The Media Center Show #45 - Dave Alles
The Media Center Show #45 (MP3 - 21.8MB - 1 Hour 3mins 39secs)
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The Media Center Show with Orb Networks
On this weeks show I have Dave Alles, Product Unit Manager on the eHome team at Microsoft talking about Extenders, including how the idea for the original XBOX extender came about in a Redmond Brewery
I also have an update from Charlie Owen about the MIX06 conference where Media Center is featuring.
I have the latest news, email in to the show and a chance to win mcePhone thanks to Christoph Buenger Software
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Show Times:
00:47 Coming up this week
01:00 CES all done, thanks HTPC news!
01:42 Quiet PC
02:21 DVR-MS audio to mp3
03:04 Extender UI in Vista
03:49 mcePhone winners
04:25 2nd Tuner Card problems
05:26 Photoshop with Media Center
06:00 Media Center Show News
06:08 CE Pro talk to Intel about Viiv
06:23 XBOX killing Media Center, no
07:50 Charlie Owen talks about MIX06
11:00 For Designers
12:19 MIX06 Demo Project
13:40 Media Center and Web 2.0
14:00 New ways to develop for Media Center
16:30 Media Center Markup Language
20:21 Thanks to Charlie
21:00 Spec for the MIX06 project
21:04 A message from TPN
21:48 Welcome to Dave Alles
22:02 Dave’s role
23:19 The background of Extenders
29:50 Owning 16 XBOX 360’s
31:18 Programming for the XBOX 360
33:00 How the XBOX Extender came about
39:34 XBOX 360 Media Center use
40:44 Switching out a PC for a XBOX 360
42:20 “Dogfooding” Media Center
43:12 Dave is using Cablecard
49:30 Making Windows more consistent
51:45 “Piyka” devices - new Extender devices
53:50 LG DVR
55:00 Integrated EPG
58:45 Thanks to Dave
59:20 Win mcePhone
Music by Ian Dixon