It’s the week of ghosts and goblins and while you and your kids are pigging out on candy this weekend, take a listen to the latest Entertainment 2.0.  If nothing else, hearing our voices should be enough to scare kids away from your house tomorrow night.
This week Josh and Adam are dressed up as Media Center enthusiasts who are wondering where their content is going to come from in the next 10 years.  Will we even need TV tuners in that time?  Let us know what you think!
Not much …

Talk turns to gaming for part of episode nine of Seen in HD. Recent news that the PS3 will be getting Netflix support and the Xbox won’t be getting Blu-ray support gives Adam and Phil a chance to talk HD gaming and the future of consoles. One thing we forgot to mention in the show was that the PS3 Netflix streaming requires the use of a special Blu-ray disc to access the video.
On the bargain front, Best Buy lobs the first shot in the holiday shopping season battle, offering up …

It looks like that exclusivity deal that Microsoft was touting a month or so ago wasn’t for that long of a period.  Sony today put out a press release detailing the fact that the service is coming to the PS3.  It will be provided though a free Blu-ray disk that will be made available to all Netflix subscribers.  Simply visit Netflix and request your disk.
The question now becomes whether or not Microsoft will continue to require users to pay $50 a year to access the service.  This is a …

I woke up this morning on a mission.  To get my HTPC upgraded to the RTM of Windows 7.  Once the reinstallation was complete, what to my wondering eyes did appear but a Netflix logo sitting on the Movies strip of my Media Center main menu!
It seems that MS has come through and right before the retail release of Windows 7 has gotten Netflix support worked in.  The downside?  It’s not showing up on my Xbox 360 extenders…
I guess this was to be expected but come on!  I get …

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 single purpose, you can now purchase hardware that not only plays back VUDU movies, but also supports a plethora of other features. Not only does this play have tons of online media and digital …

Welcome to September here on “Seen in HD”. Just a quick show note: there will be no new show for Sept. 9 (Labor Day Week) and we’ll be back with a new show the week of Sept. 14 when Brent Evans of Geek Tonic joins us for our 2009 Fall TV Season Extravaganza.
In the news on this week’s show, Adam and Phil take a look at a recent FCC ruling that could affect TV viewing on HTPCs and why some of the early furor may have been overdone. Also in …

For being the slow time of year, there sure is some great Media Center related news out there.  It’s only about one month until CEDIA kicks off and hopefully we’ll have even more to talk about then.  For now though, we get a chance to talk about some 3rd party applications as well as a new feature that’s coming to Windows 7 Media Center.
For me personally, the biggest news this week is that Show Analyzer has gone public beta.  That means that everyone can start skipping those commercials.  Just …

Well, ya had to figure that Microsoft would put it in Windows 7 eventually and while there’s no timeframe yet, Mike Ybarra was seen showing off the service during Steve Ballmer’s keynote speech at Microsoft’s Financial Analysts Meeting.
Great news for Windows 7 users to be sure but it was clouded again by the fact that you won’t be able to access the service on Media Center extenders.  Those who read here frequently or listen to Entertainment 2.0 can guess how we feel about that.  It’s a move that leaves …

 
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  The way things are going, we’ll all soon need a 16 port switches to connect all of our equipment to.
Earlier today, Sony announced that starting this fall the Bravia line of Internet connected TVs will get full access to the Netflix.  Support will also be provided to older Bravia sets that support the Internet Video Link Module.  Just like the current Xbox 360 iteration of Netflix, you won’t be able to browse through movies to add to your queue, but …

Here is yet another announcement from Microsoft today at the Electronics Entertainment Expo. Last year they announced integration with Netflix for XBOX Live Gold members. This year they announced that they are making the service even better. No longer will you only be able to watch items that you added to your queue from a computer, but you will now be able to browse the library right from the XBOX dashboard.