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So, you’ve seen me post here about the inability of Media Center to allow you to view online content from places such as Hulu.com and the various network websites. While you still (I don’t believe) be able to view this content on your extender, the gentlemen over at MissingRemote have found a way to Boxee into Media Center.

They’ve provided the files and instructions needed

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Can anyone tell me what the following list of items have in common:

TV SERVICES (some movie/video also):

• ABC


• Hulu


• CBS


• Comedy Central


• CNN


• The WB


• MySpaceTV


• BBC iPlayer for UK users

MOVIE/VIDEO SERVICES:

• Netflix


• Joost


• YouTube


• Apple Movie Trailers


• CNet


• Revision3

MUSIC SERVICES:

• MTV Music


• Last.fm

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Microsoft introduced their Internet TV service in Vista Media Center. It’s still in beta but from using it for a few days in 7MC I can tell you that they’ve made a few improvements. The first thing is that they’ve added it to the guide. You can remove these entries if you want to but it does make it a little more convenient. The interface once you click into these “channels” has gotten a little better. It still looks the same but seems to move a bit smoother both locally and on the Xbox

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Apparently Jerome Vashist-Rota, VP of creative, brand and community isn’t all happy that the Xbox 360 now support Divx. While he is happy that the 360 can read Divx encoded files, he’s not as joyous about that fact that MS decided to use a 3rd party codec to do so.

From the 1Up article:

"Currently, Microsoft does support DivX, which is fantastic, but the company has brought in some third-party support for th

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From Entertainment 2.0

Niveus, maker of high end Media Center equipment and HDGiants, providers of HD content have teamed up to make the HDGiants catalog available to Niveus media center owners.

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