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Listen Here (mp3) This week I have the final interviews from CES, Vidabox’s Steven Cheung talks about the touchpad, bluray servers and their Media Center systems and Warner Crocker talks Netbooks and the demise of UMPCs I also have email and a round up of the news Addin Reviews can now be posted...
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Listen Here (mp3) This week I have the final interviews from CES, Vidabox’s Steven Cheung talks about the touchpad, bluray servers and their Media Center systems and Warner Crocker talks Netbooks and the demise of UMPCs I also have email and a round up of the news Addin Reviews can now be posted...
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Listen Here (mp3) I have a great show this week, I have an interview with Microsoft’s Scott Evans talking about the New American Home which includes a whole home Media Center solution and I have The Digital Lifestyle.com Awards show recorded live at CES. The recording features bloggers and enthusiasts...
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Listen Here (mp3) I have a great show this week, I have an interview with Microsoft’s Scott Evans talking about the New American Home which includes a whole home Media Center solution and I have The Digital Lifestyle.com Awards show recorded live at CES. The recording features bloggers and enthusiasts...
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As you will have seen from the press release Microsoft had a lot of Media Center technologies in the New American Home, I saw at least 8 Media Center screens as well as a load of Xbox 360 being used as Extenders, a fantastic home theatre system and a ton of home automation. While I was at the home I...
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While at CES I carried a little Flip Mimo around with me and recorded various random clips from the show floor. Here are the things included in the video (or order of appearance) Bloggers HP photo frames, netbooks and TouchSmart Logitec Harmony 1110 Lenovo notebook with slideout side monitor Windows...
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Listen Here (mp3) I had a great time at CES, it was good to see Windows Media Center looking so well on Windows 7. I have an interesting selection of interviews taken from CES. There is Gordon van Zuiden from Cybermanor , Lenovo talking consumers products, Todd Headrick from the Windows Home Server team...
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Listen Here (mp3) I had a great time at CES, it was good to see Windows Media Center looking so well on Windows 7. I have an interesting selection of interviews taken from CES. There is Gordon van Zuiden from Cybermanor , Lenovo talking consumers products, Todd Headrick from the Windows Home Server team...
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For the last 3 years I visited the NextGen home at CES, this year due to timing issues I had to give it it a miss (and I saw something way better that I can’t talk about yet) Fortunately Microsoft’s Pete Brown captured some video : 2009 CES NextGen home tour Part I 2009 CES NextGen home tour...
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On10 have a video of Windows Media Center with Microsoft’s Ben Reed. Ben shows off the UI in Windows 7,some of the new TV features,Turbo Scroll and Play To CES 2009: Windows Media Center on Windows 7 with Touch
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Vidabox had a great suite at CES, they have a great range of products for high end installs including a 16TB RackServer, wall mounted touch panels and a great 8 inch touch tablet called the vPad8 . In this video Steven Cheug gives us a demo of the vPad which can control multiple Media Center systems...
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If you want the full power of the PC on your TV but want to keep things simple then the Allio all in one HDTV PC could be want you want. On the show floor I saw a demo of the Allio 42 inch unit and the Allio 32 inch which has an integrated touch screen. The Allio works great with Media Center and its...
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If you want the full power of the PC on your TV but want to keep things simple then the Allio all in one HDTV PC could be want you want. On the show floor I saw a demo of the Allio 42 inch unit and the Allio 32 inch which has an integrated touch screen. The Allio works great with Media Center and its...
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It’s the end of a long and tiring week but it has been fantastic. As ever one of the best things about CES is catching up with old friends. The highlight for me was The Digital Lifestyle.com party, it was great to meet everybody. The facilities at Cntrstg were great, the whole week it was the best...
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At The Digital Lifestyle.com Party last night we had a great time, we recorded a round table and talked through the results of The Digital Lifestyle.com Awards (you will be able to hear the results on The Media Center Show in a couple of weeks) It was great being able to meet readers and listeners and...
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I have talked about Grid Search on the podcast before and today I met Jonathan Bowes from Grid Search at CES. Jonathan game be a demo of how it works and its an application that needs to be seen to understand. You can very easily find the segment in a video you want to watch, watch pulp fiction and jump...
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I have talked about Grid Search on the podcast before and today I met Jonathan Bowes from Grid Search at CES. Jonathan game be a demo of how it works and its an application that needs to be seen to understand. You can very easily find the segment in a video you want to watch, watch pulp fiction and jump...
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I think Windows Media Center is the best way to experience touch in Windows 7, the big buttons are ideal. In the beta build of Windows 7 Microsoft have enabled the touch with in Media Center and it works very well. This video shows if off much better than I can explain it. Direct Download (WMV) –...
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I think Windows Media Center is the best way to experience touch in Windows 7, the big buttons are ideal. In the beta build of Windows 7 Microsoft have enabled the touch with in Media Center and it works very well. This video shows if off much better than I can explain it. Direct Download (WMV) –...
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If you want an overview of how Media Center looks in Windows 7 checkout Ben Read’s video taken by Joseph Tartakoff of Seatle PI LAS VEGAS -- Ben Reed of Microsoft's Connected TV Business showed off for me this morning what Windows Media Center will looks like in Windows 7. Windows Media Center...
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Today I chatted to a number of people from Microsoft,OEMs and enthusiasts about Windows Media Center announcements at CES and I was disappointed that Media Center wasn’t shown in the keynote but Microsoft’s Ben Reed point out to me that in the keynote Windows Media Center on screen as one...
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Today I interviews Todd Headrick from the Home Server team, the interview will be included in a future show but I thought I would post a couple of thoughts and some pictures of the Home Servers on show in Microsoft’s Press room. The first thing that came over from Todd is how well the Windows Home...
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Microsoft had plenty of screens showing Windows Media Center at CES, in terms of Extenders there was only an Xbox 360 which speaks volumes for what is happening in that area. They had a HP TouchSmart showing off the touch elements of the new build of Media Center as well as a little netbook running Windows...
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I managed to track down Toshiba’s new Media Center Extender yesterday, it looks like a standard DVD player and in terms of performance from the very brief demo I saw it looked very much like Linksys or D-Link extenders. The pictures are of the prototype unit and it should be shipping in the 2nd...
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...a Windows-enabled and Web-connected coffee maker! This is now officially my favourite thing to come out of CES 09. It's a prototype from Fugoo , but I can imagine something like this becoming more common place. I'm kinda obsessed by coffee and I'm trying to automate my Gagia cubica a bit...
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One of the main benefits for Windows 7 for Media Center users is the Home Group feature. This enables content sharing between machines and you can use the Play To feature to play music or video on another devices or PC on your network. Today at CES Microsoft’s Mike Seamons demoed the features and...
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One of the main benefits for Windows 7 for Media Center users is the Home Group feature. This enables content sharing between machines and you can use the Play To feature to play music or video on another devices or PC on your network. Today at CES Microsoft’s Mike Seamons demoed the features and...
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I have a meeting with Vidabox while I am CES so I will be interviewing Steven Chung and recording some video of the new products, the tablet looks great. If you have any question for Vidabox leave a comment and I will pass them on the Steven. Here are some of the details put out by Vidabox (CES) New...
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Last night I went to Digital Experience a kind of mini CES for press. I took some photos and video and here are a selection of the photos including the new Harmony 1100 remote View Full Album This is the first time I have tried the Windows Live photo album
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The Mediaroom team have some interesting stuff coming out, I will take a look at it today and this is their Press Release: LAS VEGAS — Jan. 8, 2009 — At 2009 International CES today, Microsoft Corp. unveiled Mediaroom Anytime, a groundbreaking feature set for the Microsoft Mediaroom multimedia and IPTV...
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Listen Here (mp3) This week I am at CES in Las Vegas and so I thought I would do a wrap up of the news since the last show, my thoughts from the keynote and a couple of interviews some familiar faces I bumped in to. You can watch the keynote on Microsoft.com Addin Reviews can now be posted directly on...
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Listen Here (mp3) This week I am at CES in Las Vegas and so I thought I would do a wrap up of the news since the last show, my thoughts from the keynote and a couple of interviews some familiar faces I bumped in to. You can watch the keynote on Microsoft.com Addin Reviews can now be posted directly on...
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The news continues to come out from CES and on The Home Server Blog there are details of some of the new Windows Home Server OEMS and existing OEMS that are updating there ranges. It’s great to see new manufactures like Acer and Shuttle joining the Home Server party. More info will be available tomorrow...
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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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I have just come from Samsung's CES Press Conference and what that noticeable was the compete lack of Media Center Extender. They annoucned a new range of LED HD TVs that have Yahoo's TV widgets built in that enables web content on the TVs, things like Facebook, flickr and other services based...
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This came a bit out of the blue, it looks like Toshiba are to build extenders in to some of their TVs and standalone units. It’s great to see a new Extender coming out and hopefully I will be able to see it in person while I am CES. Thanks to Derek for the tip Toshiba to Build on Its Collaboration...
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Well my friends, if you are just like me and not lucky enough to go to CES well there is another option. You won’t get to experience the Las Vegas weather, but you can watch the Ballmer / Bach keynote show right here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/ces/default.mspx at 2:30 am UK time...
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I seem to have hundreds of press release emails about CES but this one looked interesting. D-Link are bringing out a all in one router / photo frame, NAS and Media Server. This would be either a genius or a complete disaster, I will be taking a look at it in person on Friday. Here is the press release...
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Almost 24 hours after leaving my house I have arrived in Las Vegas for CES. This is the first time I travelled with the EEE PC and I was impressed with how handy it was while I was sat in departure lounges, combined with a 3G dongle and it was great for checking email with the minimum of fuss. This is...