Microsoft Coder's Media Life

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Release Candidate available to the public

Yey at last it's here for you all to try too, I've been running this a while now and it rocks. I made a full post on my on10.net blog. You can read it and follow the link there to download PP1 RC! http://www.on10.net/blogs/EnglishBloke/Windows-Home-Server...

Published Mon, Jun 09 2008 3:58 PM by SteveLindsay

Filed under: WHS, Microsoft, Winndows Home Server, PowerPack

Automatically backup Media Center recordings.xml every time it's changed.

I noticed a few people complaining about corrupt recordings.xml files recently, I've been hurt by having this file corrupt on me before so I know the pain (in fact in my case both the recordings.xml and the .bak in the same folder both got crushed). So...

Published Sun, Jun 08 2008 6:02 AM by SteveLindsay

Filed under: Steve Lindsay, Media Center, Recordings.xml, Backup

New ATI Firmware update for OCUR tuners!

ATI have finally released a new firmware for the TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner aka OCUR box, this is the OCUR box which is pretty much shipping with all OCUR media center setup's right now, including the XPS420. Note the firmware update is only for 32bit...

Published Wed, Jun 04 2008 11:29 AM by SteveLindsay

Filed under: Steve Lindsay, Media Center, XPS420, Vista, 1.17.1, ATI Tuner, Digital Cable Card, OCUR

TODAY ONLY: Amazing Deal on Dell XPS 420 - $1098 +free shipping with 20" monitor

I just found an amazing deal which ends today over at Dell, you can pick up a Dell XPS 420 system with the following spec for $1098.... PROCESSOR Core™2 Q6600 Quad-Core (8MB L2 cache,2.4GHz,1066FSB) OPERATING SYSTEM Windows Vista® Home Premium with Digital...

Published Sat, Mar 29 2008 2:29 PM by SteveLindsay

Filed under: Media Center, Cheap, March 29th 2008, AMAZING DEAL, XPS420

Paul Thurrot's (non) review of Linksys Extenders on his Windows Weekly show.

It's not often I write a blog post to publicly disagree with another bloggers (non) review of a product (I say non-review as it was pretty much a flame and total non recommendation for Linksys extenders, with Paul saying on his Windows Weekly show that...

Published Fri, Mar 21 2008 11:37 PM by SteveLindsay

Filed under: Media Center, Linksys Extender, Paul Thurrot, Windows Weekly, Extenders

Win my Zune!

I decided to donate my Zune 2, 8 gig for this competition. This is MY actual zune, i've been using since release with a custom engraving. The grand prize is an XBox 360 Elite and other prizes will include Media Center software and my Zune. So what are...

Published Wed, Mar 19 2008 12:11 AM by SteveLindsay

Filed under: Media Center, Zune, Prize, Win

An ironic goodbye to HD-DVD - Tuesday Paramount releases the last 2 HD-DVD's before switching completely to Blu-Ray

Paramount are due to release their final 2 HD-DVD's on Tuesday. The final titles will be 'Into the Wild' and the ironically named 'Things We Lost in the Fire'. However if Paramounts final release wasn't Ironic enough. The first movie released on DVD was...

Published Sat, Mar 01 2008 8:05 PM by SteveLindsay

Filed under: Paramount, Twister, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray

Eeek! Stage6.divx.com going down on Wednesday!

So it looks like divx.com have decided to shutdown Stage6. This is sad news, I was about to release my Stage6 plugin for Media Center along with the source code. Unfortunately this is obviously pointless now, so what I'll do instead is choose a new source...

Published Mon, Feb 25 2008 2:08 PM by SteveLindsay

Filed under: Media Center, Stage 6, divx.com

My Media Center video made the Media Center Homepage!

Wow check this out, I was looking at the updated community links and saw myself on the Media Center home page. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/mediacenter/getstarted/community.mspx

Published Mon, Feb 25 2008 11:53 AM by SteveLindsay

Kitchen Media Center Extender

So I finally got enough time the last few days to build my Kitchen Media Center system using the new Linksys V2 Extender and a Sharp 13" Aquos TV. I used a custom mount and then used a VESA mounting kit to fit it to the bottom of a corner cabinet in my...

Published Thu, Feb 21 2008 12:50 PM by SteveLindsay

Filed under: Media Center, Linksys Extender, Sharp Aquos, Kitchen

Hi Guys, A quick introduction

Hi everyone, some of you already know me from around the community, I'm the silent one who sits and makes the occasional stealth post now and then over at the Green Button. My nick name is Lindz, so don't be surprised if I sign emails with it sometimes...

Published Fri, Feb 08 2008 11:19 AM by SteveLindsay

Filed under: Champion, MCML, Windows Home Server, Steve Lindsay, MCE, WHS, Microsoft, Media Center

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