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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

Microsoft+looks+to+create+an+Apple-like+halo+effect+across+its+brands

Microsoft+looks+to+create+an+Apple-like+halo+effect+across+its+brandsI wish them luck but don't have hopeThe problem is that Microsoft is terrible at marketing to consumers. Microsoft's big successes have always been marketing to developers, businesses, and OEMs. The XBox may be the only exception to that rule although it really only competes with the PS3 and even...

Tags: Game players, Marketing research, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Games, operating system, media extender, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, marketing, Apple Inc., branding, Microsoft Xbox, brand

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

Build a $300 HDTV media extender

Build a $300 HDTV media extendernot sure...but it might install better if Ou would include a keyboard, mouse and monitor. Ubuntu might be a pretty good Linux distro, but even it wants to see those!Oh, right, that would also push the price over the magic $299 price point, wouldn't...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, HDMI, media extender, 1080p, KnoppMyth, HDTV

Discussion threads 2006-09-15

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

Apple afterthoughts: The real news is what wasn't announced

800 lb GorillaThe Gorilla not being mentioned is why the Beatles aren't in iTunes. This was the alignment of the planets, the day of days to bring Apple Corps library into the digital age of distribution.Sam "Sour Grapes" DiazApple puts a camera in the iPod nano and you write "No...

Tags: TVs, Digital music, Digital media, TV & Home Theater, Apple Inc., TV, Apple iTunes, Joe Consumer, camera, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

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

Windows 7, netbook support in the works for Windows Home Server

Windows 7, netbook support in the works for Windows Home ServerWin 7 Support?I've been running Win 7 for months and using it with my Windows Home Server without issue. It backs up files and I was able to use the WHS to restore a file that I accidentally overwrote...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), netbook, server, WHS, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Win7, Win 7

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

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

Logitech Harmony Adapter for PlayStation 3

What's turned out to be one of the most disappointing omissions regarding the PlayStation 3 has to be the lack of an IR infrared port. Getting the console to play nicely with a universal remote control has been quite infuriating, but we've tested some workarounds in the past. Those with...

Tags: Game players, Logitech, Sony PlayStation 3, adapter, Sony Playstation

Product reviews 2009-05-18

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 open retail stores. Yeah, good luck with that

Microsoft to open retail stores. Yeah, good luck with thatTime frame?"The time frame for opening the stores, as well as locations, will be the first order of business"How about a time frame of "never"? :)(That exec should take a cue from Libertarians who run for an office that's been vacant...

Tags: Retail, Microsoft Corp., retail company, good luck, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-02-12

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