The Verge set the Windows Media Center community on fire this morning with their article titled “Media Center excluded from Windows 8 ‘Consumer Preview‘”. As one might expect…
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Without a doubt, one of the most critical features to the success of Windows Media Center has been open support of CableCARD. Once the archaic restrictions were lifted allowing anyone to buy and…
When Windows Home Server 2011 was announced I was extremely excited. I participated in the beta, and I now have a dedicated 8TB Raid 10 running in my closet. Not only will WHS2011 store all of your…
Our high hopes for Paramount's UltraViolet launch get quickly dashed as they unveil an unreasonably expensive storefront with severe limitations and problems. Perhaps the best news is that Paramount…
ZOTAC continues to deliver hot new products to us home theater PC enthusiasts. Yesterday we showed you their new Intel D2700 based Mini-ITX motherboard, and today we have a new PC to check out. This…
When it comes to building tiny home theater PCs it’s hard to beat the Mini-ITX form factor of motherboards. Zotac has been one of the go-to manufacturers for Mini-ITX boards regardless of…
One of the higher profile products to be announced at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show has been the Simple.TV. It’s a device that works as a DVR for people who don’t want to…
Reycom is a company that we heard from, and wrote about, last year at CES. They displayed a set-top-box DVR built on Windows Embedded Standard 7 utilizing Windows Media Center for the user interface…
Today, at the Consumer Electronics Show, Ceton is inviting the press to their suite to show off what they’ve been working on, and it should excite a lot of people in the Windows Media Center…
With CES open to the press last night, we picked some of our favorite (good and bad) products from the exhibiting vendors.
A recent patent indicates that the next Microsoft Xbox may include DVR functionality.
It appears the holidays may not be so happy if you’re counting on your Windows Media Center PC to continue recording all of your favorite television shows! As we discovered while trying to…
