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| Topic: | windows media center pc This thread has 4 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Wednesday October 26, 2005 at 20:02 |
ceied Loyal Member |
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ok maybe someone an help.
one of my customers asked about windows media center and using it with his home theater and whole house sound........
confusion is what does it do that a normal pc cant? and some are actually receivers that require an amplifier....
my suggestion was that with high quality audio video the only thing he would be is dissapointed. when you have a good multiroom sound why run compressed music!
best to use noncompressed music and a real dvd player with a normal xp computer to surf web on the 110" projo as seperate inputs.
or is media center a diamond in the rough!
thanks
ed
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| Post 2 made on Wednesday October 26, 2005 at 20:56 |
brandenpro Select Member |
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The only thing it does "extra" is record TV if you have a capture card. I prefer Media Portal. Its free http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/. MythTV is also free http://www.mythtv.org/. Look for the Knoppix Myth version if you dont know how to do a linux install. MythTV set up correctly is pretty sweet.
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| Post 3 made on Wednesday October 26, 2005 at 21:44 |
Springs Super Member |
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Real rough! Unless you want to do the regular maintainance and deal with the crashes...
Lets just say I have yet to see one work 100% for more than a minute or 2. Most of the units I have seen eaither didn't work at all or had serious short commings.
My MythTV box is a constant work in progress. Would I trust it in the wild? Not yet.
Would I want to deal with the constant calls for media center issues? Hell no!
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| Post 4 made on Thursday October 27, 2005 at 00:51 |
RTI Installer Super Member |
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Media PC + whole home audio, very unfriendly, unless you can afford streaming video touch screens throughout your house to control it, since it is completely visually oriented (no discrete commands) you have to actually see what it is doing before you can even select a stupid song or play list and if that’s not bad enough the darn thing is always popping up dialog boxes that you have to close before you can do anything else. Plus it uses toggle bit commands arrrg for all of its IR functions.
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| Post 5 made on Thursday October 27, 2005 at 02:45 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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My main PC is now running MCE 2005 and the stability seems fine, but a lot of that has to do with what hardware you're running. Cheap or oddball components = stability problems.
All Media Center Edition is is basically a super-deluxe version of Media Player stuck on top of XP Pro. If you never fire up the MCE program you'd never know it was anything but a vanilla PC.
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