Just got off the phone with Ian Dixon who interviewed me regarding the data corruption bug for next week’s Media Center Show. Whilst a few websites appear to have gone into meltdown regarding this week’s KB update, we both thought it was important to get some clarity back into the situation, as well destroy a couple of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 7, 2008
Chris Lanier points today to Ian Dixon’s Media Center Show this week, which has an interview with S1Digital’s Paul Heitlinger about their plans for 2008. I bumped into Paul at the Media Center Show dinner in Las Vegas at CES hosted, and he mentioned that S1 were planning to launch Windows Home Server hardware in 2008. The [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 1, 2008
In my digital world Windows Home Server (WHS) was always going to be a logical partner for use with XP Media Center (MCE) and a media extender. At the moment WHS does not quite manage to integrate itself seamlessly between recording TV on an MCE and watching it using a media extender, this is in [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 31, 2008
Thanks for the interview, Ian - very funny show this week. 36:29 - 40:20 - Media Center Dinner…. at this point, I really do have to say it wasn’t a complete beerfest. But whenever I bumped into Ian (and his microphone) we both appeared to have beers in our hand. Great fun. Ian, Andrew and I [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 25, 2008
Ian Dixon over at The Digital Lifestyle dropped me a quick IM this afternoon. He’s running a post today asking how his readers have attempted to integrate their Media Center set ups with Windows Home Server. It’s clear that these are two products which should, in a perfect world, work hand in hand to receive, store and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 17, 2008
Ian Dixon has been doing a valliant job of editing and sharing a huge variety of interviews he conducted at CES last week. Even though 140,000 people attend CES, it’s funny how you bump into the same people regularly, and every time I saw Ian, he had his tablet PC and microphone at the ready. Great [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 3, 2008
So, wrapping up the HP MediaSmart announcement for CES, comes a range of HP MediaSmart TVs. Remember that MediaSmart Receiver I told you about earlier? It’s built-in, so it’ll work with your home server and bundles in Extender for Windows Media Center (still a mouthful) for good meansure. You also get 1080p resolution, 3 HDMI ports [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 3, 2008
Next up in HP’s CES MediaSmart announcements is the HP MediaSmart Receiver - a Digital Media Receiver (DMR) which is fully compatible with the HP MediaSmart Server and includes Extender for Windows Media Center Support (or the v2 Extender you may have read about elsewhere). The DMR enables you to playback music, videos and photos from [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 24, 2007
Recorded TV Manager is a new add-in from Fredrick Drash which monitors Recorded TV folders on your Media Center home computers and automatically moves or copies the content over to your home server. The add-in is based on Recorded TV Manager 2 and is currently in beta - Fredrick submitted the add-in for the Code2Fame developer competition, [...]
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Friday, February 22, 2008
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