Charlie Owen - Your first Media Center/Vista application (and a look at their secret room)

Posted By: scobleizer | Apr 7th, 2006 @ 7:17 PM | 134,025 Views | 42 Comments
Over in building 50 there's a secret room. It's never been shown in public before. What is this room for? Testing audio devices. It is a special room where it's completely silent and the walls have been treated to minimize sound wave reflections. After giving us a tour Charlie Owen, PM on the Media Center team, gives us a little taste of Windows Vista's Media Center features and shows us how to build your first Media Center application. Great discussion of Xbox 360 and the latest in Media Center functionality. The Vista demo starts at about 19:00 into the video. The Web site we talk about is the Media Center Sandbox, which is where you can learn more.
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#Apr 28th, 2006 @ 8:49 PM
jamesf
jamesf
Great video. But what I have to ask is: why on earth isn't MS pushing the Xbox 360 + MCE PC combo more? It's a fantastic solution, easy to set up, consumer-ready and performs flawlessly. For goodness sake, people think FrontRow is something new! MS is crazy not to get behind this platform with all its might; Dell should be selling HDTVs + X360 + MCE PC combos like hotcakes. It's the living room killer app.

Hopefully,
James
#May 1st, 2006 @ 7:38 AM
skatterbrain
skatterbrain
Planet Disintegrator Module
Very interesting session.  Maybe it's because I'm not from the Northwest, but I counted about two dozen instances where he answers a question with "So,..." or "And so,..."  Is that a local dialect thing?  Weird.  But then again, we answer questions with "Hell yeah..." or "Hell no..." a lot of the time here in the Southeast. Perplexed
#May 7th, 2006 @ 3:53 AM
Copsey
Copsey
Guys - will I be able to edit the "out of the box" media center experience?
I'm driving MCE from a 7" touchscreen and the thing that bugs me is the tiny scroll buttons - if i could edit the UI to increase these that would be great
#May 17th, 2006 @ 2:37 PM
TimmyM
TimmyM
PerfectPhase wrote:
Talking of media center, it would be great to have a media center plugin for channel 9 so I can watch the vids from the comfort of my front room


Install the TvTonic plugin for MCE and select Cannel 9 for one of your channels.

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