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BBC Content now on Zune Market place

What a week! Zune HD, Sky on XBox (and Bing!) and now it seems that BBC America content (which is much of the BBCs flagship content) is now available through the Zune Market place. It includes Torchwood, Dr Who, Top Gear and other favorites… What...

Published Thu, May 28 2009 9:04 PM by simonster

SkyTV On yer XBox - Comming soon

Thanks to @techlifeweb for the tip off on this on Twitter. Team Bag have an interesting post about SkyTV comming to Xbox live. It seems that Sky and Microsoft have got an exclusive deal and frankly this is massive news for the UK where Sky delivers lots...

Published Thu, May 28 2009 2:54 PM by simonster

Zune HD along with Zune services for Xbox

Well folks it’s been announced, at E3, the new Zune HD is on it’s way and it looks just like the predictions, and quite nice it is too…although I wish there was more news on the games front… Zune will extend its video service...

Published Wed, May 27 2009 9:52 AM by simonster

Filed under: zune

BBC video on Microsoft’s Future home

Just stumbled over this on twitter but unfortunately I don’t remember who from, sorry. The beeb have been to Microsoft’s future house to look at some of the tech that might be coming into our homes in the future, the video is here There’s some clever...

Published Wed, May 13 2009 12:10 PM by simonster

Filed under: other

Streaming Media in Windows 7 – network settings

One useful bit of information that we’ve not yet discussed is how to configure your network for streaming from Windows 7 over the Internet. The configuration is really simple, but it can depend on what type of router you have on your home network...

Published Tue, May 12 2009 6:21 PM by simonster

Filed under: Play To

Mega Post on Streaming Media

Not much to say here other than to draw your attention to it, but over on the E7 blog there’s a very long, detailed post on the Streaming Media functions of Windows 7. There’s not much new information in there, but it’s a great intro for anyone...

Published Tue, May 12 2009 12:36 PM by simonster

Filed under: Windows 7, Play To

Recording programs that are off the air

Ian tweeted Friday about a TV show in the UK called Newswipe, unfortunately just a day after the series ended. Now I know that I can catch up on it using TunerFree MCE but I wanted to make sure that I don’t miss it again – it’s funny, but it’s already...

Published Sun, May 03 2009 5:52 PM by simonster

Filed under: media center

Streaming in Windows 7 – PlayTo with play lists

It’s not just individual media files that can be played over the network with PlayTo, whole playlists can be sent to other machines too. There are a couple of things you need to do, first make sure you have a machine running as a Digital Media Server...

Published Sat, May 02 2009 10:02 AM by simonster

Filed under: Play To

Streaming Media in Windows 7 – Streaming your collection over the Internet

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Published Fri, May 01 2009 6:04 PM by simonster

Filed under: Play To

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Zune HD along with Zune services for Xbox

BBC video on Microsoft’s Future home

Streaming Media in Windows 7 – network settings

Mega Post on Streaming Media

Recording programs that are off the air

Streaming in Windows 7 – PlayTo with play lists

Streaming Media in Windows 7 – Streaming your collection over the Internet

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