Re: Re: RE: Windows XP Media Center Edition Review

["BEN.MCCORMACK" <ben.mccormack@xxxxxxx>]

The value comes from the following:

If you look at the indivisual costs of the following

Tivo - =A3300
Network mp3 player - =A3200
Digital Picture Frame - =A370
DVD Player - =A3150

TOTAL =A3720

Not far off what this media PC should cost.

The Media PC should be able to do all of these and more in the future

Ben

> > Basically it seems like we are entering the age of convergence
with
> > PVR's, mp3 players etc. No longer will we have to have many boxes
to
> > perform many functions.
> Convergence is all well and good but if the converged device
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> perform the job as well as the individual devices then what is the
point?
> Windows XP Media Center is a product that has been approached the
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> way around. Microsoft have said we have Windows XP Professional, how
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> we make it handle TV/MP3/photos etc?
> What they should have done is, like they did with the Xbox, say we
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> to do build a device that does xyz, how do we do it?
> A Windows XP Media Center computer will be at least twice the price of
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> Tivo or Sky+ plus. Show me where the value in that is.
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