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Update on Engadget HD's Media Center Update story

It looks like Engadget HD have some details on potential future updates on Media Center:

The update expected this month is mainly focused around International support, which has evidently really been lacking up until now. The Japanese can expect ISDB-T and BML support, while the Europeans can look forward to new support for DVB-T and DVB-S tuners as well as MHEG for interactive television; and finally as we mentioned before, the US is finally getting native clear QAM support. At the same time every country can expect to see improvements for; TV viewing, recording, and playback. The biggest features in the update we're looking forward to though is heterogeneous tuner support, which was explained to us as the ability to use any combination of tuners (NTSC, ATSC, QAM, CableCARD, DVB-T, PAL, or DVB-S etc).

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Posted Jul 08 2008, 11:04 PM by Ian Dixon
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Jim wrote re: Update on Engadget HD's Media Center Update story
on 07-09-2008 3:47 AM

Opening sentence should read "It looks like Engadget HD _has_ some details" ... again, subject-verb plurality agreement.  :)

adrian davies wrote re: Update on Engadget HD's Media Center Update story
on 07-09-2008 11:09 AM

just moved to vista on my media center, and wasnt that impressed from the move from mce 2005, and i was thinking again to move to xp with media portal, so that i could use my dual dvb-t/dual dvb-s card (i.e. for i could get bbchd (in the uk).

this news may delay that with the ability to use both device in my machine

Brad wrote re: Update on Engadget HD's Media Center Update story
on 07-09-2008 2:41 PM

Wait...  A fair chunk of Fiji will be released THIS month?!?  Seems a bit earlier than I expected.

So, we can expect heterogenous tuners and QAM support in a couple weeks?

I wonder if my old ATI 650 tuner can now be used for both ATSC and NTSC programming?

Ian's Digital Lifestyle wrote Post Roundup
on 07-10-2008 1:42 PM

Back with another post round up with some rumours on future updates, Media Center university videos and...

Adam wrote re: Update on Engadget HD's Media Center Update story
on 07-11-2008 10:46 AM

Hang on a moment... I don't really understand all this MHEG stuff, but does this mean that UK Freeview "red button" type interactive stuff might be working on my Vista Extender soon?!  Oh.. that would be nice! (although I'm so use to not using it, I'll probably forget).

What about subtitles?  That would be very, very nice.

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