Behold the MEGAREMOTE! Actually, roll onto it, because you can't hold it: It's made with two flexible Dance Dance Revolution mats for the PlayStation 2, hacked to control Windows Media Center with......

The kids got a new computer for Christmas. Before that, Ryan was using a really old laptop that I had sitting around. It wasn’t good for much other than some flash games on the web. So, for Christmas Lori’s sister got them a computer. The first thing that Ryan wanted to do with his recen...

Filed under: Reviews, DVRs, Media PCs, Media streamers, Samsung One of the reasons why Microsoft's Media Center is so attractive is because of the extender functionality. It allows you to enjoy just about all the same content in every room of your house, without the need to buy more than one HTPC. B...

I was recently chatting with Jyle Dupuis who blogs over at Xboxxer.com about how he’s using the Media Center Extender on his Xbox 360 to stream music and movies right out to his living room. This is something I’ve been wanting to do, but just haven’t had the energy or enough desire...

The Digital Lifestyle blog recently pointed us to a post that explained how you could sync recorded TV on your DVR with your Windows Mobile device. This is something that no other smartphones are capable of doing, notes Adam Lein of pocketnow.com. Instead of buying expensive videos and TV programs, ...

If you are attending the 2008 Professional Developers Conference you received a pre-beta Windows 7 build today (6801) which contains many features the Windows Media Center team has been developing over the past year. It’s my pleasure to take a few minutes to outline some of these new features for ...

I guess you could say 'I'm back' with this post. Of course, I've probably chosen one of the most polarizing and passionate issues I've every seen in the community. Hopefully this helps put some context around the various discussions and helps you see we take great care to deliver the right features ...

Want to know more about Windows Media Center programming? You might be interested in checking out Steven Harding’s new book that he’s working on called “Programming with Media Center.”  The book isn’t finished yet so you can download the PDF and check it out in&nbs...

Windows Media Center really is quite a decent application to use for media management and Microsoft doesn’t get enough credit for the steps it’s taken to establish the PC as the home entertainment hub. One of the lesser known features of WMC is that quite a large number of third party plugins ar...

I was impressed with Windows Media Center from the very first time I tried it. However when we got our first Media Center PC a number of years ago, it was quite a trying experience getting it all set up. Getting the PC to talk to the cable set top box through the "IR Blaster", getting a decent quali...