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Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 review
Reviews Like most pioneering products, the first version of Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition, released in early 2003, showed lots of promise but suffered from rough edges. Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 lets you control the digital content...
[October 9, 2003, 14:55]
Real Enables Windows Media On Linux
News RealNetworks will release open source software this year that will let Linux computers play Windows Media files. Currently, Linux users can play Windows Media Video (WMV) and Windows Media Audio (WMA) content if they install closed-source modules...
[August 16, 2006, 8:40]
Disney To Deliver Content With Microsoft
News At January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Bill Gates showed off the latest versions of the company's Media Centre, a version of the Windows operating system built particularly for this kind of home theatre hub, aimed at letting people...
[February 9, 2004, 11:25]
Microsoft Makes Longhorn In Modules
News Microsoft sells four different versions of Windows XP for PCs -- Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, Tablet PC and Windows XP Media Centre -- with additional versions for embedded devices and 64-bit workstations.
[May 27, 2003, 16:13]
HP Hopes New Blue PCs Will Tempt Consumers
News All Media Centre PCs are based on Microsoft's Windows XP Media Centre Edition software. On the other end, Pavilion models with DVD burners as well as several new Media Centre PCs will help HP compete with a Sony's latest Vaio desktop PCs.
[June 19, 2003, 15:51]
Service Pack 2 Gets The Green Light
News Microsoft said the release of SP2 also brings with it major improvements to two specialised versions of Windows XP: the Tablet PC and Media Centre editions. If you are running Media Centre, you get Media Centre.
[August 9, 2004, 8:45]
Next Windows To Turbo Charge Notebooks
News The company is even exploring ways that media files could be accessed without logging into Windows as a way to make the experience more comparable to consumer electronic devices. To accomplish this feat, Microsoft is looking at the possibility of a...
[May 6, 2004, 9:25]
MS Takes Aim At RealNetworks... Again
News Microsoft's Windows Media Player 7.0, available for download Monday night at the stroke of midnight, promises an all-in-one player that also helps users organise their audio and video content. According to data from Nielsen//NetRatings, the number...
[July 18, 2000, 10:00]
Toshiba Notebooks Aimed At Small Businesses
News The machine costs $2,199 and is similar to Toshiba's 17-inch Satellite P25-S609 Media Centre notebook. Although the $2,799 Media Centre machine offers a faster 3GHz Pentium 4 and 1GB of RAM. An M30-S309 model comes with 256MB of RAM, a 40GB hard...
[October 22, 2003, 13:10]
Dell Axim X50 review
Reviews Also, Windows Media Digital Rights Management 10 gives you access to audio and video content from subscription services such as Musicmatch and CinemaNow. The expansion options are particularly attractive since the X50 is the first Pocket PC to...
[October 14, 2004, 11:25]
MyUK Portal
Downloads MyUK is a UK biased portal designed for Windows XP Media Centre Edition. MyUK also contains an Online Media EPG which contains many TV & radio stations, streaming Webcams, and on demand features. MyUK provides information such as news, sport, lotto...
[September 29, 2005, 6:46]
A New Twist - NBC Online Olympic Coverage For Vista Only
Blog Comment To download and watch the Olympic Games from NBC, Windows Vista Media Centre is required (Vista Home Premium or Vista Ultimate). This is presumably available on Windows versions which support Silverlight.
[July 4, 2008, 12:55]
Media Centre Struggles With Digital TV Support
News However, it may end up being premature, as Windows XP Media Centre Edition (MCE) doesn't yet have the capability to integrate with digital video and audio broadcasting. The latest version of Windows, aimed at making it easier to use digital media...
[March 14, 2003, 13:33]
Gyrating Remote Controls Windows XP
News Gyration, creator of the gyroscopic mouse, has unveiled a wireless, motion-sensing remote control and mouse device that has been designed specifically for Windows XP Media Centre-based PCs. The Gyration Media Centre Remote was created to replace...
[June 20, 2003, 16:19]
Nice Idea - Poor Implimentation
Member Review Nice product, right price withsome Media Centre PCs now sub £900 (Evesham) -- shame that it's still too much Windows and not enough Media Centre. If it worked like you know a Hi-Fi would, it would be a winner, shame that it feels cobbled together.
[April 29, 2004, 13:27]
Sweeeeeet
Member Review Just used the Media Pad to play films on my TV, it's kind of like a dumbed-down Windows Media Centre display except you use the Media Pad as a remote control.Don't be put off by the price just buy one, you won't be sorry.
[March 1, 2004, 13:12]
Commonwealth Games Scores With Windows XP
White Papers Manchester 2002 Ltd, the company organizing the 17th Commonwealth Games, is preparing to install PCs running Microsoft Windows XP Professional at the event's media centre and athletes' Internet café. The organization chose Windows XP because it was...
[December 5, 2003, 23:00]
WizzDrive
Downloads Product includes a Windows application with Explorer plug in along with a feature rich on-line media centre for you to manage your digital content.This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[October 10, 2008, 16:01]
Windows XP: Entertainment And Multimedia review
Reviews That said, as well as offering the usual ability to play audio and video sources, XP's new Windows Media Player (WMP), version 8.0, can control and manage media. It also looks very different from the standard Windows Media Player, and comes with a...
[October 30, 2001, 15:23]
Microsoft Gives Media2Go Longer Name
News Just as Windows XP Media Centre Edition set a whole new standard for enjoying entertainment on the PC, Portable Media Centres will do the same for portable devices," Scott Horn, director of marketing at Microsoft, said in a statement.
[October 28, 2003, 13:55]
