This week I am talking to Automated Home’s Mark McCall. We recorded the interview live and took questions from the chat room, we covered a wide range of topics from pre-installed crapware to home servers, Xbox Media Center to Apple TV. Oh and listen out for an unexpected guest half way through the interview. I also have your email and a round up of news items from the blog
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This show is sponsored by mControl – Home Automation for Vista Media Center
Show Times:
00:50 Coming up this week
01:39 Email: Dell Studio Hybrid
03:08 Email: HDMI sound problems
05:50 TVTonic 3.3 Released
06:43 Thomas Hawk visits the Media Center team
07:23 The Home Server Show Podcast and blog
08:36 Welcome to Mark McCall
10:00 To buy or to build a Media Center PC
13:00 Crapware
17:01 Home Servers
20:30 Windows Home Server and Windows Media Center
23:17 Mark’s server
28:15 Media Center Extenders
31:50 Xbox Media Center
39:50 Apple TV
43:47 Graphics cards with HDMI
45:23 TV Cards
47:41 486 Power!
49:09 Who it that in the chat room????
50:15 Is Home Automation mainstream
54:23 Alertme.com
1:01:07 Mark’s podcast
1:03:44 Automated Home’s top 10 podcasts
1:05:56 Mark’s Twitter
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Hi Ian/Mark
One of the best and most practical podcasts I have listened to in a long time. Full of very useful information and especially both of your experiences with different products. The information on extenders was very helpfull, thanks. Please provide more of the same.
Thanks a million.
Paul