MCE doesn’t make the top ten?
I was bummed to read PC World’s Ten Reasons to Buy Windows Vista and not find Media Center on the list. Why? We’re doing lots of exciting new stuff with Media Center:
- OCUR – Record premium HD content!
- Visual refresh to the start page, galleries and overlays
- Music library perf improvements
- Support for chained DVD changers
- Re-thinking of how we organize experiences like music, pictures and videos
- TV mini-guide
- And much much more…
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Don’t feel to bad. They left off the new Tablet features too! And the article complained about it costing money. Seriuosly. If you had to buy all the features that are coming in the Vista time frame your never gonna get it for $100. Are you kidding me. Keep up the great work. My wife and I are very excited about your next release. It’s definately on my top 10 list.
Shahn
Really looking forward to the new features in Vista MCE, I have yet to find a product that handles large mp3 collections better. The one thing I wish would be added would be confirm music queue deletion. I don’t know how many time my buddies and I have spent 10 mins adding songs to the queue to only accidently hit the play icon instead of ‘add to queue’ icon wiping out the whole queue without warning(for some odd reason the problem seems to get worse during late night poker marathons when a few beverages are comsumed). The ‘add to queue’ icon needs to be the defaut icon above the play icon or a confirm popup warning you that the queue will be wiped. Has anyone else come across this or am i the only one that uses on the fly music queue/playlist?
why? Overly restrictive DRM, no firewire or clear qam HD, no clear upgrade path for existing users, the end of of small OEM’s to build MCE’s, no hope of DIY’s to build MCE systems, only unidirectional cable card, HDCP fiasco, and Vista is still a year away (if it stays on schedule). Vista is making MCE irrelevant in the living room. chalk up another win for the cable companies and their lousy (but cheap and easy to implement for the average user) boxes.
Well said, Tommy — couldn’t agree more. MCE goes from #1 on my Vista list to almost irrelevant for exactly those reasons.
I also cannot wait to check out the new features of MCE in Vista. Especially with my neato Xbox360 hooked up to it.
Do you know if the next CTP build of Vista (MSDN Universal) will already make it possible to connect it to a 360? Would be killer! Thanks
Also the lack of support and the problem, that MCE was/is devloped for the US market…
- no real Satelitte (PCI/external Receiver) support for both channel and EPG!