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I've just installed KB961367 which I downloaded from here and now I can play DVR-MS files in Media Center 7 without it crashing!
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I only just posted about Sony’s 8” netbook / fully functional Media Center and it seems that Asus have trumped Sony! How? They’ve got the biggest SSD ever in this thing, 512gb – wow. It’s also slightly thinner. This one has been announced as coming with Windows 7, and a massive price...
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Well if you’re not already running Windows 7, build 7000 or “the Beta” then you can download it tomorrow. The usual warnings about it being beta apply, but it is pretty stable. There is already a patch out though that you will really want to apply to protect your music collection, without it your...
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They say a picture speaks a thousand words so here's one of my pictures. Full Screen View here We have been playing around with the new native Movie Library in Media Center 7 that replaces the DVD Library in Vista. It's still a little buggy in places but I have to say it's a massive improvement...
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Microsoft have announced the availability of Windows 7 beta: Windows Helps Consumers Connect to the Digital World At CES 2009, Microsoft announced advances in Windows 7 beta, Windows Mobile, Windows Live – all designed to help consumers connect and live a ‘life without walls.’ LAS VEGAS – Jan...
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ngRC (Next Generation Remote Control) was not connecting on my Windows 7 build 7000 machine. To fix it you need to go to C:\Program Files\ngrc and change the security permissions on the ngrc folder, for the Users group from Read and Execute to Modify. ngRC should then work again, you will need to go...
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I've been doing a massive amount of testing on Windows 7 Build 7000. You can follow mine and other users findings, issues, bugs and requests etc on this thread here . The lastest thing I've been testing is which file formats play in Media Center now? Both on Media Center on the PC and in Media...
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I recently installed Windows 7 Build 7000 (Beta1) This is an important mile stone build and is the first Windows 7 build I have installed, I thought it was time I started testing Media Center out in Windows 7. So far I have to say I'm pretty unimpressed, granted I've mainly been looking at WMP12...
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Listen Here (mp3) This week I am talking to Windows expert Ed Bott about Window 7, there is a lot to look forward to in 2009 with Windows 7 and I talk to Ed about the new version of Windows and how the development process for Windows 7 differs from Windows Vista. I also have email, news items and some...
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On the Engineering Windows 7 blog there is a detailed post on HomeGroups in Windows 7 . Home Groups should make it much easier to share content between machines around the home, including sharing content between Windows Media Center system, I think it will be one of the best features for users with multiple...
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Ed Bott has a noticed that the Windows 7 page on Microsoft.com that has a link to download the Windows 7 Beta which at the moment doesn’t go anywhere. My guess is a beta will be out for Steve Ballmer’s kenote at CES on January 7th (which I will be attending) and that maybe a smaller group...
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Really interesting article here on ZDnet where the latest build of Windows 7 has been benchmarked. On the kit they tested on Windows 7 (6965) booted in just 20 seconds, which is pretty darn speedy, and actually faster than XP with SP3. From our point of view the Cinebench performance gives us an inkling...
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Julie Jacobson on CE Pro has an interesting couple of articles on how with Windows 7 Microsoft are focusing on the TV features of Windows Media Center . The post With Windows 7, Media Center is All About the TV points out how Microsoft is improving on the TV features of Media Center for the new release...
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I was reading this thread on the Green Button here page 19, seems there's a newer Windows 7 build doing the rounds and here's some new screen shots of Media Center in that build. There's an option in the guide to color code shows by category. Similar movies and future recordings integrated...
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Not exactly news I know as Microsoft have been saying all along that Windows 7 beta will be ready early next year, but Ed Bott pins the date down to January 13th . I expect to see Windows 7 beta be shown off at Steve Ballmer’s CES keynote and then the public rollout to come after that. Ed says: At the...
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I keep meaning to record some video showing the Windows 7 version Windows Media Center running on my Xbox 360, I should have it down later this week. In the mean time Gizmodo have a nice top 10 list of Media Center features in Windows 7 . The screenshots aren't great but the list is good. Some of...
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Gizmodo have a nice video showing off Windows Media Center in Windows 7 being controlled by touch. This feature must be disabled in the PDC version as I couldn’t get it to work in my Q1. The UI looks very smooth and the scrolling reminds me of how HP’s TouchSmart UI works. I can’t wait to try this out...
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Long Zheng has highlighted some of the decoders built in to Windows 7. He shows how Windows 7 support additional codecs over Windows Vista, which is great as in my experience every time I download a codec pack it breaks Recorded TV playback. I was testing various formats in Windows 7 and found it would...
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When I was chatting with Steve from UMPC portal I promised a video of Windows 7 running on the Q1 and here it is, it’s just a quick look the PDC build of Windows 7 on the Q1. On the video I mentioned the audio problem and I have since given up trying to get the sound working and I am using Bluetooth...
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When I was chatting with Steve from UMPC portal I promised a video of Windows 7 running on the Q1 and here it is, it’s just a quick look the PDC build of Windows 7 on the Q1. On the video I mentioned the audio problem and I have since given up trying to get the sound working and I am using Bluetooth...
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The UMPC is an interesting form factor, I have had my Samsung Q1 for a while now and have had some good use out of it but the performance of Vista on it meant that it’s been left in a draw and the EEE PC comes with me instead. So when I got the M3 build of Windows 7 I thought installed it on the...
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Ed Bott has an interesting find about DirecTV and Windows 7. Long time follows of Media Center will remember that DirecTV announced they were bring DirecTV to Windows Media Center back at CES in 2006. Up to now there have been plenty or rumours but no real evidence it was ever going to happen, but Ed...
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I stumbled accross this audio interview with Dan Polivy from Microsoft who talks about some of the new features with SideShow in Windows 7, most notable are TCP/IP support yeah! and Touch support. "Microsoft has shown off some crazy features in Windows 7 over the past two weeks. Most of these additions...
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Listen Here (mp3) This week I am talking to Microsoft’s Charlie Owen about the new version of Windows Media Center that will ship as part of Windows 7. Last week Windows 7 was shown off for the first time and Charlie posted details of the updated Media Center on his blog . We will be talking about...
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I found a couple of interesting articles about WMP12... "Windows 7 is going to ship with an updated version of Windows Media Player, WMP 12, which we’re excited to try out. In keeping with the new look of Microsoft apps, the new Media Player features a brighter, lighter look that reminds me...
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Niall Ginsbourg the developer behind many great Windows Media Center applications has taken a first look at the Windows 7 Media Center development kit. (v6.0) It’s early days yet but I think Niall was impressed with some of the improvements and disappointed some of his wish lists items had not...
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After having successfully installed Windows 7 on my test PC I thought I would try another machine, after some encouragement via followers on Twitter I decided to give it a try on my old Samsung Q1 UMPC. This is the original Q1 with 1GB of RAM and a Celeron M processor and I have had it running Windows...
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One of the interesting new features of Windows 7 is HomeGroup and Libraries, this is the way all your machines are going to share content over the network. Brandon LeBlanc on the redesigned Windows Experience Blog explains how Libraries and HomeGroup work together . I have had a quick play with the feature...
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I haven’t had much time to play with Windows 7 yet so I thought I would post a few pictures. The installations tool under 20 minutes on my test machine and on a Hyper V session, its very much like Vista at this stage. It boots very quickly but I would expect that as there are no applications installed...
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Charlie Owen has details of the changes to the Windows Media Center Platform in Windows 7 . If you working on Media Center applications then you will want to read the details of the updates, they seem to be small improvements rather than any major changes. The Windows 7 release of the Windows Media Center...
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While the details of the Windows 7 version of Media Center are just coming out I am sure there are lots of questions about the update. I am going to be interviewing Microsoft’s Charlie Owen on The Media Center Show and I would like to get answers some of your questions answered. I am not promising to...
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HomeGroup is a new features that is going to be great for Media Center users, there is not a lot of information out about it yet but it looks interesting . It’s a way to search and share multiple PC libraries, you can link all your Windows 7 computers together so you can share music,pictures, videos...
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Charlie Owen has the best look at the new build of Windows Media Center in Windows 7. Charlie has posted details of the pre-beta build of Windows Media Center and included some detailed screenshots. It looks like for the first time since Vista Windows Media Center is going to get some visual changes...
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I wish I could be at the PDC but other commitments mean that I can’t be there so I am watching the keynote about Windows 7 over the web. I should have my hands of a build of Windows 7 soon but here are some of the interesting bits of information from the PDC: A new tabbed task bar, and docking Windows...
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I was speculating about the name of Windows 7 last week and today Microsoft surprised me by announcing the final name as Windows 7 (interesting seeing as the version is actually 6.1). Mike Nash over on the Windows Vista blog says : The decision to use the name Windows 7 is about simplicity. Over the...
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I was reading Ed Bott’s blog post about Windows 7 final name and as yet there seems not to be to much speculation on what the next version of Windows will be called. As Ed points out Windows 7 shouldn't be called Windows 7 as its real version number is Windows 6.1 (based on the Kernal version). So do...
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I wish I could have made it over to the PDC this year as it looks like it will be the first public airing for Windows 7 . Attendee’s will be given a pre -beta copy of Windows 7 and I expect a lot of Windows 7 features will be talked about at the show. I am also looking forward to hearing about Live Mesh...