http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/ Engadget Comments for Next Vista Media Center leaked -- no DirecTV HD till 2010? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/And by the way, Crayon is not a german word at all...]]>Jul 6th 2008 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
I'm hoping that they're either testing DirectTV seperately as Engadget HD suggested or they have simply removed it for the RC0 release while they tinker with the code to bring it back in a later release.]]>Jul 5th 2008 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
SAve this as a .reg file....

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mkv]
"PerceivedType"="video"
"Content Type"="video/mkv"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.mkv]
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"


DONE HAPPY.]]>Jul 6th 2008 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
Do we add DONE HAPPY to the end of the .reg file?



I kid...I kid...]]>Jul 6th 2008 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
All you have to do is go into the guide setup and edit channels, it'll have BBC one (at blaMHz) and further down will have one unticked with the same name, but at the higher MHz. Just untick the first one and tick the second one, then edit the order to move it back up to 1, and you'll be fine. :)]]>Jul 5th 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 6th 2008 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 6th 2008 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/]]>Jul 5th 2008 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Apple did that on purpose so people like you think its Windows' fault, but its really Apple's. Also, look at the great setup they made for quicktime + itunes. The thing you downloaded isnt run as admin, and asks 2 or 3 times when it launches sub-setups that run as admin so it bugs you with UAC multiple times instead of just once.]]>Jul 5th 2008 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
That's why iTunes grinds doggedly slow doing just about _anything_ on my plenty powerful 3.2 GHz X7800 based notebook. Seriously, I love getting a progress bar everytime I launch the dang thing while it (I kid you not) loads my library. Even better is the chillingly slow saving library progress bar at the end.

It isn't a question of OS X or Windows being faster than the other, other apps have no distinguishable performance difference between the two (CS3), it's a matter of apple building a performance/experience bias into their flagship product. Ridiculious. ]]>Jul 5th 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
I do agree that it would be nice to be able to sort video files in a list.]]>Jul 5th 2008 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
Personally, I've used pretty much every media frontend out there, and nothing compares to Vista Media Center, especially since installing MyMovies (www.mymovies.name) and MyTV (mytv.senseitweb.com - the website is currently down there). I was then able to take out the pictures and videos strip, online spotlight strip, and a few other unnecessary icons and its absolutely perfect.

As for built-in QAM support, anyone who cares about this probably bought an HDHomerun anyway, so its not all that big a feature anyway.]]>Jul 5th 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
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Unless you were trying to make some sort of Haiku I guess... but you screwed that up too ;)]]>Jul 5th 2008 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=106&qpmr=14&qpdt=1&qpct=0&sample=4]]>Jul 5th 2008 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
So I dont believe this for a second. ]]>Jul 5th 2008 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
Now they want to sell a device which puts DTV on your laptop? Nonsense, If they followed FCC req's and just permitted bi-directional communication with the HD DVRs they now supply, you could watch shows without another silly device. [The FCC mandated an USB interface, but failed to describe the interface requirements].

Okay, before I am blasted by you all, understand that I am just some dumb engineer who has been doing all of the this for years. That is, I can watch DVT on my laptop without a special box (I do have a server supporting transcoding of virtually all formats) and it cost me almost nothing (actually about $150 for the hardware (used from a previous project)) and could be done for substantially less. In fact, this supports playing on any number of my 1080i/p sets. So folks, why don't they supply a device like I have used for years?




]]>Jul 5th 2008 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Care to elaborate on how you are doing this? Is there a list of components you could provide? You can call it Schindler's List.]]>Jul 5th 2008 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/


If you are going to advertise for Apple, at least do it the right way.]]>Jul 5th 2008 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
I understand they did it on purpose but it doesn't change the fact that it does run slower on PC.]]>Jul 5th 2008 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 6th 2008 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Aug 20th 2008 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
WMP 11 came up first and worked, at 7.0 seconds.
iTunes came up and worked at 24.0 seconds.

Surprise, surprise. That's why I hate iTunes. WMP 11 seems to do much more things than available in iTunes, looks better, and performs better. iTunes is one of the reasons why I just stopped getting iPods. iTunes is just a mess of a program on Windows. ]]>Jul 5th 2008 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/Jul 5th 2008 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
You should try WMP and IE on the Mac. Oh wait, MICROSOFT DOESN'T EVEN SUPPORT THOSE APPS ON MAC ANY LONGER! (And even when they did, they mostly sucked).

A Microsoft fan has no right to denigrate other companies re: performance/experience bias.

Now vote me down, Redmond Horde!]]>Jul 6th 2008 12:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
Let's get down to real basics:
- the ability to support more than one tuner
- the ability to support analogue/digital hybrid tuners (hey - Canada doesn't go fully digital until 2011 - and I'm willing to bet 2009 won't be the real switch year for the US either - we've heard that a lot... but from my experiements in the US and Canada, ATSC reception is stunningly poor)
- the ability to support multiple standards at the same time (people do take their laptops when they travel and since as usual the US - and Canada always following along - had to pick a standard not used anywhere else on the planet... the ability to switch easily between analogue, ATSC, DVB-T and Seg1 would be nice.
- improve the ability to use tuners that don't have hardware MPEG-2
- better yet - stop using MPEG-2 as the one true encoder... DiVX, Xvid, generic MPEG-4... all faster and more compatible.

Yes, HD is cool.. but a lot of people are using MCE on laptops and desktop systems directly - so HD is kind of irrelevent.]]>Jul 6th 2008 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/next-vista-media-center-leaked-no-directv-hd-till-2010/
iTunes takes over 20 second to load on your computer? Must be a piece of shit.
My basic 1.8ghz Core Duo laptop took 8 seconds.


"WMP 11 seems to do much more things than available in iTunes, looks better, and performs better."

Ha, yeah except that little part about previewing and buying music. Hows that Zune software btw?


"iTunes is just a mess of a program on Windows."
Well, I guess me and the other ~150 million that use it every day must be crazy then...
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