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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!
Josh and Richard are joined this week by Matt Paprocki to discuss the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but there's also Windows and Windows Phone news to cover.
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Our favorite Media Center add-in gets a year’s worth of beta updates, Microsoft refuses to call the new Start Button a Start Button, and If you buy a Surface RT in the month of June, you’ll get a Touch cover or Type cover with it for free!
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One might think that with all of the coverage of the Xbox One from last week that there would be no need to discuss it further. Unfortunately the internet has found plenty to get upset about, and Josh and Chris needed to weigh on it. Fortunately there were plenty of other things to cover, like Media Browser 3, Microsoft and Google [amazingly] working together, a .NET-based Smartwatch, and much more.
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The moment we've all been waiting for has finally arrived. Microsoft lifted the curtain from their new entertainment console. It's called the Xbox One, and Microsoft revealed a lot of information on the new console, new controller, new Kinect, and a plethora of new features. As if all the Xbox information weren't enough to pack a show there were multiple emails and voicemails to cover beforehand.
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Ceton unexpectedly releases a new 6-tuner network tuning device for Windows Media Center; Windows 8.1 is coming, and it’ going to be free; and a new Xbox is right around the corner and it’s...well, we don’t definitively know what it’s going to be, but we have some ideas about what we’d like it to be!
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The Extras Gallery is mysteriously missing from Richard's recent install of the Windows 8 Media Center Pack, the popular media picks up on pending changes in Windows 8, and new entertainment apps hit the Windows Phone Store.
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Media Center really can stay on top of other Windows in Windows 8; the next Xbox looks more and more real, now with an official announcement date and all; and T-Mobile debuts the new Nokia Lumia 510 on the Home Shopping Network. And as if Richard wasn't busy enough he has a new Windows tablet and Windows Phone to play with!
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Another Windows build leak promises new startup options for Windows 8.1, but don’t get too excited yet. UltraViolet finally hits RT and Windows 8 devices through Paramount and Flixter, and Curtis Gray, the creator of the tubeCore Media Center add-in, joins us for some candid discussion about developing for Windows Media Center and tubeCore’s evolving relationship with the makers of companion product PlayOn.
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The next version of the Xbox dominates the news while rumors suggest that Microsoft may actually bring the Start button back to Windows. They might not have plans to release a "Surface" Phone after all, and large cable providers begin encrypting the digital basic tier.
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Nokia may be releasing a flagship phone on Verizon phone, Xbox v.Next rumors abound, and Aereo is trying to change the way we receive network television.
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The next version of Windows has a name, but it probably doesn't have an upgraded version of Windows Media Center. There are new games coming to Windows, and new hacks to enable PlayTo on non-certified devices. Is streaming obviating the need for massive movie collections?
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Windows 8 and Windows Phone get a bunch of app updates—some good, some bad, T-Mobile makes it cheaper to get a Windows Phone while attempting to turn the wireless industry on its head, and, a leaked Windows Blue build gives a sneak peak at what the next version of Windows 8 might hold for users.
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