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



Quoting Gerard McGovern <stuff@xxxxxxx>:
> Anyone want to take a sportman's bet with me that the XP Media Centre
> will NOT be as popular as Microsoft seem to think it will?

You're probably right Gerard - though the MS philosophy seems to be "If at
first it doesn't succeed, hammer away for another couple of years until we get
it right/we have killed the competition"....

I don't see the point in it myself - I wouldn't want a bloody great PC in my
lounge like that Dell thing for one - and if I've got a PC then I want to use
it for other things like games, software development etc.
If the PVR stuff robs 20% of the processor, that's gonna impact on these or
vice versa, so I either get p*ss poor performance from these applications, or
the video stutters and I get a rubbish recording......

I'm all for making consumer devices smarter, but having one big PC do it all is
_not_ the answer IMO.

Now if they added this functionality to the xbox, it would make a lot more
sense....

--
Tony
PS: How can a 2.somethingGhz P4 stutter when browsing the guide data when a
lowly 57Mhz 486 in a TiVo can cope? :-(

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