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Samsung Attempt to Discover World’s Smallest Niche With the MediaLive Extender

Samsung announce the MediaLive Extender for Windows Media Center, but for a very, very targeted audience.

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Win a $10,000 Digital Home Makeover From Microsoft

As part of the launch of the new Windows Media Center v2 Extenders, Microsoft are holding a competition in which one lucky winner can have their digital lives transformed from their current frustrated, disconnected experience to a digital enthusiast’s dream with $10,000 worth of new kit, including  a new PC with Windows Media Center, Extenders [...]

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Add-in Update: Recorded TV Manager 3.4.5 & MCE Collections Beta

Rick Drasch has updated his add-in, Recorded TV Manager, to version 3.4.5, as well as releasing a new add-in suite for Vista Media Center, called MCE Collections. Recorded TV Manager comes with the following changes: Version 3.4.5 Posted March 24, 2008 Startup Requirements- Improved the startup code regarding problems running the programincluding extended error reporting in the local eventlog. PERFORM_STARTUP_CHECK - Each [...]

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The Media Center Show, With Ian Dixon and… Me.

It’s a shame that I’m on The Media Center show this week having to discuss the Windows Home Server data corruption bug, rather than other more inspiring aspects of life with Windows Home Server, but there you go. Big thanks to Ian for getting in touch to help us communicate what the bug is all about, and [...]

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Welcome to Microsoft’s Steven Lindsay!

Please give a big welcome to Steven Lindsay from Microsoft, who will be a resident expert here at We Got Served on many aspects of Windows Home Server and Windows Media Center technologies. I’ll let Steve introduce himself, but as well as being a self-confessed digital enthusiast, he’s part of Microsoft’s new Windows Champions initiative which [...]

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A Glimpse of the Future From Alienware?

Alienware today released details of their new High Definition Media Server, which looks really fantastic for those people seeking high capacity storage, media recording and streaming capabilities and a wealth of connectivity options in one good looking box…. apart from the fact that it’s actually not a server at all.   This “server” actually runs Windows Vista [...]

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Add-In Review: Recorded TV Manager 3.4.3 for Windows Home Server

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 [...]

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Add-In: Recorded TV Manager

Rick Drasch has released the final version of his Recorded TV Manager add-in to the web. The add-in, previously in beta, is designed to help you manage your recorded TV programs and series between your Media Center PCs and Windows Home Server. Features include: Collections - Collect series episodes automatically to the Home Server (or other location) [...]

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CES 2008: HP to Announce HP MediaSmart Receiver with Extender for Windows Media Center Support

  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 [...]

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