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Windows Home Server and Windows Media Center Share the Stage at CEDIA

By on July 11, 2008 in Hardware, Software, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

Microsoft plans on training CE professionals how to configure and use Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server.

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Take a Tour of the HP SmartHome

By on July 9, 2008 in Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

If you have been debating whether to spring for HP’s take on WHS, eHomeUpgrade has a short video which gives a pretty good run down of some of the unique tweaks that HP has made for their server.

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Fiji x 2 for Media Center? Just for DirecTV?

By on July 9, 2008 in Software, Windows Media Center

DirecTV and H.264 support were taking too long to implement and had to be cut because Microsoft had promised an update to OEMs by the end of July. But why delay H.264 support?

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Sony Releases Two New Well-Rounded Media Centers

By on July 9, 2008 in Hardware, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

Sony has released two new TP1 model Media Centers. The VGX-TP1DQ/B and the VGX-TP1D are the latest entry-level additions to Sony’s VAIO TP Home Theater PC line.

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WMC Plugin: Facebook in Windows Media Center

By on July 8, 2008 in Add-ins & Apps, Software, Windows Media Center

Ian Dixon has helped Martin Thornalley announce his new Windows Media Center application – Facebook for Windows Media Center.

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Media Center University Expands Again

By on July 8, 2008 in Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

Microsoft is certain that it wants to reach out to professional consumer electronics installers. Microsoft hosted a program called Media Center University at the Spring Electronic House Expo in Orlando last April as part of an effort to educate professional CE installers about the potential of Media Center in professional installations.

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DirecTV Missing the Flight to Fiji?

By on July 7, 2008 in Hardware, Software, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

We have been waiting on pins and needles for information, any information, on the next version of Windows Media Center, code-named Fiji. Unfortunately, all anyone has heard about Fiji in the last couple of months is that it is in beta testing, that it might be released late this year, and rumors that Fiji would bring support for the HDPC-20, the DirecTV tuner for Vista Media Center.

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Microsoft Loves The Green Button

By on July 6, 2008 in Windows Media Center

You can’t spend too much time in the Windows Media Center Community without learning about and coming to love The Green Button. As it turns out, the community is not alone in their love for The Green Button.

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Salutations!

By on July 6, 2008 in Site Updates, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

My name is Matt Miller. You are going to be seeing my name popping up around here quite a bit in the future so I wanted to take some space to introduce myself.

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