About Ian Dixon

avatar 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.


Interviewing jkOnTheRun

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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Cutting Edge PC’s HD-DVD / Bluray Media Center

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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Life|ware launch entry Level Life|Media Server

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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Video of The NextGen Home at CES

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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Linksys at CES, I think they get it

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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CES Day 3

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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Clearing up the confusion on Samsung’s new Extender

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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Microsoft Robotics Studio

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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CES Day 2 Round Up

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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Home Server News at CES

  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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