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Media Center Quick Tip – Using Your HTPC as a Play To Target

Media Center does not support the Play To functionality of Windows Media Player for some reason.  While not perfect, you can ease the lack of integration by launching Windows Media Player in the...

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Add Windows Media Center to Window 8 Release Preview

Technology enthusiasts may be happy to learn that Microsoft unveiled the Windows 8 Release Preview on Thursday, May 31, beating its own early June target. But if you’re a home theater enthusiast, you...

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Microsoft Announces Windows 8 Upgrade Under $40

Microsoft today announced the price for current Windows users to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro, and the news is rather startling. If you’re a current Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 user, you will...

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Ripping DVDs for Windows Media Center

We’ve been through, what seems like, about 497 million different options for ripping a DVD collection for use in a home theater PC.  DVDs are one form of media that we thought this community had really...

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Ceton Announces “Echo” Beta Program, Pricing, and Availability

The Ceton “Echo” hardware preview, as seen at CES 2012 Ceton today notified about 1,000 applicants of their acceptance into the beta program for the “Echo” Media Center Extender. Ceton first announced...

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DMZ Counterpoint: Upgrade Your HTPC to Window 8?

Windows 8 is decidedly less optimized for use as a home theater PC operating system. Windows Media Center is still there, but it and the OS itself don’t seem to be as carefully designed to support the...

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Recorded TV HD Half Price on Black Friday

One of our favorite Media Center add-ins, Recorded TV HD, is available for half price on Black Friday. That’s just $10 for a single license and $15 for a family (multiple device) license. If you’re not...

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Using the WiiU Gamepad to control WMC!

If you were as lucky as me to actually get a Nintendo WiiU when it launched last Sunday then there is a treat for you if you happen to use WMC. Built into the GamePad is an IR port that can be setup to...

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HDHomeRun Prime To Bring CableCARD to PS3, Other DLNA Devices

SiliconDust, makers of the HDHomeRun line of network tuners, has recently announced that it is certifying its network CableCARD tuner, the HDHomeRun Prime, as a DLNA Digital Media Server. In...

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Is CinemaNow Gone from Window Media Center?

Remember this tile in Windows Media Center’s Extras Gallery? For a long time CinemaNow was the only on-demand movie service available in Media Center, but we didn’t know of many people who actually...

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Mac mini + Blu-ray = HTPC Heaven, Courtesy of Newer Technology

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Newer Technology, the product arm of Other World Computing—the singular source for Mac peripherals and upgrade components—is expected to soon release an external...

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Windows Update Fixes Low Quality Video Issues with Windows 8 Media Center...

One of the major complaints many users have had after upgrading their Windows Media Center PCs to Widows 8 is that the video playback quality when using an Xbox 360 as a Media Center Extender has...

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Ceton Companion on Windows 8 and Renamed to My Media Center

We’ve been big fans of the Ceton Companion apps since they first launched. In fact, the for the last two years they’ve received “best of” awards from us during our year-end wrap-up shows. Perhaps what...

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Time Running Out to Install Windows 8 Media Center for Free (Poll)

In case you haven’t noticed, time is running out on all of Microsoft’s promotions surrounding Windows 8. There is one detail that deserves being mentioned again though. Those free product keys for...

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Media Center Quick Tip – View Your iCloud Photo Stream in Media Center

You may remember an earlier tip where we showed you how to sync your Windows Phone Camera Roll on SkyDrive with Media Center. Now we’re going to do the same with Apple’s Photo Stream. In iOS 5, Apple...

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Announcing My Memories for Windows Media Center

Do you recognize the name MJT Software? You should. They make one of our favorite Windows Media Center plugins: Recorded TV HD. Well, that same developer is back with another great Media Center...

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Media Center Quick Tip – Disabling Channels in your Guide

Nearly every good Windows Media Center geek knows about how to hide channels from the guide in bulk: Go to Settings, choose TV, Guide, then Edit Channels. What a lot of people don’t realize or remember...

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Ceton Introduces InfiniTV 6 ETH – 6 Tuner Network CableCARD Device

Ceton started the week off with a bombshell announcement. They have launched their brand new InfiniTV 6 ETH. Yes, they’ve launched, not announced, it. It’s available now from Amazon and other retailers...

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Using Pandora on an HTPC (Updated)

  Pandora recently released a brand new HTML5 10-foot interface targeted at the Xbox 360.  HTML5 works everywhere, right?  Surely it it would work on any PC including Windows Media Center PCs…. Guess...

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Ceton Announces “Echo” Beta Program, Pricing, and Availability

The Ceton “Echo” hardware preview, as seen at CES 2012 Ceton today notified about 1,000 applicants of their acceptance into the beta program for the “Echo” Media Center Extender. Ceton first announced...

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