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The Windows 7 release of the Windows Media Center platform focuses primarily on small, targeted improvements to the Windows Media Center Presentation Layer and additions to the managed code object model to make all applications (with greater emphasis...
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If you are attending the 2008 Professional Developers Conference you received a pre-beta Windows 7 build today (6801) which contains many features the Windows Media Center team has been developing over the past year. It’s my pleasure to take a few minutes...
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Listen Here (mp3) This week I am talking to Jonathan Bowes about GridSearch , Gridsearch is a new visual way to search through video files that will make finding any scene in a movie very simple and just a few button presses. Have a look at the video...
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I mentioned the two updates for Windows Media Center that were put out on Windows Updates this week and Microsoft have released details of the update. On my test system the TV Pack update was installed and then cumulative update has been offered as a...
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Microsoft has released the October 2008 Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista on 14th October,2008. This update rollup is intended for computers that are running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate. In addition to the fixes...
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Microsoft has released the Cumulative Update for Media Center TV Pack for Windows Vista on 14th October,2008. This update rollup is intended for computers that are running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate with the Media Center TV Pack...
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October 2008 Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista (KB955519) Fixes an issue in which you cannot seek through recorded TV shows on Windows Media Center systems that have digital cable tuners. Additionally, the recorded TV shows display...
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Remember the beta Windows Media Center gadget for Windows Sideshw that released back in July? ( see the review on the gadget blog ) well Microsoft have put out a Release Candidate of the gadget and It looks like it now supports Extenders. The updated...
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Listen Here (mp3) Last week was the CEDIA show, a show for high end custom installers with likes of Niveus and Life|Ware showing off 10 extender based systems. This week I have Kevin Collins, director of the Custom Installer Channel in the Connected TV...
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Remember the guide on how to stream DVDs to Extenders? The guide works well but it is a pain to create the link files necessary for streaming to work. Fortunately a cleaver developer has created a utility to simplify the process and has created an updated...
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Listen Here (mp3) Back after a week off, this week talking with blogger and podcast Kevin Tofel talking about Cloud Computing. Kevin recently switched to only using web based apps and we chatted about what is Cloud Computing, the security risks around...
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TV Manager is a Windows Home Server add-in that lets you move your recordings to your Windows Home Server for management and storage, something that I wish WHS had built in out of the box. Version 1 is out of beta and works with XP and Vista and is a...
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Listen Here (mp3) This week I am talking to Scott Scott Bahneman, CEO of MusicGiants about their HD audio and video services that can deliver high quality music and videos directly in to Windows Media Center. As more of us connect Media Center up to AV...
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CE Pro have their take on the TV Feature pack, they have nice details on some of the new features including PlayReady , how QAM support works and the new TV format. TV Pack is still shrouded in secrecy. OEMs still are not allowed to talk about its innate...
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Don’t forget to join Ed Bott and myself for the live caht today talking about the new Windows Media Center TV Feature Pack. I know there are a lot of questions about the update and Ed will do his best to answer them. Head over to Yahoo Live at 12pm PST...