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Discontinuation Day: HP pulls plug on MediaSmart TVs, Linksys switches off its Media Center Extenders

On the march toward the integration of the PC and the home theater, there have been numerous casualties, and today apparently you can add a couple more to the list. Gizmodo has confirmed that HP has finally given up on a couple of its living-room initiatives, specifically the MediaSmart TVs...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Media Center PC, Media Center Extender, Linksys Inc., Media Center PCs, Web Site Development, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Media Center Extenders and programmable television

Media Center Extenders and programmable televisionI have a question, and you're the man to know, JohnI've been serving media to my Xbox from Windows Home Server (for which I'm a beta tester). I know the Xbox can play mpeg-4, and I regularly have it do so from thumb drives...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Apple Mac OS, Digital video, Operating systems, TV, WMC, codec, Microsoft Corp., WHS, Media Center Extender, Apple Macintosh, Media Center PC, MPEG-4, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Silverlight

Discussion threads 2007-09-07

Microsoft offers a peek at new 'Pika' Media Center Extender devices

Microsoft is starting to share a few more details about the "Pika" Media Center extenders being built by a number of its consumer-electronics partners. From Microsoft's September 5 press release: "The new Extender devices, which will be unveiled later this month in a variety of innovative...

Tags: Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-09-07

Media Center Extenders and programmable television

As I've indicated in the past, I'm a user of Windows Vista Media Center. Up till now, however, I've mostly used it through my XBOX. That, however, isn't ideal, as I don't like leaving my XBOX on indefinitely for obvious reasons, and restarting the box usually takes time (not LOTS...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Media Center PC, TV, MCML, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-09-07

Media Center Extender 1.0.0.0 (Windows)

Media Center Extender

Tags: Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows, Media Center Extender, Media Center PCs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2005-06-03

Additional Resources

Asus Eee Top ET2002

Nvidia wants us to tell you that its GeForce 9400M graphics chip, aka Nvidia's Ion technology, pulls Asus' Eee Top ET2002 up from the depths of Nettop misery by imparting it with better-than-terrible graphics and video processing. We agree that the 9400 chip improves the ET2002's visual chops, but a...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Games, Semiconductors, Keyboards, Video cards, Game players, nettop, chip, game, HDMI, ASUS, graphics

Product reviews 2009-10-20

The best $100 you've spent on killer tech?

If you had $100, what killer tech would you buy and why? For me it would have to be the Linksys Media Center Extender DMA2100. by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Home Networking, Networking, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-10-05

What do you want to know about the Zune HD?

MCE & Zune 4.0It would be really great to know if the new Zune software will sync with Windows Media Center. In previous versions, any playlists, album art, etc. would not show up in Windows Media Center. I figured when I ditched my iPod for a Zune that...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Digital media, Web browsers, Performance management, Digital music, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Zune, Media Center PC, Zune HD, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Windows Media, performance

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Harry Potter and the search for a true Media Center experience

Using Windows Media Center[i]I'm not saying that such a device exists, but having a combination of media streamers, extenders and digital video recorders would be perfect. Having a box which allows you to stream all kinds of media from a shared folder on your PC over a wireless N network...

Tags: Media Center PCs, TVs, Microsoft Windows, Digital media, TV & Home Theater, DMA2200, extender, Media Center PC, PC, TV, Microsoft Windows Media Center

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

Harry Potter and the search for a true Media Center experience

After spending hours researching, learning and trying to understand media streaming over a wireless network, I took a bold move and bought a Linksys Media Center Extender DMA2100 without entirely knowing what it would do, provide me, or even if it was what I wanted. I took...

Tags: Potter Inc., Windows Media, Media Center PC, Network, PC, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Media Extender, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Media Center PCs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-08-21

Microsoft struggles with Xbox vs. Windows Media Center positioning

Microsoft struggles with Xbox vs. Windows Media Center positioningUnacceptableI am hoping they will change this. Media Center is a good product. I do not want to have to hook my laptop to my TV just to watch a movie. If this is the direction they are going with their 3...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Game players, Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital media, Consumer electronics, Windows Media, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Media Center, positioning, Microsoft Corp., NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox, Medi

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

Scott Adams' "home server" would be a massive DRM and vendor lock-in

Scott Adams' "home server" would be a massive DRM and vendor lock-init already existsWindows Home Server?Apple will charge...One dollar less than "crazy expensive". That's the magic of Steve Jobs.Smart Home technologyAbout 20 years ago I worked with a company that installed custom control systems for edifices that controlled lighting,...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Linux, Construction, Bluetooth, TVs, PRODUCTIVITY, Digital media, TV & Home Theater, Apple Inc., Scott Adams, Apple TV, digital-rights management, home server, HVAC, TV

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Netgear Digital Entertainer Elite EVA9150

Many of the networked-media players we've looked at recently rely heavily on interfacing with Windows Media Center, the digital media hub software that's available on many--but not all--PCs running Windows XP and Vista. Some models, such as the HP MediaSmart Connect, can operate in "WMC Extender mode" or via their...

Tags: Home networking, Media Center PCs, Digital media, NetGear

Product reviews 2009-04-21

With Power Pack 2, Windows Home Server Finally Embraces Media Center

[Update: Thanks to the reader who pointed out that Windows Home Server doesn't load on your Media Center PC, but will communicate with it through the Media Center Connector app.] When Microsoft first released its Windows Home Server WHS OS, it seemed like...

Tags: Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Software, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-03-24

News to know: Amazon; Windows 7 beta; Ozzie; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Five things every Windows beta tester should know Zack Whittaker: Students and the Windows 7 release candidate Larry Dignan: Kindlenomics: Keep...

Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows 7, TomTom, Online Photo, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Beta, Brittany, Linux, Ultrawideband (UWB), Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-02

VME 1.2 (Windows)

VME is a new application that allows you to stream DivX and XviD to your Xbox 360 and Media Center Extender - but it doesn't stop there! It's also a complete encoding and streaming suite, allowing you to do such things as stream video from a web browser and PDA,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, Lightning Ware Solutions, VME, Corporate Communications, Media Center PCs, PDAs, Game Players, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Handhelds, Hardware, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-03-01

Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail stores

Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail storesWhat's Microsoft going to sell?Windows 7. Office. Anything else? Oh. Mice. Anything else?Well.....by the time they set up displays of their eleventeen versions of Windows, there won't be much room left for anything else, will there?Maybe they could use one...

Tags: Retail, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., own family, retail company

Discussion threads 2009-02-12

Sony DMX-WL1 Bravia Wireless Link

Photo gallery:Sony DMX-WL1One of Sony's latest strategies with HDTVs is to market a range of add-ons, such as the Bravia Internet Video Link, designed to work with its Bravia televisions. The most expensive such device so far is the DMX-WL1, otherwise known as the Bravia Wireless Link Module....

Tags: TV & Home Theater, TVs, Cable, Sony Corp., transmitter, Gefen EXT-WHDMI, external antenna, HDMI, wireless link

Product reviews 2009-02-03

CES 2009: Hands-on with Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio system

With its past purchases of Linksys and set-top-box maker Scientific Atlanta, Cisco hasn't exactly been subtle about its intentions to be a major player in the connected home. Thus far, those acquisitions hadn't produced anything particularly noteworthy, but that appears to change with the company's new Linksys by Cisco Wireless...

Tags: Speaker, Cisco Systems Inc., Director, Linksys Inc., Wireless, Home Networking, Networking, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-01-11

Linksys Media Center Extender DMA2200 - DVD player / digital multimedia receiver

With the introduction of Windows Vista, Microsoft hopes to get consumers one step closer to having a dedicated "family room" PC. Included in nearly all versions of Vista is Windows Media Center, a sort of multimedia portal that can access and play all kinds of digital media stored on...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Home networking, Consumer electronics, multimedia, Media Center PC, DMA2200, Linksys Inc., DVD, DVD player

Product reviews 2008-12-08