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HP expands digital-entertainment range

News On select models, the dv8000 series will offer an edition of Microsoft Windows XP Media Center, which is designed to allow users to watch, record and pause live TV, as well as edit and share digital content.

5 January 2006, 8:30

Microsoft updates Longhorn roadmap

News Allchin also listed a number of the desktop and portable OS projects on tap for this year and next -- reiterating that this year, the company will ship its portable Windows Media Center devices, as well as an update to Windows Media Player and MSN...

5 May 2004, 12:00

Next Windows to turbo charge notebooks

News On the media front, Microsoft is looking at ways that all Longhorn laptops could take TV shows and other files off of a Media Center PC. That idea is just one of many ways the Microsoft is trying to make Media Center content more portable.

6 May 2004, 8:25

Intel's Viiv low on Christmas lists

News But according to Current Analysis, only 13 per cent of PCs with Microsoft's Windows Media Center Edition -- a component of the Viiv platform -- are sold at US retail with even a single TV tuner, let alone dual tuners that allow people to record...

15 December 2006, 10:46

Can Longhorn improve laptops?

News Kay noted that Microsoft has seen a significant increase in sales of Windows XP Media Center Edition since it cut the price premium on that product last autumn. Today, for example, consumers can buy a laptop that has either the pen-based abilities...

3 May 2005, 8:53

Tech giants focus on TV

News It also sells its Media Center operating system to allow users to display pictures, play music, watch videos or record television shows on their PCs. As part of a recent update to its Media Center, Microsoft has added the capability to stream...

24 November 2005, 9:38

Apple bloggers hot on iMac, cool on iPod

News Front row - interesting to see the imac take center-stage as apple's media center where everyone expected the mac mini to take on this roll six months ago. Kinda bold to create a living room media hub without integrated tv-tuner - either they're...

13 October 2005, 9:18

Microsoft sells 20 million copies of Vista

News The company eventually added the Tablet PC and Media Center editions, and over time, Media Center became the dominant version on retail shelves. Microsoft claims Windows Vista is off to a fast start, having sold more than 20 million copies since...

27 March 2007, 9:15

Microsoft signs cable deal for HDTV support

News The pact, with the industry's technical arm, CableLabs, means that PCs with Microsoft's Media Center features will be able to display digital cable -- both standard and high-definition flavours -- without a set-top box.

17 November 2005, 8:58

Sky to offer video-on-demand to Media Centers

News In his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Gates said the pair are to team up to offer video-on-demand to Microsoft Media Center users. Microsoft head honcho Bill Gates has revealed the software giant is getting into...

5 January 2006, 14:44

Bringing more TV to the video iPod

News We were just fans of the Media Center," said Andreas Benamou, chief technology officer at Proxure. So, increasingly, the Cincinnati-based anaesthesiologist has been turning to a little-known program called MyTV ToGo, which lets him take shows...

15 December 2005, 10:00

Microsoft Canada leaks Vista prices

News The Home Premium version, which includes support for Media Center and tablet PC abilities will sell for 13 per cent more, a price that translates to about £140. Microsoft has yet to publicly announce its pricing plans, but has said that they will...

29 August 2006, 7:55

News.blog: Zune won't work with Vista

News But there is absolutely no way Microsoft would allow the Zune to work only with Windows XP SP2 and Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Rollup 2, I said. I had heard the Windows Media Player DRM and the Zune DRM were not going to be compatible.

15 November 2006, 11:25

Photos: HP's new HD DVD gear

News Along with the new laptop, HP added a new PC running Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition to its lineup on Thursday. So HP plans to offer its customers a Media Vault in time for the holiday season that can store up to 1.2 terabytes of data...

29 September 2006, 10:07

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