Jason Flaks - Demo of Windows Media Connect

Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Jul 8th, 2004 @ 3:15 PM

You might not have heard of Windows Media Connect technology. Jason Flaks, program manager on the Media Connects team, invited us over for a neat demo.

He shows how CD and DVD players and other devices use this technology to do media transfers between Windows XP based PCs and consumer electronics devices.

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Jazzynupe

Definetly way too cool!!!

I am sure that the Media Center Edition will have this feature... Or this will be an addon or part of Longhorn. Definetly something I was looking for... Hope to hear more about it...

LarryOsterman

Jazzynupe: Check here, it's where I wrote about it - it goes out this summer for XP SP2, I'm not sure the exact ship vehicle, it's a part of the set of releases associated with WMP10.

mf
Stays in Vegas...

WOW, I love playing around with this kind of stuff. Is there anywhere I can find a list of manufacturers supporting the technology besides the RF & gateway peices presented?

androidi

Is the "sorting" going to be easy to define? For instance I have only few albums, mostly singles and ep's etc and I sort them by the record label as its often more defining that genre sorting. Also suppose you have a SQL server with the data, can the devices get the "views" from there too?

jnmarczi

That looks pretty cool...

Does Windows Media Connect also contain a media controller to "remote contol" media renderers?

Will there be a beta program for windows media connect at beta.microsoft.com ?

Tom Servo
W-hat?

I hope this WMC isn't just UPnP AV renamed or "proprietarized".

variable

i don't get it. why do i need some extra box? my computer already does all this. i can use videos,music, and look at pictues. if i want it on my tv i could set that up too

Flaksman

This feature will be available in early Fall this year for ALL windows XP SKUs including MCE.

Jason FLaks
Program Manager

Flaksman

We will be posting a web page listing compatible devices when we release the software. Look for it off the Windows Media website

Jason Flaks
Program Manager