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HP Touchsmart

Digital Living HP has reinvented the media center PC, and it's got a touchscreen. Would you put this in your kitchen?

25 May 2007, 16:29

Which TV should I buy for gaming and a Media Center setup?

Digital Living I have a Media Center PC, which I use a lot for PC games. If you are going to watch HD DVD or Blu-ray movies on your PC in the future, you need to make sure that both your new LCD and your Media Center PC have a DVI or HDMI port that supports HDCP...

14 February 2007, 12:51

Which Vista version is for me?

Digital Living This has all the fun stuff you find in the Ultimate edition, including Media Center, Windows DVD Maker, a selection of games and the Windows Aero interface, which gives you those funky 3D effects everyone loves so much.

7 February 2007, 13:45

Acer Aspire iDea 500

Digital Living Sleek, powerful and blessed with everything from a standard aerial socket to an HDMI output, the Acer Aspire iDea is the acceptable face of the Media Center PC concept -- but would you have one under your telly?

14 July 2006, 13:58

BT has seen the future, and it's white

Digital Living You might be forgiven for thinking that Microsoft had already offered to provide this domestic organ with the Media Center PC. It's been an important week for BT. The company has launched its biggest marketing campaign since it started pushing...

26 June 2006, 16:33

Why is my best TV in my shed?

Digital Living This is why Media Center is such a disaster for Microsoft, and will continue to be so: nobody wants to think of the PC or a TV as being the centre of their house, their living room, or their life -- especially if it is.

6 May 2006, 7:00

Leaving Las Vegas

Digital Living Intel is trying to help build the platform for a Windows Media Center PC world with its Viiv branding campaign, but I don't think I'm the only one who's confused by this. He then proceeded to demonstrate what will happen to the TV business if it...

11 January 2006, 15:45

CES: Drama in the desert, but what's the story?

Digital Living The most painful moment of last year's show came during Bill Gate's demo of Media Center, Microsoft's foray into the living room. The demo gods frowned once more upon the mighty Gates and the media-centric version of Windows failed ignominiously...

4 January 2006, 11:43

Elonex Lumina

Digital Living The Lumina is a handsome all-in-one Media Center PC that looks like an elegant flat-screen TV. Could you live with it in your living room?

24 June 2005, 12:01

Microsoft's Media Center mansion

Digital Living The grand downstairs living room had a Media Center PC, while the kitchen had a PC running Windows XP. The upstairs living room had a Media Center PC; the upstairs bedroom had one, too. So how excited you are about Microsoft's mHome is really a...

2 June 2005, 17:10

The digital won't let me go

Digital Living Microsoft, as always, has seen the enormous potential of a huge market, and for years has been plugging away at a home computing platform, Media Center. The idea of Media Center is a single device to manage all the different boxes currently...

16 May 2005, 11:40

Format wars: The tech that should have won

Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed

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