Media Center momentum

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Interesting Media Center Stats

James.Random() — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:42:38 GMT

Paul has some interesting stats about Media Center following CES last week: CES is the first consumer

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tayme — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:22:36 GMT

@Yawn! - The more that I think about it, the more I can't remember if the IR Blaster plugs into the TV Tuner card or the Remote Control Base station for the Media Center Remote...I sat it up a couple of years ago and it has been left alone to do its thing. I'll have to look when I am at home later on...I'll let you know.

--tayme

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tayme — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:06:56 GMT

@Yawn! - Yeah, my wife thinks I'm nuts. Our house is full of gear. I usually throw a few things on craigslist once a year to clean it out.

The IR Blaster that I have is the one that shipped with my HP Computer and Media Center Remote Control. I'm not sure who made the thing...maybe HP, but more than likely somebody else.

Regarding the bridging of your XE104's...so, there is no common power between the sections of your house? That may prove troublesome...

--tayme

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rjohn05 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:07:34 GMT

More TV manufacturers need to integrate MC extender technology into their TV sets. Samsung needs to jump on board.

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Yawn! — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:30:24 GMT

-OT

@Tayme,

>my MediaCenter PC via the standard A/V in ports and I use an IR blaster to tune the box.

Damm dude, you have an eye for the toys. Can you also pass along the brand of your IR blaster. Thanks in advance!

P.S. My XE104's are on there way now I just need to figure out how I am going to bridge them as I have a 3 room addition with its own power source.

Yawn!

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Sevenmack — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:31:38 GMT

Damn DirecTV. Love the service -- been a subscriber for a decade now and wouldn't even leave for cable -- but they have definitely slowed on innovation. They need to get into the game and develop a box that will work with MC yesterday.

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tayme — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:12:05 GMT

I do have a DirecTV tuner connected to my MediaCenter PC via the standard A/V in ports and I use an IR blaster to tune the box. In reality, it is the best IR blaster that I have ever used. I remember the days of connecting TiVo to DTV. The TiVo IR blaster sucked.

The quality of the recordings that I get are not too bad...but nowhere near HD quality. I like being able to copy the recordings over to my laptop to watch them when traveling.

--tayme

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mikegalos@msn.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:54:21 GMT

tayme

While they said they'd killed the HDPC-20 the people at DirecTV did make it sound like they were working on something else to integrated a DirecTV tuner kit with Media Center in the letter Ed Bott quoted.

Still, DirecTV has been promising a solution for a while now with nothing shipping to show for it.

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tayme — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:49:50 GMT

Bummer...I missed that on Engadget...and I don't regularly read Bott...That sucks...it had promise, I think.

--tayme

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gorath — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:44:15 GMT

I wish they'd work with SKY in the uk (digtial sattelite broadcasters) to find a way to let Media Center work as a sky receiver.

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mikegalos@msn.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:33:23 GMT

tayme

Ed Bott's reported about a month ago that DirecTV killed the HDPC-20.

blogs.zdnet.com/Bott

Which sucks for those of us wanting to replace their aged but still amazingly good UltimateTV boxes.

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m04arch — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:29:36 GMT

@ tayme

yeah the HDPC-20 has been 'temporarily shelved'

www.engadgethd.com/.../HDPC-20

I was looking forward to that. There was a time when TV sets were 'cable-ready'...plug the coax into the TV and you were golden. Wonder if we'll ever see computers/HTPC/Media PC's be 'cable-ready', 'satellite-ready' or whatever...

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m04arch — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:24:35 GMT

oops, sorry, I meant to include with other post b/c this is somewhat off topic for this blog entry, but what about Windows 7 playing well with Windows Home Server? Has anyone had a chance to observe this...Paul? I've heard but not observed that W7's Homegroup and WHS don't play well together.

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tayme — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:23:36 GMT

I wish that DirecTV would get to that rumored HDPC-20...that looks like a sweet little sat. tuner made to work with MC. But, alas...so far it has been nothing but vaporware.

--tayme