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Entertainment 2.0 is your weekly guide to all of the latest Windows Media Center news. Hosted by Josh Pollard and Richard Gunther, and streamed live each Tuesday night at 8pm Eastern. Entertainment 2.0 covers news, usage, modification, and 3rd party apps. With special guests from the Media Center community as well as 3rd party app developers, it’s hard to find more MCE news than with Entertainment 2.0!
As much as we hate missing a show, some times it happens, and sometimes news doesn't. On the bright side, we will be back next week with 100% less Josh! It won't just be the Richard show though. Chris Barnes, from thEndUsr podcast will be joining Richard to get you caught up on all the latest Microsoft entertainment technology news.
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Microsoft has been filling the newswires with a plethora of information about Windows Media Center in Windows 8. How much of it helped to clarify the situation, and how much of it just made matters more confusing? Josh and Richard attempt to clear all of these issues up for listeners, and then move on to discuss HBO GO within Media Center, a new SkyDrive app for iOS, a new Windows Phone from Samsung, and update on Richard's Windows Phone experiment. Richard wrapped up the show with another Media Center quick tip. This time the tip describes a faster way to find your protected recorded TV files.
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The industry speculates about Microsoft’s next music service plans, expected to be unveiled this year at E3. But the big story for us is about Ceton’s beta announcements earlier this week. We talk with our old friend James Montemagno—now working with Ceton—about the pending Companion App and Extender beta releases.
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Microsoft tweets the Windows 8 Release Preview timing, remains stealthy about guide data update problems, and completely misses the mark with its official Skype release for Windows Phone. Meanwhile, SkyDrive brings a surprising amount of free storage to the table, and we talk with Mike Faucher about Intel's new Ivy Bridge processor line.
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Windows 8 SKU news leads to speculation about Windows Media Center pricing. Windows Phone 8 speculation leads to news about upgrade support and OEM differentiation. Nokia makes good on a Lumia connectivity glitch, and Richard goes on a rant about why OEMs keep throwing hurdles in their own way to release Media Center boxes.
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Nokia's new flagship Lumia 900 debuts in hundreds of closed AT&T stores on Easter Sunday, and it gets mixed reviews—but we still love it. More and more households are drawing video content from the Internet, and meanwhile, your cable bill is probably going through the roof!
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This week on Entertainment 2.0 we're joined by DMZ writer Jon Deutsch who is incredibly optimistic about the future of Media Center. We may also finally have an alternative to the now-defunct Media Center Studio, and Richard took part in, and lost, the Windows Phone Challenge, so he's getting a Windows Phone!
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Microsoft's stealthy Windows Media Center Team posts some FAQs, HBO GO, Xfinity, and iPlayer apps appear on the Xbox 360 while Microsoft reports that its Xbox LIVE service is used more now for entertainment than for gaming, and Richard may be toting a new Windows Phone before next week's show.
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Comskip now supports WTV Files, Apple and Dish release home media products, and we ponder the perfect home theater remote control with new DMZ contributor Ben Wade. Here's a hint: it doesn't exist yet.
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We hate missing a show, but this week there were just too many obstacles. Tricky travel (which always leads to terrible internet connections) and sick family members left Josh and Richard unable to record this week. Don’t worry though, because they will be back next week! Make sure to mark...
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The moment we’ve all been waiting for since Microsoft released the Windows 8 Developer Preview finally hit! We now have the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, and we’ve had about a week to play with it. Guess what? Media Center is in there, despite all of the rumors to the contrary! We take a...
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This week on Entertainment 2.0 Josh and Richard are joined by the latest addition to the DMZ team: Chris Barnes. The three of them tried to help some listeners to start the show off. After that Josh (of course) covered the latest Windows Phone news from Mobile World Congress before getting to all...
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