Adam Thursby's Blog (8)

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. From the post on… Continue

If you spend any time at The Digital Lifestyle you know that Ian has his annual Digital Lifestyle Awards and it’s that time of year again. This year there are ten categories for you to nominate your favorite apps in covering both Media Center and Windows Home Server. From the post: For the first time I have added Windows Home Server to the categories due to how many of us hav… Continue

Ian at The Digital Lifestyle is reporting that DirecTV may be suspending it’s HDPC-20 project for Media Center. This news comes way of Julie Jacobson’s blog and originally from Gearlog. According to the Gearlog post, a DirecTV spokesperson stated: "DIRECTV has suspended the development of the HDPC-20 tuner project that was designed to integrate DIRECTV service into Windows Media Center after assessing the impact of missing the August 2008 release of Windows Media Center update and considering… Continue

While perusing the web this morning I came across a website which looks to show big business that most people aren’t criminals and that we don’t want restrictions put on how we use our content. While I’m certainly someone who doesn’t believe in DRM, I do think that producers have the right to protect their content, they just haven’t found a very good way of doing it yet. DefectiveByDesign is an organization dedicated to telling the world to boycott DRM products and the site is full of ways to l… Continue