Windows Home Theater

From: The Green Button

New Module Makes Power Monitoring and Control Within Reach of all Homeowners
Surrey, BC – August 20, 2008
Today, Embedded Automation announced its mHome Power Management Module. The
mHome Power Management Module, which provides real-time energy usage
information and control functionality, is available as an add-in to Embedded
Automation’s mHome products, including the award-winning mControl Digital [...]

From: The Green Button

Listen Here (mp3)
This week I am talking to Scott Scott Bahneman, CEO of MusicGiants about their HD audio and video services that can deliver high quality music and videos directly in to Windows Media Center. As more of us connect Media Center up to AV Receivers having a source of high quality [...]

From: The Green Button

With the new features of the 2008 TV Pack, I couldn’t resist buying a new media center from a cutting edge OEM like S1Digital who was the first to ship systems with the new update, and according to Paul I was the first to get one.  I plan on writing (at least) [...]

From: The Green Button

Listen Here (mp3)
Looks like I forgot to post the latest show on this blog! So here it is and it’s a good one
Last week Microsoft released details on the Windows Media Center TV Feature Pack (the update formally known as Fiji) and that provoked a passionate debate around the limited (OEM [...]

From: The Green Button

Hanover MA, Aug 13,
2008, Inteset, has updated its Movie Collection server module to fully support
Blu-ray movies. 
One of the major selling features of the Inteset media
server has been its ability to store, search, and play back movies seamlessly
within the Windows Media Center interface using the proprietary Movie
Collection module. Inteset has offered this feature [...]

From: The Green Button

Circuit
City has the Linksys DMA2100 Extenders on sale for only $150 (Via Missing
Remote).  If you are in the market
for a Media Center Extender then I would check your local store to see if they
have any in-stock.
According to Circuit City’s website they are sold out
online, so your local store might be the [...]

From: The Green Button

Long time MissingRemote readers will remember the 7th Life With a Plugin episode covering Remote Recordings in Media Center, which covered the only two options for remote scheduling shows: Webguide4 and MSN’s Remote Record.

Remote Record has always seemed to play second fiddle to Webguide,
simply due to it’s lack of features. But [...]

From: The Green Button

Houston, Texas -
August 15, 2008 – Media Center PC innovator and Microsoft OEM Partner,
Cannon PC, announced that it will begin shipping the Microsoft Windows Media
Center TV Pack with its line for Media Center PCs.
Cannon PC will begin shipping systems with the new TV Pack
beginning in early September.  The Microsoft
Windows Media Center TV [...]

From: The Green Button

Disneyland–the happiest place on earth–and the home of some of the
most cutting edge in technology for the home? Apparantly so! I recently
was invited to tour the brand new attraction located in the
Tomorrowland of California’s Disneyland Theme Park.

Take this as more of an opinionated tour guide, hopefully with some
pictures that give you an [...]

From: The Green Button

New
home automation company QWebL has been holding a contest on YouTube for video entries
on your frustrations with remote controls and/or your dream feature in a home
automation system.  The videos can be
funny, serious or anything in-between and while there hasn’t been quite the
number of entries I thought there might be considering the few [...]