On my personal blog I have just written a post on how podcasting has changed my life
I wanted to thank all the listeners to the show
Read it here

In the new year I am looking to buy a new TV. I want a 37 to 40 inch screen HDMI input (to hook it up to an XBox 360) it must have freeview built in (the standard for UK over air digital TV)
So far this Sony looks good and best of all my wife [...]

The Media Center Show #39 (MP3 - 27.4MB - 1 hour 19mins 50secs)
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A extra special show this week, its the Media Center Award Show. Thomas Hawk joins me to review the winners and we have some special guests joining us. Sorry it’s such a long show but it is a special!
I want to say [...]

Coming up this week on the Media Center Show is the Media Center Show Awards 2005
 
Joining me to host the show is Thomas Hawk and we are going to look at the nominations and the winners, plus we have some special guests joining us on Skype
 
We have the prize winners and a chat about [...]

I just wanted to wish all listeners best wishes for Christmas and that Santa brings you lots of gadgets.
Thanks to all of you for listening and hopefully the show will get bigger and better in 2006.
Look out for the Media Center Show Awards 29th December with special co-host Thomas Hawk.
Happy Christmas!

The Media Center Show #38 (MP3 - 20.8MB - 1 hour 0mins 48secs)
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On this weeks show Duncan Rae talks about how he fitted Windows Media Center in a car and I have info on the Media Center Show Party at CES and your invited.
I have another chance to win MCE-Suduko and some winners from [...]

Coming up this week on the Windows Media Center Show I have Duncan Rae talking about how he fitted Media Center in to his car, and yes it’s achievable and not to expensive!
 
So listen to this weeks show to find out more, out Thursday!
 
Oh and if you going to CES come to the Media Center [...]

If your going to CES your invited to the Media Center Show Party. It is being hosted by my friends at Orb and all listeners and geeks are invited, refreshments will be provided
it’s Friday 6th @ 5pm
 
More details soon, if your interested please drop me an email (isdixon at gmail.com)

An interesting suggestion was raised in the Media Center Show forums yesterday
The user was asking about whether it’s possible for multiple Media Center PC’s to work together to share resources for extender clients.
 
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For example: Say you have two dual tuner servers and 3 extenders. Can an extender control either server or [...]

I have started analysing the votes in the Media Center Show Awards (a nice VB application does the work for me)
and I found this fact interesting.
One of the questions I asked was “Do you have a TV card in your Media Center PC?”
The results where:

Yes a single card 53.68%
Yes multiple cards 42.63%
No 3.68%

So thats [...]