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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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One of the big things at CES is netbooks, and the big trend is towards “beefier” netbooks capable of running more modern OS’s. Sony have released details of a netbook they’ve been teasing the world with for weeks. The new netbook fits inside an envelope and looks super cool, with a Black...
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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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Hopefully Ian will be able to get us some more details on this baby from CES over the next couple of days. I’m currently thinking about an upgrade for my remote, currently a Harmony 525 which has been super for a while and has become even more capable with my new HD TV. It comes at a great time...
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Over Christmas Martin Millman was working hard on TunerFree MCE and he’s come out with a fantastic looking new interface. Far nicer than selecting the channel based on just a text menu TunerFree MCE now has a nice graphic for each channel. Viewing by Dates has also been improved in the same way...
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Martin Millman has just released something people have been after for a while, a 64bit version of his TunerFree MCE software. It’s best explained in Martin’s own words: I've known for some time that people using a 64bit version of Vista have to really jump through hoops to use TunerFree...
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The Guardian rescently published an article that’s a really interesting development in the IPTV world in the UK. It seems that other broadcasters outside of the Beeb are looking at using the iPlayer to distribute their own programming, Channel 4 and ITV being the biggest players. This is fantastic...
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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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I just picked up on this post by our friend Mark McCall over at Automated Home about SKY TV now offering a subscription based service of 9 of it's channels, including SKY Sports over the Internet. Streaming is courtesy of Silverlight, anyone noticed how the established media companies are jumping...
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Last week we launched the signup for the user group. We’ve had great success and we’ve started to plan the events. We still need to know what people want though, so please have a look at the two polls, Where and When and also give me some feedback as to what you’d like to hear about...
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In case you’ve not noticed the new live services have launched over the past day or so, basically turning Live into a kind of social network, time will tell how good that gets. What did come along with everything else is a major update to the way Photo’s are dealt with, which in my opinion...
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I thought I should draw a little attention to these two related bits of info that popped up on The Digital Lifestyle in the past 24 hours. Kingtone threw this tip off into the forums last night , it’s a tip off for those who missed it about a great blog article discussing how you can really get...
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I was scrolling down engadget earlier today and I spotted this cool little device that they just reviewed . It’s a 7-inch display that works as a second monitor on your PC, it’s from Korea and hard to get hold of. Why’s that so cool? Well they’re really sharp and the top of the range...
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If you’re in the UK and you fancy getting together to talk about Media Center and Home Server just like Ian and I posted earlier, then head on over and join the User Group . I’ve posted the first question in the forum for the group about when we’d like to meet…there will be another question tomorrow...
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Tonight I decided to try out Video Browser. I’ve got to say I’m really impressed, it’s a great add-in for watching your video. I actually picked it up to try it out for the the TV, and it’s pretty cool, you can download it here and it’s best to read the Wiki to get it setup...
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I know I keep blogging about this but one of my favourite add-ins is a favourite because the developer, Martin, is just so fantastic about getting updates out. Updates are important particularly with a service like iPlayer where the BBC is pushing the boundaries and updating frequently. Martin...
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Channel 8 is the Microsoft blogging channel aimed at people who haven’t quite entered the tech industry yet, student types. It’s kind of a mix of IT Pro, Home and Developer news. Right now Max Zukerman is writing a series of posts about building a HTPC, the posts are interesting enough but...
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You probably know that I’m a huge fan of TunerFree MCE . Well it’s been updated with the following since my last post about it: Stopped BBC programs from playing twice when navigating away and back again. Update for new BBC changes. Play BBC high resolution feeds by default. Added an option to...
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Over on the Windows 7 Engineering blog today the team are posting some great “insider” information about Windows 7 and how the team are designing it. Today’s post is all about design considerations around disk space usage, and with Windows having been getting bigger and bigger and bigger over the...
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A couple of people have posted comments around the site over the past week about how they’d like to be able to do all the “normal” stuff in the title with non-Microsoft video formats. Well me too, and I can. A while a go I was getting so annoyed at this that I decided to do some digging...
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Lifehacker have posted about PlayOn which can stream Hulu and some other services to your XBox and a host of other stuff. I've just signed up for the Beta and installed it...but first a word from PlayOn about how it works: MediaMall's PlayOn software is a DLNA / UPnP media server and browser...
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In a press release today , presumably partly timed around PDC, Netflix have announced that they’re going to start streaming TV and Movies using Silverlight to deliver the content instantly. Why have Netflix chosen Silverlight, well it looks like two reasons PlayReady gives them built in DRM It’s...
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A couple of days ago I got an XBox 360, the one with the 60gb drive. Now I’m wondering what I should do with it! I’ve used Ian’s guide to get it running as an extender, currently it’s sitting right next to my Media Center so it’s not Extending very far! Eventually it’s...
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A while ago, actually 11 months ago, I was given a 12 month subscription to OneCare. I have to say I was kinda dubious about using Microsoft’s own anti-virus, I can actually remember back to the “anti-virus” that came along with Windows 3.11. After 11 months of use, I now think OneCare is...
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There are loads of ways out there for you to view your archived TV. There are some great addins like myTV but I’m currently much happier just using the Video Library, but it looks a bit better than normal! I’ve arranged my Videos into two folders, Films and TV Shows. I keep films in there...
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I was reminded of this a few moments ago whilst doing something totally unrelated thinking about some friends who’ve just had a new baby…Can you get an old baby?…Anyway just before the stalk came along their laptop died, luckily they’d copied everything to an external hard drive (not actually everything...
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Hi there, I’m Simon. I’m a PC, but I’ don’t work for Microsoft. I love what my PC lets me do. I love the way that I’ve been able to gather all my digital stuff together in my home and and can do it all from the comfort of my sofa. I love that I have a slick interface. I love that I...
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This is for anyone wondering if they should be buying a Wireless N router that is 2.4 GHz only or if buying one on the Dual Band (2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz) routers is worth the extra cost. Before the Dual Band routers became easily available, I purchased a Linksys WRT330N. It worked great for me, until recently...
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Hello again everyone. Today we are going to take a look at the Windows Media Center SideShow Gadget Beta that Ian blogged about a few days ago, and he even mentioned on his latest Podcast #164. To start off with, the mobile device that I used is the Motorola Q9M, which is running Windows Mobile 6.0....
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I noticed a few people complaining about corrupt recordings.xml files recently, I've been hurt by having this file corrupt on me before so I know the pain (in fact in my case both the recordings.xml and the .bak in the same folder both got crushed). So backing it up is probably a good idea. There are...
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ATI have finally released a new firmware for the TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner aka OCUR box, this is the OCUR box which is pretty much shipping with all OCUR media center setup's right now, including the XPS420. Note the firmware update is only for 32bit Vista The firmware update specifically deals with...
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A few things real quick: 1. I know this does not follow suit with my first post but I am just starting to get into the grove here and my posting account would not work with Windows Live Writer... It seems that i am not getting something right 2. That this is related to Marine and Aviation as blue tooth...
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I just found an amazing deal which ends today over at Dell, you can pick up a Dell XPS 420 system with the following spec for $1098.... PROCESSOR Core™2 Q6600 Quad-Core (8MB L2 cache,2.4GHz,1066FSB) OPERATING SYSTEM Windows Vista® Home Premium with Digital Cable Support MEMORY 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM...
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It's not often I write a blog post to publicly disagree with another bloggers (non) review of a product (I say non-review as it was pretty much a flame and total non recommendation for Linksys extenders, with Paul saying on his Windows Weekly show that the Linksys devices are ''So bad that I cannot recommend...
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I decided to donate my Zune 2, 8 gig for this competition. This is MY actual zune, i've been using since release with a custom engraving. The grand prize is an XBox 360 Elite and other prizes will include Media Center software and my Zune. So what are you waiting for!?, get your camera out and lets see...
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So it looks like divx.com have decided to shutdown Stage6. This is sad news, I was about to release my Stage6 plugin for Media Center along with the source code. Unfortunately this is obviously pointless now, so what I'll do instead is choose a new source site, change the app to support that and then...
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So I finally got enough time the last few days to build my Kitchen Media Center system using the new Linksys V2 Extender and a Sharp 13" Aquos TV. I used a custom mount and then used a VESA mounting kit to fit it to the bottom of a corner cabinet in my Kitchen and set about installing. It came out nice...
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Hi everyone, some of you already know me from around the community, I'm the silent one who sits and makes the occasional stealth post now and then over at the Green Button. My nick name is Lindz, so don't be surprised if I sign emails with it sometimes :) I am a Microsoft employee and technical enthusiast...
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OK, although this isn't about GENERAL Media Center development and is more of a self-serving plug, I'm going to go ahead anyway and show you how to write a plugin for Yougle. I get a lot of requests for particular video, audio and (to a lesser extent) picture sources. What many people don't know is that...
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The Digital Lifestyle.com video show is sponsored by Embedded Automation 10ft Media make Media Center systems for consumers and businesses, they even install systems in dentists. A few weeks ago they were on The Media Center Show and we chatted about their systems. In this video I take a look at one...