Entertainment 2.0 #164 : I’m Not Supposed to Watch These!

Feb 3, 2012 by

Josh and Richard tried to keep episode 164, and to get the live show started on time this week. Only one of those goals were accomplished, but that’s okay! As usual, the show was kicked off by some great listener feedback before Josh made a correction on the topic of DVD ripping from the last...

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Archiving TV with Windows Home Server 2011

Feb 1, 2012 by

When Windows Home Server 2011 was announced I was extremely excited. I participated in the beta, and I now have a dedicated 8TB Raid 10 running in my closet. Not only will WHS2011 store all of your files in the house, backup your computers, and allow you to stream your content through your browser...

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Entertainment 2.0 #163 : Super Bowl Planning and Plug-in Updates

Jan 27, 2012 by

Now that we’re all a couple of weeks out of the Consumer Electronics Show there haven’t been any new products to talk about, but many of our favorite products have been updated. Some of those updates have been good, while others were changed through external forces, and not for the...

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Ceton Discusses Its New “Q” Entertainment Platform

Jan 16, 2012 by

In our interview with Ceton, we discuss the exciting technology preview of the "Q" 6-tuner media hub, Media Center Extender, and companion apps.

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Ceton Showing Their Own Windows Media Center Extender and Set-top-box

Jan 10, 2012 by

Today, at the Consumer Electronics Show, Ceton is inviting the press to their suite to show off what they’ve been working on, and it should excite a lot of people in the Windows Media Center community! First up, they’ve decided to produce their own Windows Media Center Extender! For...

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All I Want for Christmas is Guide Data

Dec 21, 2011 by

It appears the holidays may not be so happy if you’re counting on your Windows Media Center PC to continue recording all of your favorite television shows! As we discovered while trying to manually add a recording (see screenshot) and confirmed via Microsoft Connect, there is something...

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Remove TotalMedia Theatre DVD Prompt in Media Center

Dec 15, 2011 by

This registry hack will eliminate the annoying prompt that TotalMedia Theatre displays every time you try to play a DVD in Windows Media Center.

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Media Center Quick Tip – Starting Media Center from the Xbox Dashboard...

Dec 12, 2011 by

The Fall 2011 update for the Xbox 360 brings a great new Metro-style UI to the Xbox dashboard, but where did Media Center go? You can still use your Xbox as an extender, you just have to dig a little to find it.

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Media Center Quick Tip – Enable Media Only Mode

Nov 17, 2011 by

Hide the standard window control buttons from Windows Media Center by enabling Media Only mode.

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Netflix Black Screen Fix

Oct 13, 2011 by

It appears that many people are experiencing a problem of late with Netflix inside of Windows Media Center. If you let a streaming video complete it will leave you stuck on an empty black screen. It used to return the user to the Netflix UI displaying the details of the video that was just watched....

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Poll: Will Windows Media Center be Discussed During the Build Keynote?

Sep 13, 2011 by

Microsoft’s Build Conference get’s kicked off in about 90 minutes, and they keep saying that “all will be revealed” with regards to Windows 8. We already know that Windows 8 will include Windows Media Center, but do we think they’ll talk about it all during the...

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Entertainment 2.0 #143 : Windows 8 Media Center Still Alive

Sep 9, 2011 by

After a couple of weeks of long episodes Entertainment 2.0 episode 143 was actually recorded in a more reasonable amount of time! Josh Pollard was joined by Richard Gunther and Craig Scholle. After reading a couple of great emails the trio jumped into the biggest news of the week, perhaps some of...

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