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The Media Center Show #85 - Gregg Cannon

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

The Media Center Show #85(MP3 - 18.9mb- 55mins 01secs)
by Ian Dixon
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This week on the show Gregg Cannon of Cannon PC joins me to talk about Cannon PC’s range of Media Center PC’s and building Media Center Servers
I have email in to the show and items from around the web.
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The Media Center Show #84 - Joe Costello

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

The Media Center Show #84(MP3 - 18.3mb- 53mins 21secs)
by Ian Dixon
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This week on the show, a slight deviation from Media Center as I talk to Orb co-founder Joe Costello about Orb 2.0, mycasting, the explosion of digital media and taking your Media Center content with you on the go.
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The Media Center Show Extra #4 - Z

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

This week on the show I look at the “Z” sample application in the Windows Media Center SDK (v5.0)
Z is a complete end-to-end sample application that really shows off the power of Media Center Markup lanungage. You get the source code to the whole application in the SDK. I hope it not only inspires developers [...]

The Media Center Show #83 - Kevin Shields (Microsoft)

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

The Media Center Show #83(MP3 - 21.9mb- 1hour 03mins 53secs)
by Ian Dixon
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I have a great interview this week. Kevin Shields, General Manager of the TV team at Microsoft talks about TV support in Media Center. From the original analog only support to digital standards and Cablecard. We talk about TV in Vista and TV [...]

The Media Center Show #82 - BuildMediaCenter.com

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

The Media Center Show #82(MP3 - 20.4mb- 59mins 30secs)
by Ian Dixon
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This week on the show I talk to Andy Zhulenev from BuildMediaCenter.Com, we talk about this experiences building a Media Center PC and how he got the idea of building a Media Center resource web site. We also talk about his other project, building a HTPC [...]

The Media Center Show Extra #3 - now in HD!

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Well almost HD (640 x 480) 
This edition of the Extra show focuses on TV in Vista Media Center.
Media Center’s TV function have been updated in Vista, so I take a look at it’s new UI including the new mini-guide.  If your new to Media Center you will be impressed by how easy it is to [...]

The Media Center Show #81 - Uguide

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

The Media Center Show #81(MP3 - 15.8mb- 46mins 12secs)
by Ian Dixon
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This week on the show I will be chatting with Jim Cantalini CEO of Uguidetv, Uguide is a mobile utility that enables you to view TV program guides, receive personalized recommendations and remotely control the scheduling of recordings on Media Center.
I also have email [...]

The Media Center Show #80 - Media Center Development (Part 2)

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

The Media Center Show #80(MP3 - 15.4mb- 44mins 55secs)
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This week I have part two of a the interview with Aaron Stebner from the eHome team at Microsoft. We are talking about Media Center Markup Language the new way of developing applications for Media Center. In part two we talk about code, the tools for [...]

The Media Center Show Extra #2

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

This week on the Media Center Show Extra I am showing off mceAuction the ebay application for Media Center as well as Media Center Markup Language samples and the Q application that Aaron Stebner talks about on the Media Center Show this week.
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mceAuction
The Vista Media [...]

The Media Center Show #79 - Media Center Development (Part 1)

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

The Media Center Show #79(MP3 - 19.9mb- 57mins 69secs)
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This week I have part one of a great interview with Aaron Stebner from the eHome team at Microsoft. We are going to be talking about Media Center Markup Language the new way of developing applications for Media Center. It was such an in depth interview [...]