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I meant… “Extenders for Windows Media Center” Me

I joined the Media Center Extender team right at the tail end of development, and I’ve been nothing but impressed with the new Extenders. We are starting to see some press roll out as well: http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/06/microsoft-debuts-extenders-for-windows-media-center-adds-divx-a/. Hm… divx support… pretty sweet - who knew? J

What I’d really like to see now is DVD managed copy + remoting and WMV bookmarking… I was happily surprised to see the latter supported with the last Xbox dash update when streaming over WMC. No reason we couldn’t add that to MCE/MCX…

Anyone agree/disagree? Any other ideas?

Posted: Thursday, September 06, 2007 4:40 PM by errand

Comments

JackLuminous said:

Yup, if actual DivX and XVid support is being added to the extender (looks like MS might be coming around to seeing what format's really 'popular'), then

DVD streaming from the DVD Library would rock!. Not having that one is a deal-breaker for me.

# September 6, 2007 12:56 PM

errand said:

Thanks for the feedback, Jack.

One other great feature I forgot to mention - the quietness of these devices. Divx + quiet are the two reasons I will go buy one of these when they're released, even though I already have and (heavily) use my 360 as an Extender.

# September 11, 2007 9:45 PM
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