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.
This afternoon I interviews Kevin Tofel and James Kendrick from JKonTheRun, we chatted mobile tech news from CES and how Kevin and James were covering CES. James had a HTC Advantage which he was posting pictures live on to his blog, very cool stuff. Here is a picture of he took of me interviewing them [...]
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This afternoon I was introduced to Cutting Edge PC’s, they where showing off their HD-DVD / Bluray Media Center PC, as you can tell from the picture it’s a nice looking devices but what impressed me most is how seamlessly the HD content integrated with Media Center. When I tested Sony’s Bluray Media Center System [...]
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Time for my first post of a CES press release, more details on the [TMCS] as I interviewed Mike Seamans from Life|ware LIFE|WARE LAUNCHES THEIR FIRST ENTRY LEVEL LIFE|MEDIA SERVERS, INCLUDING the LMS-150 WITH DUAL CABLECARD TUNERS With their first direct to consumer offering, Life|ware plants the seed for a Life|ware home. Las Vegas, [...]
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This is a sneek video I did while on the tour of the NextGen Home at CES yesterday. The tour takes you around a home all connected together with Home Automation from Life|ware, Media Center and Lutron lighting control. The home is staffed by actors each showing Media Center and Home Automation if differing situations. [...]
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I have just come from a meeting with Paul McIntosh of Linksys and he showed me their range of Network devices. The first thing I noticed is that they seem to get digital lifestyle concept. Their new router is sleek and the built in Management Software is very simple and visual for an end user [...]
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OL I am getting tried now, 3 days of walking the halls and carrying my bag is getting to me, but it’s worth it to see some of the cool stuff. Today I had a tour of Lifewares Next Gen Home. This is a simulated home setup to show off Home Automation, Lifeware and Windows [...]
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There seems to be some confusion over Samsung’s new Media Center Extender and what TV’s it will work with, on the Microsoft and Samsung’s stand they were not 100% clear. This morning I interviewed Hakan Olsson from the eHome team at Microsoft and he cleared up the issues for me. The new Extenders are designed [...]
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I have just come from a demo of Microsoft Robotics Studio, you may think "What has this to do with The Digital Lifestyle" well for developers I think it could mean a lot. It’s not just fun toys, it is a proper development platform for event driven applications and controlling external devices. So think of [...]
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So another packed day at CES. This morning I talked to Todd Headrick from the Windows Home Server team about a year of Windows Home Server and what the newly announced Windows Home Server Power Pack is all about. I talked to Ricavision about the new Sideshow remotes which look very cool but could be [...]
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As Terry Walsh mentioned in today’s [TMCS], Microsoft have announced Windows Home Server Power Pack 1, this is an update for Home Server that will delivered automatically over Windows Update. Features include: The Windows Home Server Connector will be able to be installed on home computers running Windows Vista x64 editions. Windows Home Server [...]
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