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Behind the Bugs during Bill G.’s CES Keynote

For those of you who hadn’t heard, Bill Gates CES keynote was marred by three crash/errors last Wednesday. Now, Sean Alexander, product manager for Windows Media Center edition, has posted his behind the scenes post-mortem on what actually happened on … Continue reading

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HP Goes Linux for Home Entertainment

Despite already offering one of the slicker Windows Media Center solutions, Hewlett-Packard is announcing a Linux-based home entertainment hub at CES this week. Link to C|net report. HP’s new media hub will run the Linux operating system, include HD TV … Continue reading

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Update: OnCinema MCE

For those of you DIY-types who lust after the Italian OnCinema TEATRO D1 A/V component sized, aluminum encased MCE 2005 PC with a built-in 7-inch touch screen I discussed earlier, here’s a nice option. Atechfabrication has announced a slick case, … Continue reading

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MCE Envy

It’s Italian. It has a built-in touchscreen. It’s freaking gorgeous. It’s the most lust-inducing Windows Media Center Edition PC I’ve seen to date. The specs – 7” 1280×720 VGA touchscreen, dual layer DVD burner and 500gbHD, dual SD tuners, plus … Continue reading

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Windows Media Center Extender

I installed the new-fangled Windows Media Extender for Xbox today. Very simple. Drop the ‘Media Center for Xbox Disc’ (DVD) into the Xbox, connected to the same network subnet as your MCE 2005. Why should you care? Well, if you … Continue reading

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Qosmio

Yesterday I recieved a new laptop – the Toshiba Qosmio F15 Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 multimedia machine. Amazing little laptop, that – integrated TV tuner, PVR functionality, 80GB drive, Pentium M 745/1.8ghz, NVIDIA GeForce FXGo5700/128MB, etc. Early reactions … Continue reading

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