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This week on the Media Center Show

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Coming up this week on the Media Center Show, I have the final part of the CES coverage I recorded.
Joe Harris from Digital Deck tells us about there updated product range and then to round CES off I sat down with Ian McCarthy from Orb and we discussed the trends at CES, Ian kept asking [...]

A Brief History of ATSC in Media Center

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Peter Rosser has a great post about the history of ATSC in Media Center.
He also give a glimps of what is coming in terms of TV support for Diamond, the Vista version of Media Center and Fiji (the release after Diamond).
 
A very intestesting read.
Link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/peterrosser/archive/2006/02/03/AtscInMce.aspx
 
 

Live Podcast?

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

I have been thinking about doing a live podcast for a while and was reminded about the idea while reading Sean Alexander’s blog about  SightMax
 
First off would anybody listen to a one off live show? It would have to be around 8pm UK (12pm PST), we could take live questions from a chat room etc, [...]

Acoustic Magic’s Voice Tracker™ Array Microphone and One Voice’s Media Center Communicator

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

I am playing with One Voice Technologies’ Media Center Communicator, finding it great but it needs a good microphone.
One voice announced today they they are marketing Acoustic Magic’s Voice Tracker Array Microphone.
More details on my blog

Microsoft SideShow — iPod Killer?

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Just read an interesting article on Consumer Electronics Stock blog, it talks about SideShow (what used to be called auxiliary displays) and how they could be a route to unseat Apple’s domination of the music player world.
 
The piece explains that the displays are going to be more that just an extra displays on laptops they could [...]

Cablecard Certification, What gets certified?

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Ok, I am confused now.
I know that the operating system must be certified, so Vista is ok.
Now for the confusing part. Some people told me that the PC got certified, e.g Sony send there Vista Media Center PC off for certification and once thats done it will work. Other people told me that the individual [...]

Coming up this week….CES Part 2

Monday, January 30th, 2006

This week on the Media Center Show I have a collection of interviews I recorded at CES.
I interviewed Intel to get the details on the VIIV platform, I got an update Simplifi Audio about there new audio amps and I interviewed a  bunch of people at the Media Center Show Party including Thomas Hawk, Ed Bott, [...]

XBOX 360 Extender - it just works

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Last night I finally got my XBOX 360. While most people would be dieing to get it connected up and shoot the enemy solders or race around the streets in a Ferrari I wanted to get mine connected as a Media Center Extender.
I got the unit plugged in to my TV (my new Sony TV [...]

Coming up this week… Joe Belfiore

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Coming up this week on the Media Center Show is Joe Belfiore VP of the eHome division at Microsoft.
I sat down with Joe at CES and we talked about the history of Media Center, where it is now and where its going with Vista.
Joe is so enthusiastic about Media Center and is such a nice [...]

Coming up this week….CES Part 1

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Coming up this week on the Media Center Show is part one of my CES coverage.

This week its Lynn McCrosky (Oxmoor CEO) inventor of the ZON Audio technology talking about Zon audio and the NextGen Home at CES and Tim Cutting CEO & Founder of Niveus Media, Inc talking about there range of Media Center [...]