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Entertainment 2.0 has made it to episode 120. Unfortunately Josh was without both James and Craig this week. He was joined by a special guest though, so you don’t have to just listen to him for an hour! This week Josh talked with Windows Media Center enthusiasts Jason Null (yes, his last...
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Once again on Entertainment 2.0 Josh is joined by James, and Craig. After holding off on listener emails and voicemails for the last two weeks we had a little bit of a back log to get through. They were filled with great questions. Some of the questions we were able to answer, but as always if you...
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There are many methods for getting content from optical discs into Media Center. Some are more complicated than others, some are more reliable. There’s even been previous posts on this site about this same topic. This is a story about my attempts, and what I found worked and didn’t...
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Even though I promised not to bring it up, Josh forced the issue and we end up spending part of this week’s show talking about Apple’s latest device, the iPad. While neither Josh nor I can personally see a lot of use for the device when compared to your standard netbook, some people seem to...
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Windows 7 was a big step forward for acceptance of certain codecs and containers by Microsoft. Prior to the release, Media Center users had a lot of issues getting their movie files to play on extenders. Even AVI wasn’t supported within the extender UI basically locking you down to some very...
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If BD, wifi (wireless N), netflix, divx and MKV support wasn’t enough for you LG and Vudu have just announced today at the Cedia Expo that the BD 390 will, later this month, get the native VUDU interface. No longer will you have to purchase a stand alone piece of hardware destine for only a...
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We brought you the news back in June when DivX had first announced their tech preview that brings MKV playback support to Windows 7 via Media Foundation. The great thing about the tech preview is that because it is using Media Foundation it also allows playback of MKV files on Media Center...
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Those of use who use Media Center in our homes as more than just a DVR have this love/hate thing going on. On the one hand, we love Media Center. The interface, the functionality, the DVR capabilities, all of it. We also hate the fact that Microsoft has, so far, decided that extenders should...
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Many people who use Media Center are also techno buffs. As such, most of us know about codecs, containers and the whatnot. What we don’t often get to hear about is the development and future of different aspects of the industry. Davis Freeberg of ZatzNotFunny recently had a chance to speak...
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The story broke a little while back that Divx was releasing a tech preview to provide support for MKVs within Windows 7. The great part about this news was that not only would it provide support on your PC itself but because the preview introduced support for Media Foundation, this opened up...
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