The Media Center Show #8 - Michael Sprague
The Media Center Show #8 - 16th May 2005 (40min)
MP3 - 14.3MB
This week I talked to Michael Sprague President and COO of Wavepress makers of TVTonic an Online Spotlight application for Windows Media Center. We talked about TVTonic and the broadcast of TV over broadband
I also read out some email from John Hoole about RegMechanic, Christopher Addicott and Shaun Adams.
I played a messge in to the Skype line from Herc and have another chance to win MyRemoteMouse
The Skype line for the show is MediaCenterShow and the email address is isdixon@gmail.com
Show Notes:
0:00 Welcome
0:35 A warning from John Hoole about Reg Mechanic
1:09 Email from Christopher Addicott about www.letsautomate.com
1:34 Gmail for Media Center - Outlook for Media Center
2:04 Calls in to the Skype Line for Herc
2:30 Win MyRemoteMouse
3:07 Break
4:15 Interview with Michael Sprague
4:30 TVTonic background
5:50 TVTonic content
8:00 It’s like a TV Channel
9:39 Global Access
10:52 Yes Network
12:32 Downloaded content v Steamed content
12:40 New Advertising Models
16:20 TVTonic uptake
16:45 New Features - RSS Video Content
18:30 Online Spotlight
19:10 Expanding the guide
21:20 Development work on Media Center
23:20 Extenders
23:30 Michael’s Home PC - Niveus Denali
25:00 Michael’s TV Setups of the past
28:35 Trusted Identity
30:50 More than a PVR
32:00 Getting Started with TVTonic
34:20 Goodbye
34:54 Half as Far by Ian Dixon
May 18th, 2005 at 2:03 am
A tidbit for Ian’s listeners…
TVTonic with RSS support will be coming soon, but in the meantime there is an unpublished feature in the existing TVTonic interface that enables you to add channels of custom wmv or mp3 files to the TVTonic channel menu.
In Program Files\Wavexpress\TVTonic\My Collection\, create a folder called “Feeds”. Any folder found in the Feeds directory will become a channel named after the folder. The files in that folder become the individual shows in the channel.
So simply by pointing your rss client to deposit enclosures in subfolders of “TVTonic\My Collection\Feeds”, you can make use of the simple TVTonic channel interface in MCE to navigate and view video blogs or listen to podcasts.
May 28th, 2005 at 1:30 am
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June 1st, 2005 at 1:08 am
Michael
The My Collection Feeds idea is an excellent feature and I have to say works exceptionally well.
Any chance this could be better dcoumented when you install TVTonic as I guess most people are unaware of it.
Cheers
Garry
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October 15th, 2005 at 2:51 am
[...] Waveexpress add RSS Video support to TVTonic Waveexpress have updated TVTonic to include RSS support. So you can subscribe to video blogs like Channel 9 and watch then in Media Center For more information on what TVTonic is check out my interview I did with Michael Sprague (president of Waveexpress) on the Windows Media Center Show back in May So Thomas Hawk can watch Channel 9 videos on his Media Center box :) details for your press release: The latest enhancement to the Wavexpress TVTonic service is for the inclusion of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) content. RSS is a popular Internet XML format designed for sharing headlines and syndicating other web content, such as news, community sites and personal weblogs. RSS is the syndication format behind podcasting and is used by an ever growing number of video bloggers. Through RSS, users can subscribe to video feeds from thousands of publishers, large and small “We’ve heard from our customers that they want quick and easy access to a wide range of on-demand digital entertainment content through their Media Center PCs” said Dave Mendlen, director of Windows Consumer Marketing at Microsoft Corp. “Wavexpress’ RSS capability offers customers the flexibility they want to customize their entertainment and enjoy a broad range of digital entertainment options.” More details on there site HERE and you can download TVTonic from here (and it’s in Online Spotlight) [...]