The Media Center Show #15
Welcome to the Media Center Show #15 (MP3 - 23.6MB - 1hour 9min 1sec)
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On this weeks show we have Sean Alexander, Sean talks about blogging, Media Center, presenting on stage with Bill Gates, XBOX 360 and some of the features coming on Longhorn (well the ones he could tell us about!)
Sean said we have only seen 20% of Longhorns features up to now.
Don’t forget to send in the developer question to Michael Creasy for the developer special show.
Send your questions and feedback to isdixon@gmail.com (feel free to send your questions in mp3)
or you can send your questions and comments in to the show Skype Line “MediaCenterShow”
The forums are at Iandixon.co.uk/forums
Show Notes:
09:00 Welcome from Ian
01:20 Send in your developer questions
02:00 I love getting feedback
02:24 Podcasts in iTunes
02:48 Podcasting in Media Center (free download)
03:20 RSS support for IE7 and Longhorn, what does that mean to Media Center
03:40 The Media Center show on Microsoft.com
04:08 Break
05:12 Welcome to the show Sean or is it welcome back?
06:12 Sean’s blogging
08:30 Sean’s bio
09:26 Launching Windows Media Center 2005 with Bill Gates
14:33 Presenting and blogging at CES
17:00 Problems with IR at CES
19:00 Getting Slashdotted
22:00 Remote Record and a UK version being developed
24:00 Outlook for Media Center
25:10 Longhorn at the PDC
26:17 WinHec
27:00 Windows XP 64bit
28:50 You have only seen 20% of Longhorn
29:00 Aero features
31:00 Finding documents in Longhorn
33:40 Longhorn seach supports 3rd party plugins
34:50 The Longhorn dinner
35:20 Longhorn Media Center SKU
37:28 XBOX 360 Media Center features
38:29 Current Extenders
40:53 Extender function built in to XBOX 360
43:50 Longhorn Media Center Server?
44:22 Has anybody built a Media Center PC out of XP Embedded edition
45:00 LG LRM519 DVR
46:50 Will there be other products with a Green Button?
48:00 MCE Flickr group
51:40 The Microsoft Home in the UK54:21 Robert Scoble at the Microsoft Home
56:55 Picture Screen Saver
57:11 The Winter fun pack
58:00 Extras in Media Center
59:40 Party mode
1:00:01 Blogging at Microsoft
1:02:00 Thanks to Sean and the thunder storms
1:03:00 Goodbye
July 4th, 2005 at 2:57 am
Ian,
Quick question - a general one about ‘Extending Media’. I have two Windows Media Center PC’s and was wondering if one of them could act like a Media Center Extender?
If not, can I at least share the media from one device to the other - i.e record EastEnders and then retrieve it upstairs on my second WMC box?
And while on the subject - any other tricks you can suggest, if you’ve got two devices to play with? For example, is there a way I can pause EastEnders mid show - then run upstairs and continue the viewing experience on the second Windows Media Center device?
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Jason
July 4th, 2005 at 6:05 pm
No there is no software Media Center Extender, although I believe one has been developed by Microsoft it’s not out yet or maybe never.
But you can share recording between two PC’s. There are a couple of ways of doing this. The simple way is download this program from the Green Button web site
http://www.thegreenbutton.com/file.aspx?softwareId=15
It enables you to share recorded TV between two pc’s
Also doing forget to install Orb (www.orb.com) so you can watch recorded TV from any internet connected device
Hope this helps
July 5th, 2005 at 10:36 pm
Hey Ian,
That’s very helpful indeed sir. What a dilemma I have, stuck with just two Media Center units :-)
Seriously, I’m putting together a piece for The Gadget Show - not specifically on Media Center, but ‘Smart Home’ technology (basically the stuff I did for Grand Designs Live).
Thanks for the tip off.
Jason
P.S To your readers - I’ve just uploaded a new movie I shot of a cool Robot called Chroino. Thought your techno savvy crowd might be interested. Click me name on this post to see it. Jason.