ship software. Why can't MS? All they have to do is support a certain
set of tv tuner cards. Shoot, even if it just gave you access to
pre-recorded video, sound, pictures, it would be worthwhile. The main
reason I want it is to use the XBox Extender and then get access to
music on my network. I don't plan on watching live TV on it.
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:18:03 -0400, Matthew Small
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's a reason for that - the XPMCE product is not intended as a complete
> OS add-on - there is a MCE SDK that OEMs use to write their own version that
> is customized for the hardware. That way it is a OEM fully-developed, fully
> supported product. It's intended to be a complete system that works out of
> the box, not something that Joe Bag-O-Donuts down the street puts together
> using a 486 and an old TV remote. Microsoft does not even support it for
> customers, we support only the SDK.
>
> There's a 2005 XPMCE sitting over here in the cube next to me, we've been
> using it for months. Nice.
>
> - Matt Small
>
> _____
>
> From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 6:04 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: XP Media Center news
>
>
> CRAP. CRAP. CRAP.
>
> >From Gizmodo:
> There's word from Matt Goyer, one of the Windows XP Media Center
> Edition 2005 program managers, that the new edition will not be
> available as a standalone retail product, although it will be
> available to OEMs and system builders as before. There's a lot to
> like, features-wise, about XP MCE 2005, but that is certainly
> disappointing news. A reasonable-priced standalone version might lure
> more of the home theater scene who are currently toying with MythTV
> and the like but are more comfortable with Windows than Linux.
> Instead, we've got to pay the hardware premium from OEMs just to get
> the software we might want.
>
> How stupid can MS be. Oh well, no XBox Extender for me.
>
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:02:40 -0500, Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Cool!!!!
> >
> > -Kevin
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:42:19 -0500, Raymond Camden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > So hey, a long time ago we talked about how MS was going to make a
> > > Media Center Extender for XBOX. We talked about how there was no way
> > > to upgrade a Windows XP Pro box to XP ME... it now looks like it will
> > > be possible, which makes the XBOX Extender possible! (Well, it was
> > > always possible, but I wasn't going to buy a whole PC for it.)
> > >
> > > http://www.engadget.com/entry/7828361058303561/
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
> _____
>
>
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