MCX Partner Site
Following our announcement at WinHEC enabling third parties to build their own MCE Extenders, we now have a MCX Partner Site:
If you’d like to receive more information as it becomes available, including developer documentation, resources, and the Media Center Extender Platform Adaptation Kit, please send an email to mcxprtnr@microsoft.com
Comments(5)
Finally Microsoft and Sigma Designs are working together. The 1st generation Extenders would have been much better had they used the EM8620L series processors from Sigma. Now years later with EM8622L I’m really hoping that some OEMs will take full advantage of the processor.
Considering this processor supports H.264, VC-1, WMV9, and MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/XviD), Extender partners should know that there customers are looking for support of all of them. We don’t want just WMV/VC-1.
Chris
As an owner of an IODATA Linkplayer with Sigma designs chip I am concerned that the newer chip has on board drm. Which means less horsepower for real features that users need and more crap that overly complicates products. The linkplayer even with repeated firmware updates can’t playback HD msdvr files from my MCE2005 machine with audio. Video looks good but no audio. And no they are not protected content just OTA HD.
The EM8622L support WMDRM, but I think the Linkplay is using the older EM8550. If Microsoft is using Sigma as their main partner for new Extender designs, I would think they will be tested _very hard_ to playback performance.
Any idea when/if a public MCX SDK is going to be available? Or is this only going to be available to OEMs for big license fees?
I love my Linksys MCX’s (I have 3 of them). They are silent and have the stereo form factor. They boot up a bit slow and their codec support is severly limited but they get the job done for being our network VCR.
Why did HP and Linksys dump mcx? Will Vista MCE support these old timers?
BTW, the 360 as an MCX is a failur IMO. Not silent, not form factor, and more expensive.