RE: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 - UK Launch

["Kenneth Watt" <kwatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Good thread, keep it up!

Just don't moderate my ass! :D

> Ah, there we go.  I rest my case :)

An still not a TV or pure "display" device in sight. ;)

> MCE is a different animal though.  It's not for playing MP3s in the
> Kitchen
> or Bedroom.  It's meant to be the focus of entertainment in the living
> room.
> You sit down to watch it.

True, but then why watch that when there are easier things to use and
setup?

> Mass market maybe, but people in that mass market that are
"into" AV and
> Tech, even though they may not be the most technically minded.

Which is where I can see it failing as when you go into people's homes as I
do on occasion outwith the people I know, you find a lot of people that
still have only a TV and a VCR, they may even have a DVD player.

> Outputting a TV image ;)   I honestly can't fault the output of the
xbox.

I didn't say it was bad, just that it's not the best IMO.

> I can't remember the last time I used mine to watch a DVD.  Those
little
> disks are so 90s ;)  Streaming is the future.

Maybe, eventually. But in reality how many people are actually doing this
in
the countless millions of homes in the UK.

We often forget on here that we are the cutting edge and a vocal but small
group when taken as representative of the population as a whole and most
people couldn't be bothered with that nonsense.

> Yes, so lets not start calling it "flakey" without any
personal experience
> of it ;)

It's a PC, its MS... really. ;)

> It's not like I don't get enough hassle lready from the MS hater on
the
> #UKHA IRC channel!

Which one, there's loads to choose form there? ;)

K.