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Microsoft Announce New Features for Xbox 360 at the E3 Media and Business Summit

The E3 Media and Business Summit included a number of announcements from Microsoft including changes to the the Xbox 360 dashboard, which will now have a more Media Center like interface, and new partnerships to improve access to online media content.

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How To… Automatically Download Audio and Video Podcasts Via RSS With Windows Home Server

Last week, a post over at the WGS forums discussed options for automatically download Audio and Video Podcasts with Windows Home Server via RSS Feeds, and move them to the correct shared folder on the home server. I invited one of regular forum contributors, DSSystems to pull together a walkthrough on achieving this, and I’m delighted to say, he’s [...]

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New Xbox Media Hub On the Way?

Ian Dixon points to a Smarthouse article concerning rumours of a new Xbox-based media hub rumoured to be in development. He asks: Would you prefer a all in one Xbox devices with Tuner cards or a centralized Windows Home Server with Media Center Server built in and then user Extender devices to consume the content? I think [...]

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Whiist Wins the Windows Home Server Code2Fame Challenge!

  Big congratulations to Andrew Grant, who today is announced as the winner of the Code2Fame challenge, for his Windows Home Server add-in, Whiist. Yesterday, as we reported, a group of judges from the WHS team and seasoned pundits (Ed Bott from ZDNet’s Microsoft Report, Paul Thurrott from Supersite for Windows, and Rob Enderle from the Enderle [...]

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Using a Digital Media Receiver With Windows Home Server

A while back, I mentioned that we were in the process of fully refurbishing our home, which we moved into back in May. We’re about two thirds of the way through the work, which has been a hard slog, but the work is really starting to pay off, with big chunks of the house now [...]

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