Tag: General Media Center News

Our man with the microphone, the ever impressive Mike Garcen, will be on Ian Dixon’s famous podcast for a Live Q&A session. I dare anyone to ask if Mike records "Adult shows" ;). Mike does a great job and I encourage you to head on over and listen to this session. Ian Dixon’s announcement Just remember, I tought him everything […]

Ian covers a plethora of topics and brings in an expert from HP to discuss the latest Power Pack release for Windows Home Server which fixes the nasty data corruption bug. Show Times: 00:50 Coming up this week 01:37 Email – Which Extender has the best WAF 03:45 Email – Media Center on Windows Server 2008? 04:10 Ed Bott on […]

Only days after Engaget confirmed that the big features most of us Media Center enthusiasts were looking for namely — H.264 support, which lays the foundation for DirecTV support and the Hauppauge HD-PVR, were not coming in the Update Pack for VMC. It is now coming out that there may indeed be a second major update to Vista Media Center before Windows 7 to include the […]

I can’t really comment if Microsoft’s taking over TGB will be a good thing or a bad thing. Only time will tell! My hunch is that the whole deal will be a wash. The increased Microsoft presence should offset a community site being run by a corporation. Chris Lanier Other changes will be coming, but as the official announcement states […]

Everyone’s new favorite container is getting a push in the right direction with DivX throwing their weight behind it. Do you want to find out more about MKV files? Well head on over to their official homepage. As the official homepage mentions, think of it as an envelope that can contain many audio and video files. As a side, SageTV […]

If you are having problems with your CableCards recently, please post in this GreenButton thread. Microsoft is currently investigating why everyone seems to be getting restricted content errors every 24 hours. More information about the problem and potenial workarounds can be found in this mr.com post and in the comments. 

If you are a media center tweaker, head on over to game.amd.com to check out the latest ATi Catalyst release. Improvements include 1080p/24p support. Game.AMD.Com   Catalyst™ Control Center Component Video This release of Catalyst™ introduces 480i and 480p support. These formats will be found in the pre-defined component video format list found in the Catalyst™ Control Center->Component Video->Advanced page. […]