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Check out the Java TivoDemo for a TiVO box with the TiVo Home Media Engine (HME) . I think it's great eBay is looking at the living room and ten foot presentations of their service. For you see... I'm a fan of eBay although not a heavy user (I'm cmozen
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[Courtesy of my friend and colleague John Canning , who isn't blogging but should be -- especially about his world traveling photographic expeditions...] Here is a resource we nailed for the 2004 version of Media Center and revised for the 2005 version.
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Robert Scoble has a rule ( The Corporate Weblog Manifesto #12) which states 'Never change the URL of your weblog.' Unfortunately, I started blogging before reading The Manifesto. Yes, I know: RTFM. However, I see this as a definite success story about
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I took some time to respond to Thomas' blog this morning at MCE Television and LaCie Big Disk Problems . Thanks for taking the time to post your experience -- we do listen.
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I've been watching Ethan build this since pretty much day one, and it goes a long way to show how *serious* PMs take their work. Ethan (along with many others) is the primary driver for the Media Center API and this proves he eats what he specs. :-) Check
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By way of Sean Alexanders' blogroll pointer to Thomas Hawks' reference to Chris Anderson (*really* loving this whole blog thing -- it's replacing my newspaper more and more -- paradigm shift anyone?): Check out the Long Tail TV: Wishlist where Chris states
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Well, I was going to blog about these new Online Spotlight partners over the weekend, but Sean beat me to the punch. Check out his blog for details on the Discovery Channel, Yahoo, XM Radio, Fox Sports and TitanTV. I'm so lucky my team gets to work with
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Third in a series of responses to Media Center Development: What topic(s) shall I blog about next ? --> Dave Neigler: I'd like to see some samples using addins and html apps to communicate with web services (WSE2) hosted via http.sys (instantiated
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Second in a series of responses to Media Center Development: What topic(s) shall I blog about next ? --> Niels: An idea: In a number of countries (like Denmark...) we don't have tv-guides in MCE2005. So we are forced to rely on the build-in screen
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First in the series of responses to Media Center Development: What topic(s) shall I blog about next ? --> Henry: How about telling us a way how to skin the MCE? Officially there is no way to skin Media Center. [We do hear this request multiple times,
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Michael mentioned this over at his blog and I have yet to pile on -- if you want the original details go here . Sean tells me I'm in for one heck of a fun ride, so I'm looking forward to this and hope to see you there. Like Mike, I'll be wearing a black
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A common theme in media applications and services running inside Windows XP Media Center Edition is displaying metadata (Track Name, Artist, Album, etc.). Media Center APIs make it pretty easy to get this information without the use of an embedded Windows
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Just a quick heads up in advance -- myself and several others from the Windows eHome team (makers of Windows XP Media Center Edition) will be at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 6 - 9, 2005. Great opportunity to sit and
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I'm interested to know what topics you might like for me to cover here regarding developing for Windows XP Media Center Edition in the coming weeks. If you read this blog and want to see a particular topic covered, please provide feedback.
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Working through some more stuff in purposeful design for the Media Center platform gave me the chance to enhance understanding of the mouse transport and navigation bars... The design template (see the Demystifying Scale in Media Center Hosted HTML Applications
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