media center

Linksys Media Center Extender DMA2200 review

Reviews Media Center PCs are a great idea. Once up and running, the DMA2200 displays a launcher menu on your TV that gives you the choice of playing a DVD or entering the Media Center interface. Since not everyone wants a noisy, unattractive PC in the...

Editor's rating   8

Tags: linksys, dvd player, streaming, high definition

7 March 2008, 10:39 > More matches in Reviews

Linksys Media Center Extender 2200: The wait is over

Crave Linksys recently sent us its Media Center Extender 2200 -- and shock of all shocks -- it doesn't suck. Any movies, music, photos or live TV on your Media Center computer can be enjoyed on your telly in another room over a wired or wireless 802.11a...

Tags: linksys, wireless, media center, wired

13 February 2008, 11:12 > More matches in Crave

Creative Zen Portable Media Center review

Reviews Throw a Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) PC into the mix and the Zen PMC turns into a portable playback-only device, allowing you to watch your recorded MCE broadcasts on the road. A major offshoot of this fledgling category is the Portable...

Editor's rating   7.7

Tags: creative, battery life, media center, windows media player

14 May 2005, 18:25 > More matches in Reviews

Creative Zen Vision: Buddha's media centre

Crave The portable music world has long had the iPod as its poster boy, but media centres have had no such public face. The Creative is aimed squarely at the novice thanks to Windows Media Player integration -- simply plug the device into a PC and it...

Tags: creative, hard drive, windows media player, vision

5 December 2005, 10:39 > More matches in Crave

Movies on the go: portable video players

Reviews Creative's Zen Portable Media Center is based on Microsoft's standard MC interface, which looks great and is easy to use. If you've got a Media Center computer packed full of recordings then it's easy, but for 99 per cent of people it proves a...

10 May 2005, 13:57 > More matches in Reviews

DivX 6.0: the MP3 of video

Crave It might not be as easy as MP3, but if you're as sold on portable media centres as we are, DivX is a must-buy. You think you're cool, sitting on the bus with your iPod Shuffle hanging round your neck like a piece of techno-jewellery.

Tags: divx, archos, divx video, played

1 August 2005, 11:49 > More matches in Crave

Archos AV700: muggings guaranteed

Crave If the Archos AV4100 is the VW Golf of the portable media centre world, then the new AV700 is a monster truck waiting to run over it and blow fire from its nostrils. It's huge -- about twice the size of the PSP, but its svelte frame means that you...

Tags: archos technology, psp, portable, upgrade

26 August 2005, 12:13 > More matches in Crave

Shuttle XPC G5 6801M: Media Center that swings both ways

Crave Shuttle is back with another Media Center PC, and this XPC G5 6801M is aimed at HD movie enthusiasts. Its major selling point is that it packs an LG Super Multi-Blue combi drive that can play Blu-ray movies and those dusty HD DVD discs too.

Tags: shuttle, hd, lg, hd dvd

7 May 2008, 10:57 > More matches in Crave

Media Center for TomTom

Downloads Media Center for TomTom Navigation system. Media Center for TomTom extents all-in-one TomTom navigation systems into a portable video center. Media Center software acts as a video player, and allows playback of pre-converted video files.

26 July 2006, 20:31 > More matches in Downloads

Media Center Karaoke Plug-in

Downloads Media Center Karaoke Plug-in is designed for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition. Media Center users can use this plug-in to select audio channels when playing VCD or DVD, can display lyrics included in WMA or MP3 music files, can remove...

17 October 2005, 12:01 > More matches in Downloads

Fear and Loathing: Media Center PCs

Crave Media Center PCs are supposed to replace your home entertainment system. While a recently born child could easily plug in a video recorder (and many do), it took two experts hours to get one of Crave's Media Center demo units to display video on a...

Tags: recorder, entertainment, plug, media center

27 April 2005, 11:03 > More matches in Crave

Media Center selling like hot cakes

News US consumers bought more Windows Media Center-equipped PCs than the standard edition of Windows XP last month and sales of Media Center will reach 10 million by the end of March, a Microsoft executive said on Tuesday.

22 March 2006, 9:12 > More matches in News

Media Center for TomTom

Downloads Media Center software acts as a video player, and allows playback of pre-converted video files. Improved error handling while copying of videos to TomTom and removing Media player from TomTomPlayer. Better way to detect if an old version of Media...

9 October 2006, 23:16 > More matches in Downloads

Asus A33: Media Center PC with integrated hi-fi amp

Crave Its latest innovation comes in the form of a Media Center desktop with a built-in 500W amplifier. The A33 will ship with Windows Vista Home Premium, which has Media Center, but there will also be an alternative OS -- Linux plus Moxi.

Tags: asus, laptops, hdmi, media center

16 March 2007, 17:37 > More matches in Crave

Hotmail Plus Reader for Media Center

Downloads The Hotmail Plus Reader for Media Center lets you quickly check your Hotmail Plus or MSN Premium e-mail on your Media Center PC. This program is designed for use with a remote control and display on a television monitor.

2 November 2005, 1:12 > More matches in Downloads