March 2007 - Posts
With the recent release AppleTV alot of tech writers have been giving it high praise. I haven't used it myself yet so I can't say if it's deserved or not, but with the release of the Xbox 360 Elite someone actually gave the MCX functioanlity in the Xbox
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Last night I went to set up a series recording for the second season of Gene Simmon's Family Jewels (a guilty pleasure) and was greeted by an error stating that the broadcaster was preventing recording of the show. Needless to say I was quite shocked
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Jessica Zahn answers the question about v1 Extenders, Vista and rebates over on The Green Button.
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As I’m sure most of you know initial setup/connectivity is the biggest issues with MCX. One of the primary reasons setup fails is because of 3 rd party firewalls installed on the Media Center PC blocking the ports we need. MCX setup will configure Windows
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KinchE over at Charlie Owen's blog asks the following question: My question is: What, if anything, is keeping Microsoft from formally supporting H.264 in MCE and Pika? PS I would love to hear news about v.2 MCX ("Pika") boxes. I'd be happy to see Softsled
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Apparently I didn't configure things correctly for you to leave comments. Comments should now be working. Thanks Blake for the heads up.
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We've gotten a few reports where people had MCX working with MCE2005, upgraded to Vista and then lost connectivity. This is due to a couple of bugs in the upgrade code and MCX setup. To fix this issue: 1. In an elevated command window, type mmc 2. In
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I'll start things off by answering the 2 most common questions I see posted on the various blogs: When will we see 3rd party Extenders? We nor our OEM partners have anything public to say as of release dates. The only official comment we have is under
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I've been trolling around people's blogs long enough so I figured I'd give this blogging thing a whirl... I'm a PM on Media Center Extender and hope to use this blog to talk about Extender, home networking and digital media distribution. I currently own
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