Microsoft confirm only the Xbox 360 will work as a Media Center Extender with Windows 8

Just before Christmas Microsoft quietly posted a KB article about Windows Media Center Extender support for Windows 8. I forgot to post about it at the time but chatting with some fellow MVPs this week at CES I thought it would be worth doing a post on. In the KB Continue Reading

Podcast: TDL Mobile Show 74

Welcome one and all to this weeks TDL Mobile show! This week we have a very special show for you as we are lucky enough to have Ed Bott as a guest! We talk Microsoft, past, present and future and how we think their mobile plans are forming.  We also Continue Reading

Tip on getting Media Center Extender sessions to play DVDs from Windows Home Server

Matt Pietrek has an interesting tip on his MSDN blog about getting ripped DVDs to stream from Windows Home Server to Media Center Extenders (in his case an Xbox 360), Matt kept getting "video decoder error". Where a lot of us would get frustrated with the error and start looking Continue Reading