Martin Millmore has come out with a great new addin for Windows Media Center designed just for kids. My Media Center is a Windows 7 Media Center addin that is simple to use and has filters so you can restrict content you don’t want your kids to see. I really like the design Martin has [...]
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While Microsoft’s Charlie Owen is no longer in the Media Center team that hasn’t stopped released an updated Windows Media Center SDK (all be it un-officially). Charlie has created what he calls ‘Windows Media Center SDK for Windows 7 Addendum’ which he says it includes: A couple of new and updated loose MCML samples (mostly [...]
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Toshiba have launched the first Windows 7 certified range TVs. The certification means it fully supports Play To over wifi or ethernet, so you could stream music,pictures and recorded TV directly to the TV. Here are three models available in the US, I have searched Toshiba’s UK site and can’t find any equivalent models so [...]
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It’s 7pm as I write this and in the UK several channels have just started broadcasting. On a couple of those channels I have scheduled recordings. Normally what I would now be seeing is a message on my main home theatre pc saying words to the effect that Media Center was unable to start the [...]
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Over at Microsoft’s on10.net they have an introduction to DIY Media Center with CableCARD tuners. They feature Centon’s new PCIe CableCARD tuner and explain how Media Center has been opened up to allow CableCARD without the need for an OEM machine
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It’s all happening in the world of DVBLink today. Fresh on the tail of DVBLogic’s announcements the good folks over at 1Geek1Tool have made a couple of announcements of their own – one of which, whilst it doesn’t actually offer a solution, is very significant for those people waiting for a way of getting their [...]
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The team at DVBLogic have just posted another update to their DVBLink product. The big news here is that multiple clients can share playback of the same channel from the same tuner. As ever more information over at www.dvbLogic.com DVBLogic Press Release: Version 2.1 of DVBLink products is available!What’s new and fixed: DVBLink TVSource- Added [...]
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This post has been a long time in the works. I wanted to put together a single post with all the basic information in one place. It’s a work in progress, but here is where it starts. http://www.nedmug.com/Blogs/tabid/226/PostID/33/Installing-and-configuring-Windows7-Media-Center-Start-to-Finish.aspx
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Its only a couple months off the World Cup and whether you love or hate football its going to be hard to avoid this summer, but a new TV Tuner from Avermedia may just help. Thanks to Avermedia we are giving away 3 Avermedia DVB-T tuners (UK spec) so if your a football fan you [...]
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It looks like another manufacture is jumping in on the slate bandwagon. Samsung are said to be working on a new PC slate device that is targeted for consumers. Samsung are looking to make this a “primary device” and provide desktop docking, as with HP I think they are trying to highlight the the short [...]
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