Communication Arts Interactive Annual Awards, Interactive Annual 11: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.
Charlie talks about CA and underscores just how cool this is:
Communication Arts is the leading trade journal for visual communications. It’s the largest design magazine in the world and showcases the top work in graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography and interactive design.
Yahoo/Reuters, Reuters Summit - TV seen following Net model:
Rather than passively flipping through a conventional electronic program guide much in the same way they would a print TV Guide, viewers are more likely to actively search for programs as they would on a Web site, top executives in both industries said at the Reuters Telecommunications, Cable and Satellite Summit this week.
I really agree with this article. However, input program titles into a search engine on your TV with a remote control is going to be incredibly cumbersome.
Are we going to adopt T9-esque input or will keyboards become more prevlant in the living room for interacting with your TV? (I’ll leave speech recognition unsaid).
In the spirit of who works at SnapStream. Here’s a few people who work on Media Center:
So left to right, that’s Ben (program manager), me, and Kort (designer). Mark (designer) took the photo because we were likely debating some functionality in our product and so we needed a photo on a camera connected to a Media Center to figure out what it the actual behavior was.
(Hopefully Ben and Kort don’t beat me up tomorrow for posting this lame ass photo!).
Looks like Skype is coming to MCE via a plugin. Cool stuff!
Last week I had a problem with my Media Center where the Media Center Receiver service was crashing every few minutes. This made it impossible to use since crash reports were coming up faster then I could dismiss them and my hard drive was filling up with event logs. Fortunately I have the priviledge of bringing my machine into work and having the experts figure out what’s wrong. The problem it turned out is that there is a conflict between Media Center and Morgan Stream Switcher. I don’t understand what the conflict is, but there is a conflict, and once I uninstalled Morgan Stream Switcher I could use my machine again.
MSDN, The .NET Show: Windows XP Media Center Edition:
In this episode John Canning, Charlie Owen, and Michael Creasy share some details about Windows XP Media Center Edition and how it provides an integrated home audio and video experience.
The Podcast Network, The Media Cente Show #20 - Matt Goyer:
On this weeks show I have Matt Goyer from the eHome team at Microsoft, we talk about Media Center, extenders, power toys and much more.
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