I had been meaning to take a look at the Windows Media Center sideshow gadgets for some time now and since Windows Mobile can host Sideshow gadgets I thought I would give it a try on my HP Mobile. The first part of the installations is to download and install the release version of the Sideshow gadgets...
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Ian Dixon
on 11-11-2008
Filed under: Windows Media Center, Windows Sideshow, Video, Windows Vista, Windows Mobile
I thought I would give the new Media Center Sideshow gadgets a try on my test machine and it looks like the TV Pack version number issue has hit again. So far I have tried it on a 32bit version of Vista with TV Pack and the installer fails when it checks Media Center’s version number. It’s...
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Ian Dixon
on 10-22-2008
Filed under: Windows Media Center, Windows Sideshow, Windows Media Center TV Pack
It may have come to late for Ricavision but the Windows Media Center Sideshow gadgets have finally been released. These are the gadgets for Sideshow devices that interact with Media Center, so you can browse guide data, cue music, browse pictures and get the now playing information. What we really need...
Chris Lanier noted that the Ricavision remote had been delayed again but it looks worse than that. CEPro are reporting that the company has “essentially gone”. I was impressed the Sideshow Remote Ricavision showed off at CES in January but the remote has been hit by delay after delay (and lets just say...
Remember the beta Windows Media Center gadget for Windows Sideshw that released back in July? ( see the review on the gadget blog ) well Microsoft have put out a Release Candidate of the gadget and It looks like it now supports Extenders. The updated version is on Microsoft Connect and the final version...