Tag: General Media Center News

Charlie Owen has a post in his blog welcoming questions about Windows Media Center and the MCE Team! Here is you chance to ask a MS employee about whatever is on your mind! Since this post there has also been a couple of follow up response to questions posed to him. Retrosight Blog Leave your question as a comment for […]

AMD hopes to breathe new life into the Live campaign and have announced initiatives with several partners to get things going. Part of the program is to allow users to create custom channels and broadcast them through the home. With no examples of the technology in the worls, I remain skeptical but hope to see something materialize sooner then later. […]

This isn't really news you would associate with MissingRemote, but I thought it was interesting enough to post. MS has announced they are coming out with a new format called HD Photo. It is supposed to have twice the efficiency of JPEG with fewer compression related artificats. This, of course, will result in a file size half of JPEG. With […]

Thursday's are as reliable Media Center Show days as the Lakers are to not having a full squad on the court at any given time due to injuries. This week up, Ian's got Steven from Vidabox, makers of OEM Media Center systems. 01:00 Coming up this week 01:57 Email –Niveus Pocket Remote 03:23 Email – Webguide 4.0 03:47 Missing guide […]

As the title mentions, Sony is expected to announce Playsation Home for the PS3 this fall. No details yet, but we can expect to find out more during Phil H.'s keynote speach at GDC. As consoles become a greater part of the digital life, I figured it was worthwile to post this type of news. Engadget Post: Joystiq Post: Phil […]

Techreport has the scoop on Nvidia's upcoming drivers :). Looks to be a few good fixes for HTPC users. Although I don't hear to many people complaining about HTPC Vista issues. From the article: – Playback issues when playing TV/DVD/video in Media Center with Aero enabled – Outputting via TV-Out shows only a black and white display – HDTV output […]

Thursday again, so that means it's time for the Media Center Show podcast. This time up is Todd Headrick from the Windows Home Server team. I've mentioned before my own personal dissapointment that there wasn't more integration with MCE on this, but nonetheless, it can still be a useful OS to backup & host your files. Here are the show […]

Xbit Labs has a good article up testing video card capabilities during playback of various types of media files. They do a good job of using differents types of clips including H.264, MPEG-2 and DivX. From the article: The CPU is loaded quite heavily at that, especially when it comes to the current version of ATI Avivo and H.264, but […]

I forgot to post the Digg It link for Mike's great guide to enable concurrent sessions in Vista. I do believe this is something that is of interest to people outside the community. Please Digg It if you enjoyed his guide. Digg Link: Concurrent Sessions Guide  Thanks! -Alan

Uh oh. It looks as though I had better pack up MissingRemote.com and call it a day. [H]ardocp, one of the oldest and most popular gaming sites on the net, has an article declaring HTPCs will be dead sooner then later as a result of emerging technologies from content providers and streaming devices. I do not consider myself an expert, […]