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I just wanted to say Happy New Year to all readers. I hope you the new year is a good one for you, I am looking forward to seeing what 2008 brings See you at CES!
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To all readers and listeners, have a great Christmas! Lets hope you get or give plenty of gadgets.
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While there still has been no official announcements on the availability of the V2 Extenders in the UK, Lambda-tek.com are taking pre-orders for the Linksys extenders The part numbers for the European models are DMA2100-EU (£188.60 inc. VAT) and DMA2200-EU (£220.49 inc. VAT) I had a quick search around...
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The Digital Lifestyle.com video show is sponsored by Embedded Automation In this video I take a look at Tranquil's T7-HSA Home Server. This is a headless and fanless Windows Home Server. Tranquil were one of the first to market with Windows Home Server and this is a great example of the simplicity of...
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http://ustream.tv/channel/thedigitallifestylecom---live I am testing out usteam.tv for live video reviews so I thought I would test it with a quick look at Tranquil's Windows Home Server Starting now 8pm GMT / 12pm ST
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I was impressed with Tranquil PC's Windows Home Server when I saw it at Microsoft's Vista After Hours Event a couple of months ago. I was even more impressed when I found out Tranquil are based about 5 minutes down the road from my office in Manchester. Tranquil have kindly lent me an evaluation version...
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By Ian Dixon (26mb 1 hour 15mins 53sec) Vote for the show on Podcast Alley Direct Download Link - Subscribe via iTunes - Subscribe via RSS This week Nial Ginsbourg Media Center developer returns to the show to talk about his Vista Media Center applications, the process he follows when developing Media...
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I just got the great news that I have been re-awarded an MVP ( Microsoft Most Valuable Professional ) for 2008. It's a great honor to be awarded again and it's nice that The Media Center Show gets recognition. I keep doing the show as I am still passionate about Windows Media Center and the possibility...
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Peter Near has started a campaign to get try and get CableCARD or something like that introduced in to Canada.If you have Tivo or Media Center and want to get rid of your Set Top Box and live in Canada you need take a look at Peter's site Dropthebox.ca web site. Peter will be coming on to The Media Center...
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Watch this video in HQ WMV (I am testing a download service from Blip.tv so let me know if you have any problems) Subscribe to The Digital Lifestyle.com Video Show Specialtech.co.uk sent me a Omaura TF8 Home Theatre PC chassis to look at, and it was interesting to compare it to the Sony Xl302 Media Center...
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James Senior on his blog is giving away a copy of my book "Using Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center" (co-written with Tony Campbell). James is partof the team running the Vista After Hours events coming up over the next few weeks where he will be featuring Media Center, Home Server and other...
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Microsoft are touring the UK showing off some of the fun side of Windows Vista to IT professionals by looking at Media Center, Sideshow, Windows Home Server, Xbox 360 and other things. The events are run in the evening and include food and refreshments. One of the locations will be Manchester so I will...
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It looks like my DNS host is having problems, so to get to TheDigitalLifestyle.com try TheMediaCenterShow.com until the DNS problem is fixed
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If you get the dreaded three flashing red lights on your 360 and need to send it back to Microsoft for repair there is one piece of good news. Microsoft is reimbursing anyone who has experienced the “three flashing red lights” error and incurred repair expenses and new owners will get a three year warranty...
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If you have a Nitendo Wii and want to get your Media Center content on to it you can use Orb's 10 foot interface and it works very well, but it looks like there is an alternative called Wii Media Center X . You can stream video, music, pictures and files to your Wii and the server is cross platform so...
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Windows Home Server Release Candidate is live, according to the Windows Home Server Blog "we'll make the RC software available to all 100,000+ beta program applicants asap, as well as all new sign ups. " , so availability shouldn't be a problem. I will be installing it tonight and I will let...
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For anybody looking at CableCARD its well worth looking at Chris Lanier's CableCARD FAQ. He has over a dozen questions on the FAQ that should answer many CableCARD questions. Vista Media Center CableCARD FAQ Technorati tags: Windows Media Center , CableCARD
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Steven Harding has launched EMUCenter , its a Media Center program that enables you to play games from Media Center Say hello to 'EMUCenter'. It lets you create your own list of games to play from within Media Center. You can add your normal Windows games, as well as games from your old favorite machines...
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For the first time in a long time I am going on holiday (vacation for US readers!) so there will be little if any posting, I will not be completely disconnected, I am taking my Samsung Q1 UMPC with me. I am looking forward to switching off for a while, and putting my faith in my Media Center PC to record...