Yeah but waht Larry had was a tower. Not a lap top. It was verry cool.
Infact, that's how I first heard of Media Center.
On 1/30/2019 11:14 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Ah yes
I had one of those Hp Notebook PC’s and they were absolutely amazing.
As you say the control revolved around Windows Media centre.
On 31 Jan 2019, at 1:05 am, Hamit Campos <[email protected]> wrote:
Ah no it is an HP PC designed with Media Center in mind. But yes I
dephinetly have a silicon Dust in mind as an accessory to get. But first
I need a Dell XPS tower. But in any case the M495C was a PC tower with
all kinds of connections and things. Infact you have the demo Dain. As
you have all the BCT podcasts. I'd like to try and figure out something
about those by the way. Because my internet is too wimpy for how we
tried to have me download them. Also I'm not gonna make ya ship me DVDs
over sees. For each folder ya told me was 4 gigs. That's pretty much a
DVD. But yeah it's 1 of the things he demoed in 2005.
On 1/29/2019 11:38 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Is that device Larry demonstrates a TV tuner? If so then I can recommend
something which I think is very good and I’m talked about the products from
Silicondust before.
Plex finds them right out of the box so all the user has to do is connect to
the LAN, connect to a TV aerial, Connect to a mains power outlet and switch on.
The tuner has a handy interface for monitoring the tuners and watching live
television from your browser.
You can also check the status of each tuner - see what each is doing -, perform
a channel scan etc.
On 30 Jan 2019, at 3:25 pm, Hamit Campos <[email protected]> wrote:
I too have and still use Media Player. I use it because of the SRS Wow effect
you can put on music. Though if I bought SoundForge Pro i can expand the stereo
and SRS Wow the music my self. lol I've heard of Media Center and kinda poked
arround in it on my Vista laptop. I never did end up buying a TV tuner thus
never did take full advantage but from Larry Scutchan's demo of his HP M495C it
sounded like pure epicness. Man how I'd love to get my hands on an epic HP
M495C though like Dain would rightly point out it's no longer a thing. It's
from freeking 2004. Well 2003 even perhaps. But dude it's epic me wants 1. So
yeah I agree with Dain. It is better to move on especially if said epic thing 1
is discussing is no longer being updated or if it has no real use no more.
Which since Microsoft bent the knee to the TV guys or what ever that was all
about is saddly the case for Media Center. Actually I think there's more to the
whole thing than that. Leo Laport just said that because he's kinda anti coppy
right law. Or I guess how the industries are kinda snow flaky about you doing
stuff. Na remember the best Media Center ever and the last 1 was Windows 7.
That must mean something happened since 7 that they decided to say uncle. Thus
Dain, the 1 you could buy since Windows 8 was basically the same Windows 7 1.
All though I hear it was crippled. Oh and that reminds me I never got an FM
tuner either so never played arround with the Radio. Oh well. So much for my
epic plans I had for Media Center. But I guess when I do buy an XPS like Dain
said I could always still buy a tuner and use Plex or something.
On 1/29/2019 6:25 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
While I don't have any experience with Windows Media Center, I have used
Windows Media Player...and never was a huge fan of it! Having said that, at
one time, I used Windows Window to rip CDs as it seemed pretty straight-forward
to me; it already would rip the track titles right out of the box! But they
they changed the look of it; didn't seem (at least to me) that intuitive!
Tom Kaufman
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What you forwarded to the list comes as no surprise to me and yes Microsoft do
analyse usage data of their Apps.
Windows Media centre hadn't - when I last used it - been updated for a good
while and had at that time fallen behind many other alternatives.
I now use Plex to handle everything that Windows Media Center did though -
given I use Windows 10 - I couldn’t have used Windows Media Center even if I’d
wanted to as Windows Media Center doesn’t come as part of Windows 10.
I very much liked Windows Media Center however because of the infrequent
updates known problems with the App just weren’t fixed whereas Plex and VLC are
updated frequently.
As for upgrading to Windows 10? There are plenty of good reasons to do so
including better handling of audio and video devices, a far more stable
operating system etc.
Anyway its the individuals call.
On 29 Jan 2019, at 3:06 pm, Tom Kaufman <[email protected]> wrote:
If you are running Windows 7 and like to use Windows Media Player, this may
be something you'll want to read!
Tom Kaufman
From: marianne Interest
Hi Tom,
If you use Windows 7 as I do, this may be of interest to you.
Windows 7's Windows Media Player app is about to get worse
By
Matt Hanson
3 hours ago
Software
No more metadata
As Windows 7 hurtles towards its end of life date (January 14 2020), it
looks like Microsoft is beginning to strip features from the ageing
operating system,
and it has now removed a key feature from Windows 7's Windows Media Player.
According to
a support document
that Microsoft quietly updated a few days ago, "you may be unable to view
information (metadata) such as the title, genre, and artist for songs, and
the
director, actors, cover art, and TV guide for movies in Windows Media Center
and Windows Media Player."
This move also affects the Windows Media Center app found in Windows 7,
Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.
So, it looks like when you import music or videos into Windows Media Player
in Windows 7, titles, artist names and other information won't be
downloaded.
This is a major blow to the usefulness of the app, in our view.
Why?
Microsoft looked at customer feedback and usage data regarding the feature
and decided to discontinue it, so it probably means not many people were
using
it.
If you were, it might mean it's time to finally upgrade from Windows 7 - as
you'll probably want to anyway before January 14 next year - or start using
an alternative such as
VLC Media Player.
While the removal of this feature is disappointing, Microsoft has promised
that metadata that's already been downloaded will still be available - it
just
won't download metadata for new media you add.
Microsoft has also explained that this change won't affect any of the app's
media playing functionality, such as playback, media stream and other major
features.
Still, it's a reminder that it's probably worth thinking about upgrading to
Windows 10.
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