Microsoft Monitor: The Blog in Your Living Room

Why shouldn’t the family want to gather in front of the Media Center PC to watch a video or photo blog?

I was amazed at how easy it was to drop the memory for my camera into my Media Center and browse my photos (and rotate, delete, and touch them up) (thanks Ben! (Ben, my office mate, ‘owns’ this functionality)). The end to end solution I now want to see is using my remote control to get them on my blog. I have a bunch of photos languishing on my camera simply because it’s too much effort to get them onto my blog. I need it made easier and that’s what the 10′ UI is all about.

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Yay, for new toys!

Tomorrow morning I’m trading my HP 873n Media Center in for the Viewsonic m2000 Media Center because I need an optical (SPDIF) audio out port on it to get surround sound working with my receiver.

Ideally I’d like to try a Gateway 901x (link goes to 901) but I’m pretty far back on the waiting list.

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Press release, VBox Announces Support for Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center:

DTA150 and DTA151 add Digital High Definition television reception and recording to Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004

Now if only my building had a @#$% HDTV cable provider!

In any event, this is very cool. I think it’s also big news. I’m surprised this hasn’t popped up on Engadget, Gizmodo and PVRBlog. I mean enough press people clamour for this.

Update: Engadget coverage

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