The Media Center Show #4 - Mick Stanic
The Media Center Show #4 - 9th April 2005 (56min 15sec)
MP3 - 19.4MB
This week I talked to Mick Stanic (co-founder of The Podcast Network) about Media Center.
We talked about EPG (or lack of) in Australia , Online Spotlight, Geek TV and Robert Scoble in 5.1 surround sound!
I could have talked all day with Mick!
Please send comments and feedback to isdixon at gmail.com or skype the show line
Update: Mick got his EPG working!
Links from the show:
Skype Line for the show
The Green Button
Doppler
Channel 9 from MSDN
Portalbe Media Centers
Extenders
Show Times:
0:00 Start
00:30 Welcome to the show
0:49 Thanks again to Charlie Owen Richard Cardran and Mike Petrusis of Zetools
0:59 Email Isdixon@gmail.com
Skype Line
01:27 No update on RSS reader
01:47 Break
02:19 Mick Stanic (www.thepodcastnetwork.com and SplaTT’s blog)
02:56 “Welcome to the TPN”
03:21 End users don’t know about Media Center
04:41 EPG Support or lack of?
5:21 Why isn’t there one in Australia
06:55 FoxTell IQ
08:10 Hacking your EPG www.thegreenbutton.com
09:30 What Mick is using
10:10 My Moives
12:12 Online Spotlight – top tip for getting more content
14:30 The Podcast Network on Online Spotlight?
17:13 Podcasts on Media Center (www.dopplerradio.com)
18:32 Channel 9 Videos on Media Center
19:30 Video content on Media Center
21:30 Geek TV and Geek Radio
21:50My RSS Reader for MCE
23:10 What would Mick like to see added to Media Center
23:41 Online Spotlight expansion
25:10 Creating pages for MCE
28:00 Portable Media Centers
29:15 Extenders
33:33 Two Tuner Cards
34:50 LG DVD Player (see the CES show video )
37:39 Low Cost MCE Tablet PC
38:40 Owning “the last 10 feet”
39:50 Transferring Mick’s “Interesting video collection” (no it’s not porn)
42:25 5.1 Surround sound podcast! (Robert Scoble in my left ear)
43:14 Geek Pink Floyd Concert
44:09 archive.org
45:00 >Red v Blue
47:00 My Remote Mouse
47:45 Plug in’s
48:48 Microsoft support for developers (Charlie’s blog )
51:25 Thanks and Goodbye
51:50 Music “We will always be” by Ian Dixon (yes it does sound a bit Floydie!)
April 11th, 2005 at 10:50 am
The Media Center Show #4
April 11th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
No offense Ian, but this show just says to me that Mick should be a regular on your show. I have always said all shows (except maybe the music ones that just intro the tracks (what happened to Dubba?)) should have a co-host.
Even when you interviewing someone, two points of view just works (e.g. look at G’day World). Having said this, even though there is no way I could afford a Media Center in the near future, I did enjoy the show and look forward to the ones to come.
Question: For the inexperienced, whats the benifits in the sports area? Is one of the things you could see the idea of having the picture wrapped in an application that provides stats for the game? Much like Digital tv?
All the best.
Molly
April 11th, 2005 at 6:01 pm
I would love Mick to be a co-host, but knowing how busy he is it may be hard to get his time.
The cost of a media center PC can vary. I noticed a $999 (US dolller) PC comming out (See this post)
Also there are ways of doing by building your own PC (via a OEM copy of MCE)
Maybe its somthing we could look at on the show
For Sports the potential for MCE has not been used really. Via Online Spotlight the stats etc as you said could be used. In Show 3 you can hear myself Charlie and zetools talked abou the future of Online Spotlight and how it could be used for Sports and other interactive TV
Keep listening to future shows for more on that.
Thanks for you feedback, I will read some out of the show if its ok with you
Ian
April 11th, 2005 at 6:43 pm
Hi ian,
Great podcast. Im fan of media center and whole home theatre personal computer concept. While i know media center is very good but there are other software you can make a equally good computer similar to a mce out off.
But just like mick i am overly annoyed at the non epg for mce and those other software i was talking about. I even emailed a local tvguide site who advertise xml information services only to be told “Due to licensing restrictions, we can only provide listings to commercial
companies who produce publish via print, websites or mobile networks.” And it can be scraped or copied. That made me laugh as thats what ppl are doing to get something they could make money out of.
Anyway bye for now from a fan in melbourne australia
keep up the good work
chris nolan
April 22nd, 2005 at 12:13 am
[...] otes: 02:26 Welcome 00:42 Tip from Gary Whitiker via the Skype line 02:32 Feedback from Philip Malone, 3:10 Chris Nolan Mick Stani [...]
April 28th, 2005 at 12:29 am
The content is good, but had to stop listening because the quality was so poor. Mick’s voice was constantly being interrupted, pausing, having interferance, it was so bad I had to stop listening. Please consider using a better quality source or at least editing it before posting.
MCE Fan
April 28th, 2005 at 11:22 pm
Thank for the comment MCE Fan.
We had a bit of a bad day with Skype during that recording so did have to edit some bits out. Most of the other shows don’t have that problem so please give them a listen
Cheers
Ian