Microsoft Windows Media Center 2005 reviews are finally starting to appear, and it looks like MS might have made stupid decisions again.
Some of the reviews:
http://thomashawk.com/2004/10/microsoft-me...enter-2005.html
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.as...mce2005&page=12
http://news.com.com/5208-1041-0.html?forum...=13638&start=-1
Here are some of the major changes:
Some of the reviews:
http://thomashawk.com/2004/10/microsoft-me...enter-2005.html
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.as...mce2005&page=12
http://news.com.com/5208-1041-0.html?forum...=13638&start=-1
Here are some of the major changes:
- Basically, you can now record 1 show and watch the other (not sure yet if you can record 2), I was hoping they would support more than 2 cards.
- HDTV is only supported when used OTA (over the air), they decided not to support HDTV over cable/satellite, probably out of fear of that broadcast flag.
- You can now buy the software without a PC, but it won't come with the required DVD/mpeg2 codec, and the cheap ones such as PowerDVD, etc won't work correctly.
- Built in CD burning wizard for the stored videos/pictures.
- Built in support for MSN.
- Built in RSS reader, but will require a subscription.