The Media Center Show #21 (MP3 - 20.8MB - 1 Hour 37sec)
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On this weeks show I have Rob Enderle Principal Analyst of the Enderle Group talking about the TV industry, the Movie industry, the music industry, Vista, extenders and oh we just fit in Media Center :)

We also had a bit of a diversion in to IBM’s software history

I have winners of mNewsCenter and a tip from Jason Hinchliffe.
Once again I talk about some of the Media Center news this week.

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

I am playing with Lyrics in the mp3 file as the show notes. I haven’t synced them up this week, but if anybody knows of a tool for importing a CSV file in to the synced lyrics tags I could do with the help.
In Windows Media Player you have to enter each line one at a time and as I have the show notes done already I don’t want to have to type them back in again.

Show Times:
00:00 Show Ident
00:32 Welcome to the show
00:40 Coming up this week
01:00 mNewsCenter Winners
01:19 Demo version of mNewsCenter
01:32 Email from Jason Hinchliffe
01:47 Bt Voyager digital media player
02:25 Windows Media Connect
02:55 Media Center on the .net show
03:30 Microsoft content on Online Spotlight
04:05 When is Emerald out??
05:50 Will there be a Vista Media Center Edition
07:00 Will the XBOX kill Windows Media Center
08:00 Message from the Podcast Network
09:05 Welcome to Rob and Rob’s background
11:35 Back when IBM trying to sell it’s software division
12:50 Domino v Exchange
15:45 Back to Media Center - How long have you had it?
16:37 Media Center to complex?
17:10 No cable card support yet
18:20 Kind of in Vista
19:50 Piracy of HDTV
20:28 Bypassing DRM with a camcorder - the problem with DRM
21:30 Microsoft DRM is ok for the music industry why not the movie industry
22:35 Sales of movie DVD’s down
23:35 Sales of DVD TV box sets up
24:20 Why not buy TV episode’s online for download
25:30 Pay per download movies
29:00 Make good films and people will go and see them
29:44 Problems with the music industry
32:00 Playing music in podcasts
33:45 Building Media Center PC’s
34:30 Tuner cards
35:00 installing in the correct order
37:00 DVD software
38:00 Why DVD decoders are not included with Media Center
39:00 Special builds of Media Center
39:10 The best builds of Media Center
41:29 Media Center form factors
42:30 The Shuttle M1000
43:50 Media Center Server
44:54 The extender market
46:30 Software extenders
48:20 The Emerald update will not have a lot of new features
50:00 The update does not require Media Center reinstalling
50:49 Rob’s use of Vista
53:00 Aero Glass
54:00 Microsoft keeping Vista’s features hidden for now
56:11 When will Vista Media Center first be seen
57:10 Coming up next week
58:22 Plug for the Grand Prix show
Music by Ian Dixon

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