Microsoft SideShow: not just for laptops anymore
By Ryan Block 
posted Mar 30th 2006 9:41AM
posted Mar 30th 2006 9:41AM
As stoked as we are about getting SideShow for our laptops -- even
despite the fact that it'll add a little extra girth to our lappies' bodies -- when we found out from CE Pro that at
the Media Center Boot Camp at EHX this week, Microsoft showed off a SideShow dev kit for Media Center remotes (and any
other small device you might want to have a screen), well, that about did us in. Microsoft expects SideShow-enabled
Media Center remotes, which have user-installable "gadgets" (small XML-driven widgets for different
purposes), should be available for about $150-$200. That ain't too bad, but unfortunately they're not bundling
touchscreen support, so you're gonna have to find another smart remote solution if that's what you're looking for in
your next media controller.
hope this work better than vista...
Phelipe - ""hope this work better than vista...""
Hahahahaa how original!
Idiot.
That's pretty cool. I wouldn't mind buying a few more extenders for my place, but I fear that none of this stuff is going to work with Vista.
Awesome! Hopefully this will give us something like Sonos' wonderful remote. It would be perfect for controlling MCE boxes' music with your TV/Monitor turned off.
The real product is called "DinnerOut," can't wait for that one.... anyone?
Sideshow is a feature of Vista. From the loks of it, it's fairly trivial to write sideshow widgets, so writing something for MCE Alternatives should be fairly trivial.
No touchscreen? No thanks...
yeah well hafto see what Tom Bishop says about this one.
this was a feature of OS X Lion for years now... how unoriginal . 8
Good one M$. It's silver and has buttons, you've gone and ripped Apple off yet again!
I think this remote bears a somewhat generic image and feeling of the iPod look, and perhaps that is where we are headed, towards a new family of devices that we may carry around with us and which we may place in our pockets and roam or perhaps control a media hub as well.
Many perhaps tend to see remotes as limited devices, limited control flickers, rather than mobile hubs or roamable wireless devices in their own right and may be even appliances at the same time. Think of the way the mobile phone has developed with convergent technologies and multi functional options. JJ Mini Ture_MacJournal
I don't know you you kids all remembered the walkman and all the gadgets that spawned from that. Its not just iPods that are silver and have buttons. Pretty much every portable device in the world works by that concept, remember the PDA? lol.
Touchscreen for something that lives in your pocket isn't so bad after all. How many times has your mobile phone called emergency services without your knowledge?