Founder of The Digital Lifestyle.com and host of The Digital Lifestyle Show.
Started podcasting and writing about Media Center in 2005 and a
Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP.
Website: http://thedigitallifestyle.com
Ian Dixon has written 3595 articles so far, you can find them below.
If you have downloaded Windows 8 Consumer Preview and have a AMD video card you may want to checkout AMD’s new Windows 8 drivers. They have released a set of preview drivers for the 64bit and 32 bit version of Windows 8 support on the following cards: AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series AMD Radeon HD [...]
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This week we talked about Currys/PC World launching a movie streaming service and today the site was officially launched. Looking around at the site there is a fairly basic selection with only content from Warner Bro and Disney and the prices seem pretty high. For example Dolphin Tale can be bought for in HD for [...]
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On the podcast this week we had an email about Windows Media Center remotes for iOS and the one I use on my iPad got an update today. vmcMote HD for the iPad enables browsing the music library (with art work), create playlists and control playback. The update published today improves library browsing speed which [...]
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Welcome to this weeks show, Garry and Andrew join me to talk over the weeks news including Windows 8 Consumer Preview launch, Raspberry Pi going on sale, iPad 3 press event, news from Mobile World Congress , PC World launching a movie streaming service, Skype for Windows Phone and Nokia Windows Phones and lots of [...]
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With yesterdays Windows 8 Consumer Preview Microsoft have released a set of recommendations for getting the best out of the new version. I found that if your machine runs Windows 7 ok it will run Windows 8 just fine, but screen resolution could be a issue. To get metro apps running you need a minimum [...]
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Despite rumours that Windows Media Center would be omitted from the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 it’s alive and kicking in the Windows 8 download so I thought I would take a look and see if anything has changed. I know some people where expecting lots of changes to the Windows 8 version but [...]
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Like many of you I got up early this morning (6am) to try and order a Raspberry Pi the £24 credit card sized PC , unfortunately such was the demand that the two resellers that were handling the sales in the UK Premier Farnell and RS Components both buckled under pressure and their sites crashed. [...]
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Microsoft have released the Consumer Preview of Windows 8. It comes in 32bit and 64bit versions from http://preview.windows.com and has a lot of changes from the developer builds including the new Windows Store. Microsoft Announces Availability of Windows 8 Consumer Preview BARCELONA, Spain — Feb. 29, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of [...]
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Freeview’s EPG system is to get some interesting new features as part of a standards announcements today. The Digital TV Group which represents technology companies and broadcasters have added scolling back in time to the EPG standard which is designed to work with TV catchup services, Also addd to the standard is remote record protocol [...]
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Ahead of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview downloads Microsoft have released the PlayReady components for the OS. The PlayReady components are needed for some DRMed content to work. PlayReadyPC_Win8CustomerPreview_x64.msi 2.1 MB DOWNLOAD PlayReadyPC_Win8CustomerPreview_x86.msi 1.8 MB DOWNLOAD Microsoft PlayReady technology is optimized for the mobile industry to support the growth of online content services, and includes [...]
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