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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 demo for a guide on how it works. I also have your...
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On Tuesday (August 5th) I will be hosting a live Q & A with MissingRemote's Mike Garcen. Mike is a Windows Media Center MVP and an expert on Media Center. We will be talking questions on any Media Center topic from burning DVDs to getting Divx working on Media Center. So join us at 12pm PST / 8pm...
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Listen Here This week I am talking to Jason Leonardelli from Life|Ware talking about the Innoventions Dream Home at Disneyland . The project is a home of the future featuring Windows Media Center, Home Automation, Microsoft Surface and many other technologies. Jason explains the background of the project...
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Listen Here Continuing on from last weeks conversation about Extenders, Hakan Olsson from Microsoft returns to the show to talk about HP's entry into the market and the other Extenders available. I also have an interview with the winner of the HP HDX Dragon Entertainment PC, Paul was very please to win...
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Listen Here A couple of weeks ago HP updated their MediaSmart TV to add Media Center Extender functionality making it the first TV with a built in Extender, so this week I am talking to Brian Burch, Director of HP Connected Entertainment about the MediaSmart TV and the soon to be available MediaSmart...
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Listen Here Welcome to show 150! Joining me this week is Microsoft's Charlie Owen, Charlie is a Program Manager on the eHome team and his area is the Media Center Platform and the SDK. Charlie talks about how the Media Center vision has changed since the first version and how the development platform...
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Listen Here This week Galileu Vieira from Microsoft Brazil chats about how Media Center and digital lifestyle products are being used in Brazil. With the launch of Windows Vista, Media Center is officially supported in Brazil for the first time and Galileu talks about it's usage, TV executives reaction...
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Listen Here This week Microsoft's Steve Lindsay joins me to chat about his home Media Center setup and the custom developments he has been working on. Steve is involved in a program called the Microsoft Champion program and has volunteered to evangelise and support Media Center and related technologies...
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For the last three years I have run the Media Center Show Awards . The aim of the awards is to highlight the great work performed by the Media Center community. The awards are spilt into categories that represent enthusiast developers, professional developers and community websites. This year the Media...
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I am please to be able to welcome Tech.co.uk as sponsors of TheDigitalLifestyle.com and The Media Center Show . Tech.co.uk is a great source for tech related reviews, blogs and news. They focus on computing,home entertainment and gadgets and I hope to be able to add some Media Center options over there...
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Just a quick reminder that on this weeks Media Center Show (show 108) I am giving away a great prize pack The Media Center Show Prize Pack includes: A signed copy of "Using Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center" A Windows Live USB Memory Stick A Microsoft Wireless USB Mouse A Vanishing Point...
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By Ian Dixon (29.9mb 60mins 42sec) Direct Download Link - Subscribe via iTunes - Show RSS Feed This week developer Andrew Van Til joins me to talk about his Windows Media Center utilities, one of them DVRMSToolbox is a Media Center Award Show winner, and is a great tool for processing recorded TV files...
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By Ian Dixon (15.1mb 43mins 58sec) The RSS feed for the show is HERE Direct Download Link - Subscribe via iTunes This week Bill More CEO of RadioTime , an radio aggregation service for Windows joins me to talk about RadioTime and their Windows Media Center Plug in I have email and news items, plus details...
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Back in March 2005 I was looking for more information on Windows Media Center, I had started blogging about Media Center and was looking for a podcast that talked about Windows Media Center. I couldn't find one so I thought I would have a go at doing one myself. So I contacted people from the Media Center...
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As you may have seen from my blog, I had some problems with the server yesterday and have been running on a backup server for the last 24 hours, but I am please to say thanks to some great work by Tony the site it back up and running on a new server. So in the run up to show #100 the server response...
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I did an update to the server this morning and it didn't come back on as it should, so TheDigitalLifestyle.com is now running on my backup machine. It seems to be working ok and I have a nice upgraded machine building at the moment, so once that is up and running I can switch site back over. So if you...
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This morning (10am UK time) I will be upgrading the server the TheDigitaLifestyle.com is hosted on. So if you can't get on the site you know why, more info when its done Update: The site is up but running on a backup server
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In two week The Media Center Show will reach show #100 and I would love to read out your email message on the show. Any message will do (keep it clean!) but in particular I would like to hear how Media Center has changed how your interaction with your digital media. Has it changed the way you watch TV...
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After two years with The Podcast Network I have decided to move the show to my own site TheDigitalLifestyle.com To take the show forward and increase its value to the community I wanted to have the Podcast, the video show, the blogs and the forums all together on one site. I have enjoyed my time with...
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Over on The Media Center Show Extra site I have posted Show #9. This is the final Extra show from CES 2007, and on this show I talked to Jonathan Sass from Simplifi Digital . We look at their Media Center Expander card that enables you to have AV devices going directly in to Media Center and one of there...
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I have a new give away on The Media Center Show community forums . Each week I will be giving away a copy of Pamaela Pro + mcePhone Bundle worth €29,95 I will be awarding the software to the post of the week. It could be for helping someone out or posting info of a your TV card config. So get posting...
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I have a new give away on The Media Center Show community forums . Each week I will be giving away a copy of Pamaela Pro + mcePhone Bundle worth €19.90 I will be awarding the software to the post of the week. It could be for helping someone out or posting info of a your TV card config. So get posting...
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I promised a free copy of mNewsCenter to a random poster on The Media Center Show Community forums and I have been a little slow in catching up on this, so the first winner is Simon Worth, well done to Simon. The next winner will be for the most helpful post of the week ;)
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Over on The Media Center Show Extra blog I have posted the first CES video , please Subscribe to the new RSS feed for the Extra show The Media Center Show Extra #6 CES Part 1 This is my first video from CES. Tim Cutting from Niveus and I walked around the Microsoft and Intel booths with the video camera...