last100.com— I use it everyday and it's freakin free, while others use Tivo and pay, this is where I start to laugh to hard to type anymore...
Aug 23, 2007View in Crawl 4
My biggest complaint with Media Center (at least the one I have from HP) is that it doesn't want to do straight pass-through video - taking whatever comes in on a video input and passing it through to the screen.Instead it records it and plays it back five seconds later. This can be cool - it gives you the ability to pause *live* TV, as it keeps recording while you pause. The downside is that you also get the delay when you connect an XBox, Apple ][, or whatever. A five second delay really throws off my Halo score.
Though, yes, I'm suspicious about the article, I'd expect all the Linux and Mac users to jump all over a pro-Microsoft article and call it spam, or whatever. The article author Mack D. Male has several pro-Microsoft articles on the web.Regardless, I still like my MCE2005. I have dual tuners, a nice video card, and a 2.2TB RAID 5 system full of movies (over 500). The My Movies 2 plugin written by Brian Binnerup makes MCE a great entertainment system. Anyone who comes over and sees my setup is very impressed.
Let's not forget that many laptops (by HP, Toshiba) etc, were sold by default with XP Media Center edition starting in 2005. (I believe there were even incentives offered by Microsoft to OEMs to ship with MCE rather than Home)Sure, a lot of people bought hardware with MCE in it, but it wasn't necessarily by choice and it doesn't mean they are using it. Don't get me wrong, I think MCE is awesome, but I'd like to see hard numbers on actual usage of MCE....
Wow, that is really going to suck. I was thinking of replacing my media center 2005 with a mythtv rig. But monthly service charge for guides = suxor!!!
rogerstrongAug 23, 2007
My biggest complaint with Media Center (at least the one I have from HP) is that it doesn't want to do straight pass-through video - taking whatever comes in on a video input and passing it through to the screen.Instead it records it and plays it back five seconds later. This can be cool - it gives you the ability to pause *live* TV, as it keeps recording while you pause. The downside is that you also get the delay when you connect an XBox, Apple ][, or whatever. A five second delay really throws off my Halo score.
jonjonr6Aug 24, 2007
Though, yes, I'm suspicious about the article, I'd expect all the Linux and Mac users to jump all over a pro-Microsoft article and call it spam, or whatever. The article author Mack D. Male has several pro-Microsoft articles on the web.Regardless, I still like my MCE2005. I have dual tuners, a nice video card, and a 2.2TB RAID 5 system full of movies (over 500). The My Movies 2 plugin written by Brian Binnerup makes MCE a great entertainment system. Anyone who comes over and sees my setup is very impressed.
rizzleAug 24, 2007
Let's not forget that many laptops (by HP, Toshiba) etc, were sold by default with XP Media Center edition starting in 2005. (I believe there were even incentives offered by Microsoft to OEMs to ship with MCE rather than Home)Sure, a lot of people bought hardware with MCE in it, but it wasn't necessarily by choice and it doesn't mean they are using it. Don't get me wrong, I think MCE is awesome, but I'd like to see hard numbers on actual usage of MCE....
execute85Aug 24, 2007
Wow, that is really going to suck. I was thinking of replacing my media center 2005 with a mythtv rig. But monthly service charge for guides = suxor!!!
evermoresAug 24, 2007
exactly what i said basically :P