The Media Centre Show #13
Welcome to the Media Center Show #13 (MP3 - 13.5MB - 39min 17sec)
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On this weeks show we have John Canning Tech Evangelist from the Windows eHome team at Microsoft and we talk about Media Center development and the Media Center platform
I also talk about the new addin for Media Center that I have developed for listening to the Podcast Network shows on Windows Media Center (based on mNewsCenter).
It can be downloaded from here
We have 2 winners of mNewsCenter
To contact the show send email to isdixon@gmail.com , call the show Skype line MediaCenterShow and go to the forums
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Show Notes:
00:25 Welcome to the Show
00:38 Coming up this week
01:00 How to get in touch
01:38 The Podcast Network on Media Center Add in
02:20 Using XML and the Media Center SDK to register applications
03:00 mControl demo available
03:25 Break
04:34 Welcome to John - What is a Tech Evangelist?
05:23 Useful sites, The Green Button, Thomas Hawk, my blog
05:44 Home Automation
06:13 John Presentations
06:30 PDC 2005
07:00 What do you talk about at a conference
08:37 Content from any source
09:24 Media Center as a platform
10:20 Gaming
12:12 mNewsCenter and new applications for Media Center
12:30 Netflix for Media Center
14:30 Write more addins!
15:00 Longhorn Media Center
15:34 eBay on Media Center
16:27 Radio on Media Center
17:11 MTV on Media Center
19:00 Interactive TV on Media Center
19:40 Tech-ed
21:50 Tech-ed 2006
23:02 Most asked features
24:10 HDTV and Cable Cards
27:20 Freeview in UK
29:15 MSN Remote Record using Click to Record API
30:13 Build your own Remote Record using the Click to Record API
31:27 How to get started developing with Media Center
32:29 Recommended sites, Charlie Owen’s blog
33:27 Future guests on the show
34:17 Winners of mNewsCenter
34:50 Get in touch with the show
35:17 Play out with another track from Stephen Foster
June 17th, 2005 at 12:52 am
not done listening, but does john canning have a blog?
June 17th, 2005 at 12:57 am
I don’t think he does. I will double check, maybe he will now :)
June 17th, 2005 at 7:16 am
The Podcast Network Media Center Edition
June 23rd, 2005 at 2:04 pm
The Podcast Network’s Podcatcher for MCE
June 28th, 2005 at 11:14 am
Not yet because I have been crazy busy speaking around the world and working with partners :) I know I need to start writing more…Charlie Owen does have a blog and a great one, full of useful tidbits :)
August 3rd, 2005 at 12:31 pm
I like John Canning enthusiasm, its part of his job title of course. Although I have to critisize on the issue of out-of-house encouragement for services which really should be rolled out by MS themselves.
Specifically MSN Remote Record for the UK, sure the US has one but MCE is available in the UK and so should the RR service, and what are they going to do for the other soon to be released MCE in new countries, they’ll question the issue also.
I know its a hectic time for the department, I have a list of other things I’d like along with the lists of others, but the services they do get round to rolling out should be for those that have this product and not just the US. MSN is never going to be much more than a pit-stop for logging into Hotmail unless real-useful services like this are included.
Idealy I’d like it intergrated into Messenger, with an Orb like playback feature, if Orb can do it then MS (a $100m-a-day comapny) can do it, Messenger needs this injection of usefulness also.
Good to see the issues are taken onboard by him, I wonder how much more with the new supported countries he will have to worry about. I think I said it before but I’ll say it again I like this site because its regional, it focuses a lot on UK isseus, while exploring others, but dropping in those such as the Red button support and the BBC which are quintessential to us, with MS actually in an interview is much appreciated.
I hope to see some kind of official list of features that the MCE team are working on, ones users would like and the features that are on the back-burner, with forums or blogs so users can debate on them. That would be good for the site, keep the strong tyes with MS which I think has driven so far the take-up of this niche product, simply because people feel included on a personal basis.
Samuel, UK