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Breckenridge: Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials

By on November 8, 2010 in News, Small Business, Windows Media Center, Windows SBS 2011 Essentials

Over in Germany, Microsoft announced early today a new edition of the Windows Server family called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials, formerly codenamed “Breckenridge”. Based on the Windows Home Server codebase, the platform provides client and server backup features with the ability to join an existing domain in an Active Directory environment.

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How to: Create a Mac Mini Media Center (Part 7 – Set Up Media Center)

By on November 4, 2010 in How to Guides, Media Streaming, News, Windows, Windows Media Center

We’re very close to finishing our Mac Mini Media Center project, and its time to open up Windows Media Center itself and get it configured for watching Live and Recorded TV, Videos, Photos, Music and a whole lot more.

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How to: Create a Mac Mini Media Center (Part 6 – Connect and Configure the TV Tuners)

By on November 3, 2010 in How to Guides, Media Streaming, News, Windows, Windows Media Center

Our Mac Mini Media Center series continues as we connect up Silicon Dust’s HDHomeRun Network Tuner, which allows simultaneous recording of two TV programmes, and places your antenna feed on the network, accessible by any PC, Mac or compatible device.

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How to: Create a Mac Mini Media Center (Part 5 – Installing and Configuring the Media Center Remote Control)

By on November 2, 2010 in How to Guides, Media Streaming, News, Windows, Windows Media Center

As our Mac Mini is going to be positioned in the lounge, powering the content viewed on the large screen TV, trying to control it with mouse and keyboard would not be the most fun. Windows Media Center is best controlled with a Media Center remote and that’s the subject of the next part of our how to series.

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How to: Create a Mac Mini Media Center (Part 4 – Installing and Configuring Codecs)

By on November 1, 2010 in How to Guides, Media Streaming, News, Windows, Windows Media Center

Our guide to creating a Mac Mini Media Center continues. We’ve installed Windows 7, but ensuring we can play the widest variety of file formats in the best quality possible requires a little bit of work. It’s time to enter the world of codecs! The previously impenetrable dark arts of codec configuration have been helped enormously by the release of codec packs, which come with easy to configure front ends. But ensuring our Mac Mini makes friends with an AV Receiver involves a little bit of persuasion.  You want 1080P high definition video? 7.1 Surround Sound? Dolby Digital and DTS Audio? The Mac Mini can do it all. Find out how…

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Meanie Transforms Your Smartphone Into a Media Center Remote

By on October 28, 2010 in News, Windows Media Center

Media Center remote broken? Or do you just fancy showing off what that new smartphone of yours can do? Meanie lets you scoot around Windows Media Center all from the comfort of your handset.

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SecondRun.tv Gets a Second Run

By on October 28, 2010 in News, Windows Media Center

v2.0 of SecondRun.tv has been released this week – it’s a plugin for Windows Media Center which brings together a host of online media into a familiar guide format, split by channel. A wide variety of media types are supported, including Netflix and Hulu channels, flash based video content, streaming video from the web, video from RSS feeds as well as locally stored video such as DVD rips.

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Transcode DVD Video in Windows Media Center With AVA Media NVT

By on October 12, 2010 in News, Windows Media Center

Tranquil PC have released a free(ish) plugin for Windows Media Center, which allows you to transcode DVD video files to a range of formats, all within Windows Media Center’s beautiful user interface.

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Add-in Update: My Movies for Windows Home Server v1.6.0.3

By on September 29, 2010 in Add-in News, Add-ins & Apps, News, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

My Movies for Windows Home Server provides automated disc copying of Audio CDs and movies from internal or USB attached optical drives, adding meta-data to copied discs, or movies already stored on the server by monitoring your movie folders. Today both the Windows Home Server add-in and Windows Media Center plugin were updated with new features and fixes.

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Media Center Master & Media Browser Updated

By on September 22, 2010 in News, Software, Windows Media Center

Two essential plugins for Windows Media Center have seen updates over the last week. If you’re a Media Center user or you’re thinking about using Media Center for watching TV and Movies then you must check both of these out – whilst there’s a lot of buzz out there about Boxee, XBMC and Apple TV, Windows Media Center in conjunction with Media Center Master and Media Browser takes a lot of beating.

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