Microsoft officially launches MSN Remote Record
Microsoft has officially launched its MSN Remote Record feature, which lets users of Windows XP
Media Center Edition control their PC's DVR features via the Web (the service had been in beta since last November). Of course, this won't seem like a big deal to subscribers of
Tivo or ReplayTV, since they've offered services like this for years, but there is one thing about this that MSN TV users can lord over their Tivo and Replay-using counterparts: the service is free. If you've got a Media Center PC running, the Remote Record service,
like the electronic programming guide used at home, is free (it it any wonder Tivo is in trouble?).