I could be wrong, but even then, I like to go cheaper than that… the plan Now there have been Media Center Extenders for Xbox (not 360) but as far as I know, they only exist for the American (NTSC)-market and not for Europe (PAL) (where I live). This is all brilliant and such, but I’m not gonna buy a Xbox 360 just for that. On MCE you have the possibility to put extenders in other rooms in your home, to be able to view the content on your Media Center in the living room. So, this is the only Windows-machine in my home and I like it that way.īut, back to the subject. Well, it does have it’s advantages, it doubles as my only Windows-testmachine by the means of remote desktop (this also works from my iBook by the way). So… even though you probably would expect something else from a guy like me, Media Center it is, in my livingroom. I’m way too fond of my Soundstorm to step back to two channels… ^_^ Now I promised myself to jump onto an open-source PVR-bandwagon as soon as I could but one of the things that prevents me from doing that is the linux-support for Soundstorm, or better, the lack there of. Now of course, we’re heading quite quick to a world where all the TV we’ll be watching will be online and not through a tuner or such so the lack of TV-tuners in Front Row will be easily solved, through time that is… Anyway, when ‘normal’ TV is one of the features you need, there’s Windows Media Center and probably MythTV or other open-source projects. There’s tons of other solutions of course like Mac’s Front Row, but that one doesn’t include TV. And credit where credit’s due, it’s quite a solid solution and probably still the most feature-packed out-of-the-box livingroom-setup you can have. Since around two years there’s Windows Media Center 2005 and (mainly because I had to get to grips with it because of my dayjob) I’ve got such a setup since April 2004. or extension is more appropriate I guess, since there’s no active component in our über-budget solution.įirst things first. 20 November 2006, 02:07 by mark hoekstra DIY Media Center extender
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