Very great idea. I've been hoping for something as close as this to get released for some time.
Why doesn't Microsoft just take the initiative, and make deals with television station providers/broadcasting companies and have them work out ways to get their content DIRECTLY onto Windows Media Center?
If users could have the ability to pick and select the TV shows and channels that ONLY they WANT to keep, this would have a big impact on the way we watch TV. No more having to depend on cable/satellite companies to offer good content at a good price. Like most people, we want choices, but bundling a lot of TV programs in several packages, with you having to pay more and more for stuff you might never want just to reach the channel you do want, is ridiculous. Going 'a la carte' is becoming much more popular. Unfortunately, if cable/satellite companies offered this mode of TV viewing, they would make less money off of us.
Anyways, MiraWorldTV is a start. Maybe someday, we can actually see real support for letting you have options in a good way.
I'd argue that the 2003 version has a nicer interface, but I'm biased (and this screenshot is just one dialog of three.) Besides, the Type Key stuff allows you to try and remap keys that might not be on the 2003 version of the on-screen keyboard, like media keys and the like. Just an alternate approach
Otherwise, you could also edit the Registry directly - for me, it was more about exposing the Windows functionality (and avoid physically popping off the cAPS lOCK key from my keyboards.)
Joe Stegman - Building Outlook UI in 100 lines of code with Winforms
Oct 27, 2004 at 9:30 AMJoe Stegman - Developing rich user interfaces with Windows Forms
Sep 10, 2004 at 7:24 AMVery great idea. I've been hoping for something as close as this to get released for some time.
Why doesn't Microsoft just take the initiative, and make deals with television station providers/broadcasting companies and have them work out ways to get their content DIRECTLY onto Windows Media Center?
If users could have the ability to pick and select the TV shows and channels that ONLY they WANT to keep, this would have a big impact on the way we watch TV. No more having to depend on cable/satellite companies to offer good content at a good price. Like most people, we want choices, but bundling a lot of TV programs in several packages, with you having to pay more and more for stuff you might never want just to reach the channel you do want, is ridiculous. Going 'a la carte' is becoming much more popular. Unfortunately, if cable/satellite companies offered this mode of TV viewing, they would make less money off of us.
Anyways, MiraWorldTV is a start. Maybe someday, we can actually see real support for letting you have options in a good way.
Joe Stegman - Building Outlook UI in 100 lines of code with Winforms
Sep 10, 2004 at 7:18 AMI'd argue that the 2003 version has a nicer interface, but I'm biased (and this screenshot is just one dialog of three.) Besides, the Type Key stuff allows you to try and remap keys that might not be on the 2003 version of the on-screen keyboard, like media keys and the like. Just an alternate approach
Otherwise, you could also edit the Registry directly - for me, it was more about exposing the Windows functionality (and avoid physically popping off the cAPS lOCK key from my keyboards.)