December 2007 - Ian Dixon's Blog - The Digital Lifestyle.com: Windows Media Center news, podcasts, videos, forums and wikis

Media Center Extenders top PCPro's "Ten techs to watch in 2008"

It that time of year to predict trends for the new year and PC Pro have their predictions for the top techs of 2008 . In the list are things like Rich Internet Applications, 10 gigabit Ethernet and commercial P2P, topping the list are Media Center Extenders...

Published Mon, Dec 31 2007 11:23 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center

Last Chance to Vote in The Media Center Show Awards

If you haven't voted in The Media Center Show Awards , now is your last chance. The Vote page will be taken down Jan 2nd so you still have a couple of days. If you leave your email address when you vote you will be entered in the draw to win either mControl...

Published Sun, Dec 30 2007 8:50 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: The Media Center Show Awards

Ed Bott gets a Media Center Extender and loves it

As the Extenders for Windows Media Center have finally started shipping Ed Bott has got his hands on one . Ed's first impressions seem very positive especially for things like startup time and quietness. The unit Ed got is the diskless DMA2100 which looks...

Published Sat, Dec 29 2007 8:38 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center

Have A Great Christmas!

To all readers and listeners, have a great Christmas! Lets hope you get or give plenty of gadgets.

Published Mon, Dec 24 2007 11:58 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: None

The DigitalLifestyle.com Video Show #11 - 10ft Media's Media Center System

The Digital Lifestyle.com video show is sponsored by Embedded Automation 10ft Media make Media Center systems for consumers and businesses, they even install systems in dentists. A few weeks ago they were on The Media Center Show and we chatted about...

Published Mon, Dec 24 2007 11:01 AM by Ian Dixon

DIRECTTV and Sky Media Center hope? - Chris Lanier's Blog

Chris Lanier has a glimmer of hope that Sky and DIRECTTV maybe coming to Media Center. He found a couple of jobs indicating that development has started. There is nothing official but like Chris I am hoping that some new will be out at CES According to...

Published Fri, Dec 21 2007 3:53 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center

Zepto Helios TV with Media Center?

I reader sent me a link to Zetro's latest Helios LCD TV and the interesting thing about this TV is that on the web site it say that you can add the option of a built in "Wireless MediaCenter". A flash demo on the site shows the TV displaying...

Published Fri, Dec 21 2007 2:25 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center

Update on Media Center Health Monitor

I thought I would do an update on the status of Media Center Health Montior . The Windows Client has been updated to fix a number of bugs and the Web service has been significantly updated. All the pages on the web site have been "Ajaxed" so...

Published Fri, Dec 21 2007 12:38 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center

Microsoft start big push for Media Center Extenders

I have a conference call today with Microsoft on Windows Media Center Extenders and managed to get some details: Today Microsoft has started a marketing campaign explaining the benefits of Windows Media Center Extenders, so far the marketing of Extenders...

Published Thu, Dec 20 2007 8:04 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center

The Media Center Show #136 - Steven Hughes

Reposted from TheDigitalLifestye.com By Ian Dixon (18.2mb 53mins 00sec) Vote for the show on Podcast Alley Direct Download Link - Subscribe via iTunes - Subscribe via RSS Welcome to the final show of 2007 as I take a break for Christmas. I have a great...

Published Thu, Dec 20 2007 8:45 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Podcast

Honeywell Introduces HDMI to CAT-5 Converter

If you have cat 5 around in your home and are looking to distribute AV around them home then this HDMI to CAT-5 converter looks good for you (via eHomeupgrade ) Recognizing the high number of homes pre-wired with category cabling, Honeywell introduces...

Published Tue, Dec 18 2007 2:26 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Computer and Internet

Big Screen Photos V2 Release gets closer

Niall has posted details on the release version of Big Screen Photos v2. It looks a visual stunning application and works with Vista 32bit, Vista 64bit and XBox360 Extenders On the blog post is the time the cost of the application has been mentioned....

Published Tue, Dec 18 2007 9:52 AM by Ian Dixon

Media Center Health Monitor Update - Now with Web Service and Alerts

I have added some more features to Media Center Health Monitor . The application now also sends updates to a web service on TheDigitalLifestyle.com where you can log in and check the status of all of your Media Center Systems. If you enable the web service...

Published Fri, Dec 14 2007 12:20 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center

Great Video Demo of Media Center and its possibilities

This video on On10.net shows Steve Lindsay from Microsoft showing this Media Center system. He shows off Webguide, his 4 tuner system, Windows Home Server and a custom application for streaming DivX files. What I like about the video is it shows the real...

Published Thu, Dec 13 2007 1:44 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center

The Media Center Show #135 - 10ft Media

Reposted from TheDigitalLifestyle.com Find RSS Feeds, forums, downloads and video shows on TheDigitalLifestyle.com By Ian Dixon (18.2mb 53mins 00sec) Vote for the show on Podcast Alley Direct Download Link - Subscribe via iTunes - Subscribe via RSS This...

Published Thu, Dec 13 2007 12:50 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Podcast

UK, Ireland, Canada, France and Germany Get Xbox 360 Movie Downloads

As mentioned last week Microsoft's Xbox Live movie download is available today in UK, Ireland, Canada, France and Germany. There are 27 movies at the moment with more promised soon. According to Gizmodo "Standard definition movies will cost 250 Microsoft...

Published Tue, Dec 11 2007 11:06 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Xbox

I think it's time for Vista a "Home Media Suite"

Joe Wilcox posts an interesting article on the problems Microsoft has had with Bundling and Vista. He highlighted that with Windows XP Media Center Edition, Media Center had it's own identity and that now its integrated in to Vista Home Premium and Vista...

Published Mon, Dec 10 2007 10:15 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center

Big Screen Weather 2 update

One of my favourite developers of Media Center applications is Niall Ginsbrough, Niall has been nominated for multiple awards in this years Media Center Show Awards and his latest application looks a real winner. Big Screen Weather v1 was a great looking...

Published Sun, Dec 09 2007 9:07 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center

Dell CableCARD from $1079

Chris Lanier reports that Dell is offering CableCARD on it's XP420 range, and once the price doesn't seem to bad according to Chris. For only $1,079 you get a Q6600 Quad-Core, 3GB of RAM, 320GB HDD, DVD Burner, ATI Radeon HD 2400, and a single ATI Digital...

Published Sun, Dec 09 2007 8:50 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center

The Media Center Show #134 - Andrew Edney

By Ian Dixon (16.2mb 47mins 16sec) Vote for the show on Podcast Alley Direct Download Link - Subscribe via iTunes - Subscribe via RSS This week Andrew Edney , author of "Using Windows Home Server" joins me to talk about his new book and some...

Published Thu, Dec 06 2007 12:59 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Podcast

10 Foot version of Media Center Health Monitor coming soon

I have spent a fair amount of time on Health Monitor (to much!) and thanks to some good feedback I have added a number of function, including a 10 foot version. The two foot version monitors your system and there is an addin for Windows Media Center for...

Published Wed, Dec 05 2007 3:45 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center

Xbox video-on-demand confirmed for UK

Microsoft have confimded that it's Xbox Live Video on demand service has is coming to the UK. It's been something I have been waiting to come to the UK (along with the Zune) for some time and it's great to see Microsoft rolling it out to the UK. The HD...

Published Tue, Dec 04 2007 2:04 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Xbox

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Media Center Extenders top PCPro's "Ten techs to watch in 2008"

Last Chance to Vote in The Media Center Show Awards

Ed Bott gets a Media Center Extender and loves it

Have A Great Christmas!

The DigitalLifestyle.com Video Show #11 - 10ft Media's Media Center System

DIRECTTV and Sky Media Center hope? - Chris Lanier's Blog

Zepto Helios TV with Media Center?

Update on Media Center Health Monitor

Microsoft start big push for Media Center Extenders

The Media Center Show #136 - Steven Hughes

Honeywell Introduces HDMI to CAT-5 Converter

Big Screen Photos V2 Release gets closer

Media Center Health Monitor Update - Now with Web Service and Alerts

Great Video Demo of Media Center and its possibilities

The Media Center Show #135 - 10ft Media

UK, Ireland, Canada, France and Germany Get Xbox 360 Movie Downloads

I think it's time for Vista a "Home Media Suite"

Big Screen Weather 2 update

Dell CableCARD from $1079

The Media Center Show #134 - Andrew Edney

10 Foot version of Media Center Health Monitor coming soon

Xbox video-on-demand confirmed for UK