Re: Family Friendly Media PC

["wayne" <wayne@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,
yeah - heard of that, although from what I can remember I dont think you
can
just buy the OS, MS have gone through the pain of selling it only direct to
manufacturers that qualify to thier hardware standards (with respect to tv
cards and the like) (not like thats a /real/ problem if you get my drift)
but

1/ is Microsoft - do you want to aid there invation further :)
2/ if you want to play other format files that media player doesnt do, can
it do that?
3/ from an expantion point, would it be possible to do 'non microsoft'
tasks

I guess its too early to say as its not on release over here but...

Wayne.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alistair Watkins" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:40 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Family Friendly Media PC


> have you seen windows XP media centre? www.Microsoft.com/ehome
>
> I know its not publicly available in the UK, but you may be able to
get a
> copy from somewhere?
>
> ali :)
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: wayne [mailto:wayne@xxxxxxx]
>   Sent: 16 July 2003 21:09
>   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>   Subject: [ukha_d] Family Friendly Media PC
>
>
>   Hiya all
>   Just a little thing to think about while your sunbathing in the
garden
> replying to this over your wifi connection :)
>
>   Having just managed to get my TV out to work on my pc (new nVidia
drivers
> if anyone's got one :) one thing is blazingly obvious, what to use as
an
> 'interface' to the media playing functions on the pc.
>
>   If any of you have tried using windows on a telly you will soon
realise
> that the resolution, while ample for films played full screen, is a
bit
> rubbish for normal window operations - menu navigation and all. More
to
it -
> when the family doesnt have an interest on pc's at all - how the hell
do
you
> get them to use a mouse and click all over the place, let alown read
the
> screen.
>
>   Therefor - what would be the best way to control such. Idealy you
need
big
> bold text displays/ menus - including file / title browsing for your
media
> (mp3's avi's etc) and somthing that is, shall we say SWMBO friendly to
use,
> and idealy with a remote controller rather than a keyboard. Also the
> 'interface' would need to support the ability to fire off the relavent
> programs for the media being played (maybe winamp for mp3's, zoom
player
for
> videos / dvd's the like) and if possible custom web pages to spy on
your
> MV1000 :) - Text overlays etc? the list is endless...
>
>   I guess you get the idea - is this goal reachable?
>   Point me in the right direction!
>
>   Thanks
>   Wayne.
>
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