Remote Media Streaming Coming to Windows 7 & WMP 12

By on March 8, 2009 in News, Video, windows 7, Windows Live

Great post from ZDNet blogger Zack Whittaker who picks out a new Stream menu in the new version of Windows Media Player that will ship with Windows 7.

The new menu option allows you to link your Windows Live ID with a Windows 7 user account and potentially stream your music, video and photos from any Windows 7 PC to a remote PC.

Sounds like the remote media streaming HP MediaSmart owners are now getting with the new EX485/487 home servers (or indeed that any Windows Home Server box can manage via a service like Orb), but baked into the operating system itself.

As yet, it’s unclear how users will be able to access their media across the internet(it could be from within WMP, or a future Windows Live Media Player, perhaps?) but good to see Microsoft getting the plumbing in place to enable a great media experience out of the box with Windows 7. Remember too, if the next version of Windows Home Server is indeed based on the Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 platform, anything you see in Windows 7, you’ll find in Windows Home Server in the future.

More Info: ZDNet

Image: ZDNet


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  • urmaster

    Good news even though 9/10 people don’t have the broadband to support video streaming, the plumbing as was adequately so put is there. Even better news from a WHS V2 standpoint

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  • wayne

    I wonder if this is based on WebGuide as MS hired Doug Berrett who was the guy who wrote WebGuide.

  • http://www.indygaming.com Kevin

    OMG…. I see an AWESOME opportunity for this, though knowing Microsoft, they’ll certainly screw it all up.

    This would play in perfectly with my dream gadget which would be a Windows Mobile/Windows Live/Zune/Phone to compete with the iPhone

    With a 3G connection, you would have plenty of bandwith to stream music and pics; it could stream video too if it were converted on the fly to a decent bitrate on the home server (I know this is true because I use 3G to connect to my Slingbox at home and get decent bitrates from that – the rate limiting issue is more the upload from home than the download from 3G).

    And yes, I can see how this “might” be tied into a webguide type of webapp…. I so hope they are thinking along these lines and get this right………………….

  • urmaster

    @Kevin – Well windows mobile 7 is still under wraps it could well be an iPhone competitor

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