ZDNET UK, Rupert Goodwins’ Diary:

Thus, all those carefully set up WMC boxes were reduced to playing back video. Or at least trying to - with loads of remote controls all set up for the same codes, it was more like a game of laser tag. Could you squeeze in a journalist-impressing burst of pre-recorded footie before the next-door stand switched your computer into a game of Reversi? (No.)

Perhaps now is a good time to leak the news that we will soon be releasing a TweakMCE power toy that enables geeks to tweak Media Center to their hearts content. I PM’d this bundle of goodness and we’re just waiting for some final pieces to come together (the right EULA, final graphics for the icons) before releasing it along with a few other power toys.

One of the many settings is ‘Set Remote Control ID’ which tells you how to reprogram your Media Center remote to send a unique identifier with each IR command and then the application tells Media Center to only respond to that ID. We need this because, by default, Media Center listens for all remote control IDs (1-7).

The feature is not compelling for end users because it is very unlikely they have two Media Centers in their living room but I think it will be a popular feature amongst the marketers who are on the road and are often in a remove full of Media Centers.