Comments on: The evolution of Windows Media Center

By: radny

radny — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:31:32 +0000

windows media center sucks

By: Globonetics

Globonetics — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:22:46 +0000

Media center is the worst version, released by Microsoft. Windows media center version was the best flop of Microsoft. But, media center included in windows 7 is far better than the previous one.

But, still requires a lot of modification for being a perfect media center.

By: Adrian Jones

Adrian Jones — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:10:38 +0000

For those in UK that want live internet TV use a great piece of freeware from milliesoft.co.uk called TunerFreeMCE. Cannot recommend enough and makes WMC useable in UK as Microsoft have obviously devoted their resource to US centric product.

By: MB

MB — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:15:47 +0000

I was never a big fan of either Windows Media Center, or Apple TV. My machines are mostly Apple, with some Linux and a new Vista laptop I bought recently.
I started playing with media center about 3 weeks ago, and I actually am finding that I like it (much to my surprise). I hooked it up to my 360 rather out of a “what the heck” mentality, and my wife just loved it.

I haven’t really played with many of the features yet, but I definitely like it better than the Apple TV.

By: Ralph Greenlee

Ralph Greenlee — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:55:45 +0000

I use Windows Media Center on Vista Ultimate with an ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner and I love it. I would just like to see the capability of searching the DVS-MR record by any and all its field as opposed to the six or sever ways WMC allows. Who has done this and/or who can make this happen?

thanks

By: Wade

Wade — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:32:45 +0000

+1 for Windows Media Center. Hoping to see componetized/incremental releases after Windows 7… I’d pay to see this particular functionality get better and better between releases.

By: JohnCz

JohnCz — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:36:08 +0000

I love Media Center UI too and the ability to extend a centralized UI around the home. However, I have to slam Microsoft for not releasing a extender client in Windows 7 that allows users to stream Live TV to other Windows 7 PCs. Originally, I thought that would be a perfect Windows Ultimate add-on that would give consumers a reason to upgrade to that sku. Now, with Intel and Adobe working to bring Flash to all TV’s. I think this is a bigger threat to Microsoft’s Media Extender platform then they might realize. They should also work with Intel in bringing Silverlight to those same TV sets. And in parralel to that effort, develop an Extender client using SilverLight.

By: Media Center and Vista need a divorce « onlydarksets

Media Center and Vista need a divorce « onlydarksets — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:58:19 +0000

[...] by onlydarksets on January 5, 2009 Long Zheng posted a link on his blog to a Microsoft-produced retrospective of the last decade of Media Center versions [...]

By: someone

someone — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:49:31 +0000

What a tease with the DirecTV clips…. Come on MS, work with DirecTV!

By: Nicko

Nicko — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:17:52 +0000

@Long Zheng: Haha, yeah, only 1080i – and it’s really dodgy at that unfortunately. Seven only ever seems to put a matrixed surround sound out (but with good picture) and Nine always does discrete (true 5.1 channel) (but with normally bad picture). You can see the compression artifacts. That said, it’s pretty darn good – it’s free after all! And still a big step up from SD! I love my Media Centre (and 360 extender!!!) too!