Matt Pietrek has an interesting tip on his MSDN blog about getting ripped DVDs to stream from Windows Home Server to Media Center Extenders (in his case an Xbox 360), Matt kept getting "video decoder error". Where a lot of us would get frustrated with the error and start looking for a window...
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on 11-02-2008
Filed under: Windows Media Center, Windows Home Server, Extenders for Windows Media Center
According to Ben at EngadgetHD the new Samsung Media Center Extender has a release date of October 15th on Amazon . Like I have said before it’s a nice looking extender but it’s limited to selected Samsung HD TVs
CE Pro in their pre-CEDIA report have picked up on a rumour that Samsung will be showing off a generic version of an Extender that works with non Samsung TVs. As you may recall at CES I saw Samsung’s Media Center Extender and it only worked with selected Samsung HDTV’s (The reason is the TV controlled...
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on 09-02-2008
Filed under: Windows Media Center, Extenders for Windows Media Center, Niveus, Samsung
Ben Drawbaugh missed reviewing the HP MediaSmart on his last Extender roundup but he has put that right now with a review of HP’s Extender: In our recent roundup of Vista Media Center Extenders we were very disappointed that HP MediaSmart connect wasn't available in time to go head to head with the rest...
The one Extender I have not tested at home yet is the D-Link DSM-750 and according to Chris Lanier D-Link have updated the firmware of the extender. The Firmware is version 1.01 and dated August 11th. Revision Info: Support for 1080p TVs and video files Look of the Home page altered to improve navigation...
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on 08-22-2008
Filed under: Windows Media Center, Extenders for Windows Media Center, D-Link