: Media Center Extender Technology: Overview (CON-T411). This is an overview of how MCX works and what an OEM will...