<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/mmm2008-07-24_12.50/rsspretty.aspx?rssquery=en-US;http%3a%2f%2fiandixon.spaces.live.com%2fcategory%2fPodcast%2ffeed.rss' version='1.0'?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:msn="http://schemas.microsoft.com/msn/spaces/2005/rss" xmlns:live="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cf="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Ian Dixon: Podcast</title><description /><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&amp;_c=BlogPart&amp;partqs=catPodcast</link><language>en-US</language><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:34:39 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:34:39 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>Microsoft Spaces v1.1</generator><docs>http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</docs><ttl>60</ttl><cf:parentRSS>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/feed.rss</cf:parentRSS><live:type>blogcategory</live:type><live:identity><live:id>3933948523345100457</live:id><live:alias>iandixon</live:alias></live:identity><cf:listinfo><cf:group ns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" element="typelabel" label="Type" /><cf:group ns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" element="tag" label="Tag" /><cf:group element="category" label="Category" /><cf:sort element="pubDate" label="Date" data-type="date" default="true" /><cf:sort element="title" label="Title" data-type="string" /><cf:sort ns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" element="comments" label="Comments" data-type="number" /></cf:listinfo><item><title>The Media Center Show #162 - Warner Crocker on going mobile</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!3003.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20080626_162.mp3"&gt;Listen Here&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I have a great show this week, Warner Crocker from &lt;a href="http://www.gottabemobile.com/"&gt;Gottabemobile.com&lt;/a&gt; talks about making your digital lifestyle mobile. We talk about the rise of the low cost &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;mobile PCs, UMPCs, tablet PCs and MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices)  and how the product categories are getting blurred.  &lt;p&gt;I also have your email, news items and don't forget about the HP Webinar on the new MediaSmart Connect I will be a guest on  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20080626_162.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; - Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; - Join &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14076390075"&gt;The Media Center Show Group on Facebook&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/isdixon"&gt;Catch me on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Show times and all the links in the &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2008/06/26/the-media-center-show-162-warner-crocker-on-going-mobile.aspx"&gt;podcast show notes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23162+-+Warner+Crocker+on+going+mobile&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!3003.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!3003.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:26:20 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!3003/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!3003.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2008-06-26T11:26:20Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #157 - Microsoft's Hakan Olsson</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2942.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20080522_157.mp3"&gt;Listen Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Continuing on from last weeks conversation about Extenders, Hakan Olsson from Microsoft returns to the show to talk about HP's entry into the market and the other Extenders available.&lt;img hspace=5 src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt; I also have an interview with the winner of the HP HDX Dragon Entertainment PC, Paul was very please to win the unit so I called him up to find out his plans for it. As ever I have your email and news items.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20080522_157.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; - Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; - Join &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14076390075"&gt;The Media Center Show Group on Facebook&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/isdixon"&gt;Catch me on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks to the show sponsor &lt;a href="http://www.techradar.com/"&gt;Techradar.com&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techradar.com/"&gt;&lt;img height=137 src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/TechRadar.jpg" width=239 border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Show Times, links and all the details &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2008/05/22/the-media-center-show-157-microsoft-s-hakan-olsson.aspx"&gt;in the show notes&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23157+-+Microsoft's+Hakan+Olsson&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2942.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2942.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 11:59:40 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2942/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2942.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2008-05-22T11:59:40Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #153 - Intelliremote</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2871.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that I have moved my blog to &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/default.aspx"&gt;TheDigitalLifestyle.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20080424_153.mp3"&gt;Listen Here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;Back after a week off and this week talking to &lt;a href="http://melloware.com/"&gt;Melloware&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;a href="http://melloware.com/products/intelliremote/"&gt;Intelliremote&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://melloware.com/products/intelliremote/"&gt;Intelliremote&lt;/a&gt; is a great application for expanding the use of a Media Center remote so you can control applications like iTunes and take advantage of scripting functions. &lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt; Plus I have a catchup of news items and Email. &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20080424_153.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; - Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; - Join &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14076390075"&gt;The Media Center Show Group on Facebook&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/isdixon"&gt;Catch me on Twitter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/5841/ShowThread.aspx#5841"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Enter the Ultimate Media Center Enthusiast Setup and win an Xbox 360 Elite!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thanks to the show sponsor &lt;a href="http://www.techradar.com/"&gt;Techradar.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techradar.com/"&gt;&lt;img height=137 src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/TechRadar.jpg" width=239 border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Show Times and all the links in &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2008/04/24/the-media-center-show-153-intelliremote.aspx"&gt;the podcast show notes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23153+-+Intelliremote&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2871.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2871.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:12:58 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2871/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2871.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2008-04-24T11:12:58Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #141 - NextGen Home and Extenders</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2696.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (18mb 50mins 428ec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt; &lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/tech_button.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20080124_141.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;At CES I visited the NextGen home (&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/extra/archive/2008/01/13/video-of-the-nextgen-home-at-ces.aspx"&gt;see this video&lt;/a&gt;), it was built to show off Media Center, Home Automation and &lt;a href="http://www.life-ware.com/"&gt;Life|ware&lt;/a&gt;. Actors took you around the home showing off Media Center in the kitchen, living room and bedroom. After the tour I sat down with Mike Seamons from Life|ware and Scott Evans from Microsoft to talk about the aim of the home and the technology behind it. I also managed to interview some of the Extender manufactures. I talked with HP, Samsung and Linksys to find out more details on their extenders and networked products. &lt;p&gt;I have email, news items and software to giveaway &lt;p&gt;Thanks to the show sponsor &lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;Tech.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/podcast/archive/2008/01/23/the-media-center-show-141-nextgen-home-and-extenders.aspx"&gt;Show times and all the RSS feeds on the podcast blog&lt;/a&gt; and don't forget I have moved my blog to &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/default.aspx"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23141+-+NextGen+Home+and+Extenders&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2696.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2696.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:07:27 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2696/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2696.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2008-01-24T09:07:27Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #136 - Steven Hughes</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2611.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/podcast/archive/2007/12/19/the-media-center-show-136-steven-hughes.aspx"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reposted from TheDigitalLifestye.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (18.2mb 53mins 00sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/tech_button.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20071220_136.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to the final show of 2007 as I take a break for Christmas. I have a great show this week, Microsoft MVP and Gadget fan Steven Hughes returns to the show to talk about some of his favourite gadgets and gifts for Chistmas including, Media Center remotes, audio equipment, GPS devices and Zunes. I have news items and an update on my Media Center Health Project  &lt;p&gt;Thanks to the show sponsor &lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;Tech.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Join &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14076390075"&gt;The Media Center Show Group on Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;00:51 Welcome to the show &lt;br&gt;02:04 &lt;a href="http://on10.net/Blogs/Brianjo/amazing-media-center-setup/"&gt;Media Center Video on10.net&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://on10.net/Blogs/EnglishBloke/time-to-introduce-myself/"&gt;Steve's Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;02:56 &lt;a href="http://mobilewares.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!78533A1A2E078194!782.entry?wa=wsignin1.0"&gt;Big Screen Photos V2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;04:30 &lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2007/12/18/1403702.aspx"&gt;Dell CabeCARD FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;04:39 &lt;a href="http://health.thedigitallifestyle.com/"&gt;Media Center Health Monitor - Signup for free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;07:55 CES 08 &lt;br&gt;08:13 &lt;a href="http://awards.thedigitallifestyle.com/"&gt;The Media Center Show Awards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;08:52 A message from &lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;One Voice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;09:50 Welcome to Steven &lt;br&gt;11:45 Steve's new setup &lt;br&gt;17:00 Audio Equipment &lt;br&gt;20:39 Harmony Remote &lt;br&gt;27:07 RF Remote Controls &lt;br&gt;28:00 USB Network server &lt;br&gt;32:00 GPS Units &lt;br&gt;41:20 Zune &lt;br&gt;45:22 Zune accessories &lt;br&gt;48:29 Zune Originals &lt;br&gt;54:33 iPhone &lt;br&gt;58:18 Google Maps &lt;br&gt;1:00:00 Amazon Kindle &lt;br&gt;1:09:56 Digital Picture Frames &lt;br&gt;1:11:07 CES 2008 &lt;br&gt;1:12:09 See you Jan 3rd!  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23136+-+Steven+Hughes&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2611.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2611.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:45:59 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2611/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2611.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-12-20T08:45:59Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #135 - 10ft Media</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2591.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Reposted from &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/podcast/archive/2007/12/13/the-media-center-show-135-10foot-media.aspx"&gt;TheDigitalLifestyle.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Find RSS Feeds, forums, downloads and video shows on &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/podcast/archive/2007/12/13/the-media-center-show-135-10foot-media.aspx"&gt;TheDigitalLifestyle.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (18.2mb 53mins 00sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/tech_button.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20071213_135.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;This week Tim Kay from &lt;a href="http://www.10ftmedia.com/"&gt;10ft Media&lt;/a&gt; explains how they are building and installing Media Center systems in to commercial businesses like Dentists as well as consumers homes. I have email, news items and an update on &lt;a href="http://awards.thedigitallifestyle.com/"&gt;The Media Center Show Awards&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thanks to the show sponsor &lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;Tech.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Join &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14076390075"&gt;The Media Center Show Group on Facebook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;00:50 Coming up this week &lt;br&gt;01:39 Email - Burning DVD,DVRMStoolbox, XP v Vista &lt;br&gt;08:15 &lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2007/12/07/1384849.aspx"&gt;Cablecard from Dell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;09:04 &lt;a href="http://mobilewares.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!78533A1A2E078194!727.entry"&gt;Big Screen Weather 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;09:52 &lt;a href="http://awards.thedigitallifestyle.com/"&gt;The Media Center Show Awards - win stuff!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;11:00 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/12/05/10-foot-version-of-media-center-health-monitor-coming-soon.aspx"&gt;Update on Media Center Health Monitor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;12:00 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/12/10/i-think-it-s-time-for-vista-a-home-media-suite.aspx"&gt;Is Media Center Invisible?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;14:40 Are you going to CES? &lt;br&gt;15:00 A message from &lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;One Voice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;16:20 Welcome to 10ft Media &lt;br&gt;18:50 Media Center in a Dentist &lt;br&gt;22:00 Commercial applications &lt;br&gt;24:41 10ft Media's Media Center range &lt;br&gt;26:00 Cases &lt;br&gt;29:55 TV Cards &lt;br&gt;34:59 HD DVD and Bluray &lt;br&gt;40:00 Adding applications &lt;br&gt;43:38 Product Ranges &lt;br&gt;45:00 Viiv &lt;br&gt;49:36 Video coming soon  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23135+-+10ft+Media&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2591.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2591.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:50:24 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2591/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2591.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-12-13T12:50:24Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #134 - Andrew Edney</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2578.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (16.2mb 47mins 16sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/tech_button.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20071206_134.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;This week &lt;a href="http://www.usingwindowshomeserver.com/"&gt;Andrew Edney&lt;/a&gt;, author of &amp;quot;Using Windows Home Server&amp;quot;  joins me to talk about his new book and some of the features of Windows Home Server. I also have an update on &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/awards07/"&gt;The Media Center Show Awards 2007&lt;/a&gt;, news items and details on my new Media Center project &lt;p&gt;Thanks to the show sponsor &lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;Tech.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Join &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14076390075"&gt;The Media Center Show Group on Facebook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show Times:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;00:52 Coming up this week &lt;br&gt;01:54 Update on &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/awards07/"&gt;The Media Center Show Awards&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/11/30/vote-in-the-media-center-show-awards-and-win.aspx"&gt;win stuff!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;02:52 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/12/05/10-foot-version-of-media-center-health-monitor-coming-soon.aspx"&gt;Media Center Health Monitor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;04:20 &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/01/ricavision-kicks-out-vave100-universal-mce-sideshow-remote/"&gt;Media Center Sideshow Remote&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;04:55 Are you going to &lt;a href="http://cesweb.org/"&gt;CES&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;br&gt;05:27 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/12/04/xbox-video-on-demand-confirmed-for-uk.aspx"&gt;Xbox Live Video downloads comes to the UK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;06:36 Would you like to be on the show? I want to talk to you &lt;br&gt;07:19 A message from &lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;One Voice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;08:32 Welcome to Andrew &lt;br&gt;09:55 Why write the book? &lt;br&gt;12:30 Backups &lt;br&gt;13:56 Recovering a machine &lt;br&gt;18:00 Restoring a file &lt;br&gt;20:09 Networking &lt;br&gt;22:30 Remote Access &lt;br&gt;25:00 Shared Folders &lt;br&gt;28:40 Password sync &lt;br&gt;32:52 Streaming content &lt;br&gt;35:16 Addins &lt;br&gt;36:00 Do you need a AV on Windows Home Server &lt;br&gt;42:05 Why no TV support &lt;br&gt;43:33 Buying the book &lt;br&gt;43:51 &lt;a href="http://www.usingwindowshomeserver.com/"&gt;UsingWindowsHomeServer.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;46:00 Thanks to Andrew &lt;br&gt;47:00 Win a copy of Andrew's book  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23134+-+Andrew+Edney&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2578.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2578.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:59:10 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2578/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2578.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-12-06T12:59:10Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #133 - Tranquil PC</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2553.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (16.2mb 47mins 16sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/tech_button.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20071129_133.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I have two interviews this week recorded on location in Manchester. &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/james/"&gt;James Senior&lt;/a&gt; from Microsoft UK talks about the &amp;quot;Windows Vista After Hours&amp;quot; events hosted around the UK. He explains why they where running the events and how they were showing off consumer products like Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server to IT Professionals. The 2nd interview is with James Thompson of &lt;a href="http://www.tranquilpc.co.uk/"&gt;Tranquil PC&lt;/a&gt;, Tranquil produce a great range of Windows Home Server products (&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/extra/archive/2007/11/12/the-digital-lifestyle-com-video-show-tranquil-s-windows-home-server.aspx"&gt;like the one I review a couple of weeks ago&lt;/a&gt;).  &lt;p&gt;I also have email, news items and the launch of &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/awards07/"&gt;The Media Center Show Awards 2007&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks to the show sponsor &lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;Tech.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Join &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14076390075"&gt;The Media Center Show Group on Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show Times:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;p&gt;01:00 Coming up this week &lt;br&gt;01:30 Welcome Zune subscribers &lt;br&gt;02:20 Email - &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/extra/rss.aspx"&gt;Video Show RSS Feed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;03:01 Email - Windows Home Server Streaming &lt;br&gt;05:15 Email - Sky to Media Center &lt;br&gt;07:13 Email - Orb or Webguide? &lt;br&gt;10:00 Email - What Podcasts do you listen to? &lt;a href="http://www.mobiletechroundup.com/"&gt;MobileTechRoundup,&lt;/a&gt; ClassicFM.com &lt;br&gt;11:43 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/11/27/delay-on-uk-shipments-of-extenders-till-february.aspx"&gt;V2 Extenders delayed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;12:40 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/11/26/media-center-meets-piano.aspx"&gt;Media Center in a piano&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;13:25 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/community/archive/2007/11/26/the-media-center-show-awards-2007-are-go.aspx"&gt;The Media Center Show Awards 2007&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;17:28 A message from &lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;One Voice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;19:00 Interview - James Senior (Microsoft UK) &lt;br&gt;20:00 What is the Vista After Hours Event &lt;br&gt;23:00 Welcome to James Thompson from Tranquil PC &lt;br&gt;25:00 Tranquil's Windows Home Server &lt;br&gt;27:15 Components &lt;br&gt;30:00 Design &lt;br&gt;32:20 Why manufacture a Windows Home Server System &lt;br&gt;35:00 How to recover their Windows Home Server &lt;br&gt;40:00 Hard drives &lt;br&gt;42:39 How to &lt;a href="http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/acatalog/T7-HSA.html"&gt;purchase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;43:47 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/extra/archive/2007/11/12/the-digital-lifestyle-com-video-show-tranquil-s-windows-home-server.aspx"&gt;Video Review of Tranquil's Windows Home Server&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23133+-+Tranquil+PC&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2553.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2553.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:44:00 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2553/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2553.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-11-29T12:44:00Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #132 - Scott Evans (Microsoft)</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2534.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (15.8mb 44mins 52sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/tech_button.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20071122_132.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a&gt;Get the show on your Zune&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;This week Scott Evans, Group Manager for the eHome division at Microsoft joins me to talk about how Microsoft are pushing Media Center in to the Custom AV channel and how Customer Installers are adapting to Windows Media Center. We also discus &lt;a href="http://www.asciiexpress.com/webguide"&gt;Webguide&lt;/a&gt; now the developer (Doug Berret) has joined Microsoft. I also have email and news items. &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am looking to feature more end users on the show, so if your an enthusiasts of Media Center and would like to talk about your system on the show, let me know: Show @TheDigitalLifestyle.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thanks to the show sponsor &lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;Tech.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Join &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14076390075"&gt;The Media Center Show Group on Facebook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show Times:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;00:49 Coming up this week &lt;br&gt;01:55 Email - Home Automation -&lt;a href="http://simplyautomate.co.uk/"&gt;SimplyAutomate.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;02:40 Software giveaway winner &lt;br&gt;04:10 &lt;a href="http://www.linksys.co.uk/acatalog/DMA2200.html?gclid=COWQ2ua7548CFQhFMAodZ0uKXw"&gt;Windows Media Center Extenders in the UK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;04:43 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/11/20/windows-media-center-sdk-5-3-now-available.aspx"&gt;Windows Media Center SDK updated&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;06:12 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/extra/archive/2007/11/15/the-digital-lifestyle-com-video-show-zune-and-media-center-recorded-tv.aspx"&gt;Video of new Zune TV functions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;07:51 MissingRemote &lt;a href="http://www.missingremote.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=2294&amp;amp;Itemid=1"&gt;10 things you can do with Media Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;08:20 A Message from &lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;OneVoice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;09:12 Welcome to Scott Evans &lt;br&gt;09:34 Scott's background &lt;br&gt;10:11 Media Center and the custom installers &lt;br&gt;14:00 Media Center as CEDIA &lt;br&gt;15:55 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/podcast/archive/2007/09/20/the-media-center-show-123-life-ware.aspx"&gt;Life|Ware&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;17:53 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/podcast/archive/2007/11/15/the-media-center-show-131-russound.aspx"&gt;Russound&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;20:22 Customer Installs &lt;br&gt;22:00 4 tuner support &lt;br&gt;24:49 &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/mediacenter/ceinstaller/ultimateinstallcontest.mspx"&gt;Windows Media Center Ultimate Installers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;28:00 Extenders &lt;br&gt;31:00 Windows Home Server &lt;br&gt;35:30 Internet TV &lt;br&gt;36:40 &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/mediacenter/ceinstaller/default.mspx"&gt;Microsoft's Customer Install Site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;37:32 &lt;a href="http://www.asciiexpress.com/webguide"&gt;Webguide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;41:02 Thanks to Scott &lt;br&gt;41:23 Send in your email, watch the videos and join the Facebook group  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23132+-+Scott+Evans+(Microsoft)&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2534.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2534.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:30:12 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2534/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2534.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-11-22T12:30:12Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #131 - Russound</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2504.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (18.3mb 53mins 17sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/tech_button.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20071115_131.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a&gt;Subscribe via Zune&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;This week Jeff Kussard from &lt;a href="http://www.russound.com/"&gt;Russound&lt;/a&gt; joins me to talk about how Russound are integrating Windows Media Center with their whole house audio systems. We also talk about their new range of Media Center Servers &lt;p&gt;I also have email and news items. &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am looking to feature more end users on the show, so if your an enthusiasts of Media Center and would like to talk about your system on the show, let me know: Show @TheDigitalLifestyle.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thanks to the show sponsor &lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;Tech.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Join &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14076390075"&gt;The Media Center Show Group on Facebook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Show Times: &lt;p&gt;00:45 Coming up this week &lt;br&gt;01:27 Email - Xbox, &lt;a href="http://runtime360.com/projects/transcode-360/"&gt;Transcode 360&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;03:10 Email - 50hz again! &lt;br&gt;04:37 Email - Zune Update &lt;br&gt;05:44 Email - DVB-T Subtitles &lt;br&gt;08:05 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/11/08/microsoft-announces-winner-of-windows-media-center-ultimate-install-contest.aspx"&gt;Windows Media Center Ultimate Installer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;08:41 Zune 2 news and thoughts &lt;br&gt;09:35 &lt;a href="http://zunethoughts.com/"&gt;ZuneThoughts.com&lt;/a&gt; video reviews &lt;br&gt;10:00 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/11/13/first-impressions-of-the-new-zune-software.aspx"&gt;My thoughts on the new Zune&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;11:22 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/11/13/zune-recorded-tv-sync-speed.aspx"&gt;Get the show on your Zune&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;11:45 Recorded TV support &lt;br&gt;14:43 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/11/13/the-digital-lifestyle-com-video-show-tranquil-s-windows-home-server.aspx"&gt;My video review of Tranquil PC's Windows Home Server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;15:34 &lt;a href="http://blog.retrosight.com/DoesThisCoverTheScenarios.aspx"&gt;Charlie Owen on Microsoft integration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;15:56 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/11/13/introducing-the-niveus-media-extender-edge.aspx"&gt;Niveus new Extender&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;17:11 A message from &lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;One Voice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;17:56 Welcome to Jeff Kussard &lt;br&gt;18:51 Background on &lt;a href="http://www.russound.com/"&gt;Russound&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;20:18 Changing requirements of Home Audio &lt;br&gt;24:06 How Media Center fits in &lt;br&gt;30:19 Russ Sound's range of Media Center Servers &lt;br&gt;33:00 Connecting Russound accessories &lt;br&gt;37:10 How to get Russound equipment &lt;br&gt;40:00 Media Center stability &lt;br&gt;40:40 Using Media Center as a platform &lt;br&gt;42:00 Home automation with Lifeware &lt;br&gt;45:55 Thanks to Jeff &lt;br&gt;46:00 Shortcut's for &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/thread/3537.aspx"&gt;TheDigitalLifestyle.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23131+-+Russound&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2504.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2504.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:28:26 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2504/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2504.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-11-15T12:28:26Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #130 - Squirrel Stash</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2440.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (18.3mb 53mins 17sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/tech_button.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20071108_130.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a&gt;Subscribe via Zune&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;This week Glen Maughan joins me to talk about &lt;a href="http://squirrelstash.com/"&gt;Squirrel Stash&lt;/a&gt;. Squirrel Stash is an application for securely protecting pictures and media via an encrypted stash all from the 10 foot media center user interface. I also have email, news items and a software giveway &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am looking to feature more end users on the show, so if your an enthusiasts of Media Center and would like to talk about your system on the show, let me know: Show @TheDigitalLifestyle.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thanks to the show sponsor &lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;Tech.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Show Times: &lt;p&gt;00:56 Coming up this week &lt;br&gt;01:26 Join &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14076390075"&gt;The Media Center Show Group on Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;02:24 Using the Xbox 360 remote with a PC &lt;br&gt;04:20 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/thread/3441.aspx"&gt;Refresh rates on the Xbox 360&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;05:36 Questions on Samsung Q1 - &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/10/09/niveus-media-center-companion-review.aspx"&gt;Niveus Companion software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;07:08 Getting Started with Media Center Development - &lt;a href="http://mediacentersandbox.com/"&gt;MediaCenterSandbox.com&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a43ea0b7-b85f-4612-aa08-3bf128c5873e&amp;amp;displaylang=en"&gt;Windows Media Center SDK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;08:50 &lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/media-centered/general/blogs/2007/11/01/how-developers-are-improving-media-center"&gt;Developers extending Media Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;09:29 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/11/02/extenders-to-launch-in-the-uk-soon.aspx"&gt;Media Center Extenders coming to the UK soon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;10:37 &lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2007/11/02/1279136.aspx"&gt;Extender price break in the US&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;11:18 &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/archive/2007/11/05/3-2-1-ignition.aspx"&gt;Windows Home Server news&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;11:52 Join us next week on &lt;a href="http://ustream.tv/channel/thedigitallifestylecom---live"&gt;Ustream.tv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;12:40 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/11/06/embedded-automation-releases-mcontrol-add-in-for-windows-home-server.aspx"&gt;mControl for Windows Home Server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;13:06 A messages from &lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;One Voice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;14:10 Welcome to Glen Maughan &lt;br&gt;15:51 Working with Bitlocker &lt;br&gt;16:18 Starting developing with Media Center &lt;br&gt;17:00 What is Squirrel Stash &lt;br&gt;19:56 The Media Center addin &lt;br&gt;22:01 Working with an Xbox 360 &lt;br&gt;24:36 The look and feel &lt;br&gt;27:27 Versions and prices &lt;br&gt;28:50 What can you use it for? &lt;br&gt;32:20 Encryption &lt;br&gt;36:34 &lt;a href="http://squirrelstash.com/"&gt;Get the free download&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;37:33 Win a copy of Squirrel Stash Unlimited! &lt;br&gt;38:15 See you on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14076390075"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/default.aspx"&gt;forums&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/default.aspx"&gt;blogs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img height=1 alt="" src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;amp;page=RSS:+The+Media+Center+Show+%23116+-+Mike+Garcen&amp;amp;referrer=" width=1 border=0&gt;&lt;img height=0px alt="" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=88469&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon" width=0px&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23130+-+Squirrel+Stash&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2440.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2440.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:13:19 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2440/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2440.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-11-08T12:13:19Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #129 - Pete Stagman</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2416.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (18.3mb 53mins 17sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/tech_button.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20071101_129.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;This week &lt;a href="http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/"&gt;Microsoft MVP&lt;/a&gt; Pete Stagman joins me to chat about introducing Windows Media Center to his Home Theater User group (&lt;a href="http://htpcug.org/"&gt;HTPCUG.org&lt;/a&gt;) and how he got started with Windows Media Center. I have news and forum threads. &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am looking to feature more end users on the show, so if your an enthusiasts of Media Center and would like to talk about your system on the show, let me know: Show @TheDigitalLifestyle.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thanks to the show sponsor &lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;Tech.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Show Times: &lt;br&gt;00:50 Coming up this week &lt;br&gt;01:25 Forum - &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/3480/ShowThread.aspx#3480"&gt;Problem with Windows Media Player Enhancements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;03:10 Forum - &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/thread/3479.aspx"&gt;Recording 24 hours of TV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;04:20 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/3457/ShowThread.aspx#3457"&gt;The Media Center Show Awards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;05:05 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/10/27/mvp-developers-impressed-with-media-center.aspx"&gt;Media Center Development shown to MVPs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;06:17 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/10/28/new-video-review-of-tranquil-pc-home-serve-coming-soon.aspx"&gt;Tranquil Windows Home Server PC Video review coming up soon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;07:04 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/developer/archive/2007/10/29/emucenter-0-5-0.aspx"&gt;EMUCenter 0.50&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;07:24 A Message from &lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;One Voice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;08:34 Welcome to Pete &lt;br&gt;10:00 Starting out with Home Theater &lt;br&gt;10:50 Getting it working at home &lt;br&gt;13:07 &lt;a href="http://windowsboston.com/"&gt;WindowsBoston.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;16:54 Showing off Windows Media Center &lt;br&gt;18:25 Home Theater User Group &lt;br&gt;20:00 Digital TV &lt;br&gt;23:06 Building a Media Center PC &lt;br&gt;26:55 Extenders &lt;br&gt;28:44 Media Center Servers &lt;br&gt;33:36 Becoming a MVP &lt;br&gt;38:28 Home Automation &lt;br&gt;42:25 Growing the user base &lt;br&gt;45:21 Getting vendors to show off their kit &lt;br&gt;48:34 Join the user group &lt;br&gt;49:46 Keep the email coming &lt;br&gt;50:60 See you next week &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img height=1 alt="" src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;amp;page=RSS:+The+Media+Center+Show+%23116+-+Mike+Garcen&amp;amp;referrer=" width=1 border=0&gt;&lt;img height=0px alt="" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=88469&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon" width=0px&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.orb.com/getorb/scs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/orblogotags.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23129+-+Pete+Stagman&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2416.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2416.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:14:41 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2416/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2416.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-11-01T10:14:41Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #128 - mControl 2.0</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2404.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (17mb 49mins 30sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/tech_button.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20071025_128.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;This week Ted Singh from &lt;a href="http://www.embeddedautomation.com/"&gt;Embedded Automation&lt;/a&gt; returns to the show to talk about &lt;a href="http://www.embeddedautomation.com/EAHAmControl.htm"&gt;mControl 2.0&lt;/a&gt;, a home automation package written for Vista Media Center. We talk about what the new MCML user interface, security and other updates to 2.0 &lt;p&gt;I have email, news items and a winner of the One Voice competition &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welcome to the new show sponsor &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tech.co.uk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Show Times:&lt;br&gt;00:55 Coming up this week&lt;br&gt;01:34 Email - Refresh Rates - &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/3458/ShowThread.aspx#3458"&gt;see this thread&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;03:28 Windows Live Listas - &lt;a href="http://listas.labs.live.com/user/TheDigitalLifestyle.com/lista/eb0c8c8e-5620-4e79-ba8a-1bcddb52c488"&gt;The Media Center Show Nominations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;04:47 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/10/20/toshiba-working-with-microsoft-on-new-entertainment-xbox-smarthouse.aspx"&gt;An all in one Xbox 360?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;06:06 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/10/24/199-xbox-360-makes-great-extender.aspx"&gt;Xbox 360 Arcade, a low cost extender&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;07:30 &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMCSaMXHI_U"&gt;Youtube video of UMPC and Streedeck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;08:41 Winner of the One Voice competitor&lt;br&gt;09:30 A Message from&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt; One Voice&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;10:19 Welcome to Ted Singh&lt;br&gt;12:40 Who are &lt;a href="http://www.embeddedautomation.com/"&gt;Embedded Automation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;14:00 V1&lt;br&gt;16:28 HTML applications in V2&lt;br&gt;20:00 Security&lt;br&gt;24:00 Using Windows Home Server&lt;br&gt;25:00 Devices&lt;br&gt;25:34 Automation&lt;br&gt;33:00 Driver Device Kit&lt;br&gt;36:00 Clients&lt;br&gt;39:53 Wall Mounting&lt;br&gt;42:50 &lt;a href="http://www.embeddedautomation.com/EAHAmControl.htm"&gt;Download a free trial&lt;/a&gt; and discus on the &lt;a href="http://www.embeddedautomation.com/forum"&gt;Embedded Automation forums&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;44:37 See you next week &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img height=1 alt="" src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;amp;page=RSS:+The+Media+Center+Show+%23116+-+Mike+Garcen&amp;amp;referrer=" width=1 border=0&gt;&lt;img height=0px alt="" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=88469&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon" width=0px&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.orb.com/getorb/scs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/orblogotags.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23128+-+mControl+2.0&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2404.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2404.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:18:51 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2404/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2404.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-10-25T11:18:51Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #127 - MCEDEV.COM</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2390.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (17mb 49mins 30sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/tech_button.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20071018_127.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;This week German Media Center developer Olcay Buyan from &lt;a href="http://mcedev.com/"&gt;MCEDEV.Com&lt;/a&gt; talks about his Media Center applications including &lt;a href="http://mcedev.com/News.aspx?id=2f320e6c-97bc-4616-a8de-cb1e65c3390c"&gt;TVToolbox&lt;/a&gt; a great application for editing and converting Recorded TV files all from Vista Media Center. I have email, news items and an update on The &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/3438/ShowThread.aspx#3438"&gt;Media Center Show Awards.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welcome to the new show sponsor &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tech.co.uk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Show Times: &lt;p&gt;00:54 Coming up this week&lt;br&gt;01:52 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/3446/ShowThread.aspx#3446"&gt;Refresh Rates in Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;05:20 &lt;a href="http://www.zunetvwatcher.com/"&gt;ZuneTVWatch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;06:15 &lt;a href="http://www.lifextender.com/download.aspx"&gt;Lifextender&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;06:52 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/3438/ShowThread.aspx#3438"&gt;The Media Center Show Awards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;07:40 A Message from &lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;One Voice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;08:30 Welcome to Olcay&lt;br&gt;09:16 Starting out with Media Center development&lt;br&gt;10:42 Developing &lt;a href="http://mcedev.com/Download.aspx?id=c60616f3-95d1-489e-bad4-aec834cef226"&gt;MCE Customizer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;15:57 Developing Vista Media Center applications &lt;br&gt;17:30 &lt;a href="http://discuss.mediacentersandbox.com/"&gt;MediaCenterSandbox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;17:44 MCEThemes&lt;br&gt;17:57 Media Center FX&lt;br&gt;19:08 &lt;a href="http://mcedev.com/Download.aspx?id=dfe72cb8-b1e9-455a-b2b2-90fb1cad547d"&gt;MCEQuery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;23:10 &lt;a href="http://mcedev.com/Download.aspx?id=348c3b8b-dca9-4a9e-9325-54a43c3060a2"&gt;TV Toolbox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;29:21 Converting to other formats&lt;br&gt;34:10 &lt;a href="http://mcedev.com/News.aspx?id=744daf2c-78a3-46d3-b1e7-8cf214d2d14f"&gt;Cookbook application&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;42:42 Financing development projects&lt;br&gt;46:00 See you next week &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img height=1 alt="" src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;amp;page=RSS:+The+Media+Center+Show+%23116+-+Mike+Garcen&amp;amp;referrer=" width=1 border=0&gt;&lt;img height=0px alt="" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=88469&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon" width=0px&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.orb.com/getorb/scs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/orblogotags.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23127+-+MCEDEV.COM&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2390.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2390.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:18:32 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2390/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2390.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-10-18T11:18:32Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #125 - Real World 1</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2353.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (14.3mb 64mins 16sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/tech_button.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20071004_125.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Two interviews this week, first up is Peter Near talking about his campaign to get rid of Set Top Boxes in Canada and how Canadians can get involved to help raise the profile of the issue(&lt;a href="http://dropthebox.ca/"&gt;DropTheBox.ca&lt;/a&gt;). Then there is the first of my Real World interviews, this is where I talk to real world users about Windows Media Center, and in this interview I talks to Dallas teacher Carlos Amador. We chat about how he got in to Media Center and how simplicity and reliability were key factors in choosing the Media Center platform. I also have email, news items and a chance to win a copy of One Voices' Media Center Communicator and LTB's L-Beam Wireless Microphone System.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welcome to the new show sponsor &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tech.co.uk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Show times:  &lt;p&gt;00:57 Coming up this week&lt;br&gt;02:02 Email - DVD-WMV&lt;br&gt;04:41 &lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2007/09/26/1218313.aspx"&gt;Extender Prices&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/09/27/hp-to-introduce-media-smart-tv-s-with-media-center-extender.aspx"&gt;HP enter the Extender market&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;08:00 Joe Belfiore responds to price disappointment&lt;br&gt;08:39 Internet TV Beta - &lt;a href="http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2007/09/27/streaming-internet-content-with-internet-tv-beta-to-windows-media-center.aspx"&gt;Windows Experience Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;09:21 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/10/02/re-awarded-an-mvp.aspx"&gt;Re-awarded a MVP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;10:11 The Media Center Show Awards are coming back &lt;br&gt;11:35 Peter Near - &lt;a href="http://dropthebox.ca/"&gt;DroptheBox.ca&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;13:02 The current situation&lt;br&gt;15:03 Why do you need CableCARD&lt;br&gt;21:15 What can you do?&lt;br&gt;24:00 Thanks to Peter, go to &lt;a href="http://dropthebox.ca/"&gt;DropTheBox.ca&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;25:00 Win Media Center Communicator and the L-Beam Wireless Microphone System (&lt;a href="http://www.sayittoplayit.com/"&gt;link to video&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br&gt;25:41 &lt;a href="http://www.sayittoplayit.com/"&gt;A message from One Voice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;26:12 Welcome to Carlos&lt;br&gt;27:48 Going from Myth TV to Media Center&lt;br&gt;30:00 Using Poweline Networks&lt;br&gt;33:00 Solving network problems&lt;br&gt;35:00 Working with Remotes&lt;br&gt;39:00 Carlos' Media Center System&lt;br&gt;44:39 HD Content&lt;br&gt;44:44 CableCARD&lt;br&gt;46:00 IPTV&lt;br&gt;49:00 Windows Home Server&lt;br&gt;52:14 Zune Integration (coming soon)&lt;br&gt;55:00 Streaming DVDs&lt;br&gt;58:00 HD-DVD&lt;br&gt;1:00:10 I want to get more Real World interviews&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img height=1 alt="" src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;amp;page=RSS:+The+Media+Center+Show+%23116+-+Mike+Garcen&amp;amp;referrer=" width=1 border=0&gt;&lt;img height=0px alt="" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=88469&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon" width=0px&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.orb.com/getorb/scs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/orblogotags.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23125+-+Real+World+1&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2353.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2353.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:15:28 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2353/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2353.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-10-04T11:15:28Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #124 - Microsoft on V2 Extenders</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2325.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (14.3mb 41mins 36sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/tech_button.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20070927_124.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;This week Hakan Olsson, Senior Marketing Manager for Windows Media Center joins me to talk about today's launch of the version 2 extenders. We talk about what they are, who is making them and how they fit in with the digital lifestyle. We also talk about the new beta Internet TV feature in Media Center. I have email, news items and a chance to win a copy of One Voices' Media Center Communicator and LTB's L-Beam Wireless Microphone System.  &lt;p&gt;This information is very hot off the press as all the details are being announced today as this show goes out  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welcome to the new show sponsor &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tech.co.uk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Watch Joe Belfiore’s keynote address live &lt;a href="http://wm.istreamplanet.com/customers/ms/09272007_100k.asx"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Show times:  &lt;p&gt;00:58 Coming up this week&lt;br&gt;02:37 Email - Vista TV Playback problem&lt;br&gt;04:35 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/09/21/vista-after-hours-event-last-night-and-how-people-are-blown-away-with-media-cneter.aspx"&gt;Vista After Hours&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;06:15 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/09/21/details-on-life-ware-s-quad-cablecard-media-server.aspx"&gt;Life|Ware's quad core&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;06:40 Charlie Owen on &lt;a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HanselminutesPodcast8210FootDevelopmentForMediaCenter.aspx"&gt;Hanselminutes 82&lt;/a&gt; podcast&lt;br&gt;07:27 &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ChrisLaniersBlog/~3/160854112/1214067.aspx"&gt;Update for Cablecard tuners&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;07:40 Extender updates (&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=af72521d-611c-4eb7-88d3-55c0a52f4a4a&amp;amp;displaylang=en&amp;amp;tm"&gt;x86&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1841de8e-2d81-4991-ac23-06848dc19d6d&amp;amp;displaylang=en&amp;amp;tm"&gt;x64&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br&gt;08:11 Windows Vista Service Pack 1 installation, &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/09/25/windows-vista-sp1.aspx"&gt;with 6 reboots!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;10:00 &lt;a href="http://www.brianfrost.com/mce/mce_drvms2mp3.htm"&gt;A Guide to converting DVR-MS files to mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;10:48 Win Media Center Communicator and the L-Beam Wireless Microphone System (&lt;a href="http://www.sayittoplayit.com/"&gt;link to video&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br&gt;11:44 &lt;a href="http://wm.istreamplanet.com/customers/ms/09272007_100k.asx"&gt;Watch Joe Belfiore’s keynote address from Digital Life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;11:59 &lt;a href="http://www.sayittoplayit.com/"&gt;A message from One Voice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;13:11 Welcome to Hakan Olsson&lt;br&gt;14:20 What is a Media Center Extender?&lt;br&gt;17:20 Who are making Extenders?&lt;br&gt;18:20 HD Content on Extenders&lt;br&gt;20:30 How can you connect it?&lt;br&gt;22:40 How many Extenders can you connect?&lt;br&gt;24:45 The UI&lt;br&gt;28:11 Passing the WAF test&lt;br&gt;28:38 What is the difference between the Xbox 360 Extender and the new Extenders?&lt;br&gt;30:15 Support for Divx/Xdiv&lt;br&gt;32:29 3rd Party applications&lt;br&gt;33:45 Internet TV Beta&lt;br&gt;38:33 Connectivity&lt;br&gt;44:44 &lt;a href="http://windowsvista.com/Extender"&gt;WindowsVista.com/Extender&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;45:30 See you next week  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img height=1 alt="" src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;amp;page=RSS:+The+Media+Center+Show+%23116+-+Mike+Garcen&amp;amp;referrer=" width=1 border=0&gt;&lt;img height=0px alt="" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=88469&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon" width=0px&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.orb.com/getorb/scs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/orblogotags.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23124+-+Microsoft+on+V2+Extenders&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2325.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2325.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:53:44 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2325/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2325.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-09-27T11:53:44Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #123 - Life|ware</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2298.entry</link><description>&lt;h5&gt;The Media Center Show #123 - Life|ware&lt;/h5&gt; &lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (14.3mb 41mins 36sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20070920_123.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;This week Mike Seamons from &lt;a href="http://www.life-ware.com/"&gt;Life|ware&lt;/a&gt; joins me to talk about the changes to Life|ware over the last year and how Life|ware has developed beyond Home Automation. We also talk about how the release of Windows Vista has impacted Life|ware. I have email, news items and a chance to win a copy of One Voices' Media Center Communicator and LTB's L-Beam Wireless Microphone System.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=144 src="http://www.sayittoplayit.com/combo.jpg" width=131&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Media Center Show with &lt;a href="http://www.orb.com/getorb/scs"&gt;Orb Networks&lt;/a&gt;, email the show: Show [at] TheDigitallifestyle.com  &lt;p&gt;Show Times: &lt;p&gt;00:55 Coming up this week&lt;br&gt;01:34 Email - Windows Media Player Library&lt;br&gt;03:45 Email - &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayerbeta/"&gt;BBC iPlayer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;05:00 Email - Home Automation&lt;br&gt;06:48 Email - Pronounce &lt;a href="http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/faq/support_faq_pci.html"&gt;Hauppauge&lt;/a&gt; right Ian!&lt;br&gt;07:39 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/extra/archive/2007/09/17/the-digital-lifestyle-com-video-show-8.aspx"&gt;The Digital Lifestyle.com Video Show #8&lt;/a&gt; Omaura TF8 Home Theatre PC chassis , thanks to &lt;a href="http://specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/product.php?productid=3972&amp;amp;cat=667&amp;amp;page=1"&gt;SpecialTech&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;09:09 &lt;a href="http://discuss.mediacentersandbox.com/forums/thread/4784.aspx"&gt;Steven Harding - Community Devloper Expert&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://blog.mediacentersandbox.com/ct.ashx?id=97c3dcba-8be7-46ae-a839-4e10dfd7db62&amp;amp;url=http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/developer/default.aspx"&gt;The Digital Lifestyle Developer Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;09:50 Addinistrator -&lt;a href="http://www.codeplex.com/addinistrator"&gt;codeplex.com/addinistrator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;10:46 &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/james/archive/2007/09/17/win-copy-of-using-vista-media-center-book.aspx"&gt;Win a copy of my book with James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;11:11 Win Media Center Communicator and the L-Beam Wireless Microphone System (&lt;a href="http://www.sayittoplayit.com/"&gt;link to video&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br&gt;12:23 The Digital Lifestyle.com &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/files/default.aspx"&gt;Downloads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;12:54 &lt;a href="http://www.sayittoplayit.com/"&gt;A message from One Voice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;13:40 Welcome to Mike Seamons&lt;br&gt;14:08 What is &lt;a href="http://www.life-ware.com/"&gt;Life|ware&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;17:19 Webservice for Devices&lt;br&gt;27:01 Windows Home Server and Media Center&lt;br&gt;28:43 Lifeware Interfaces&lt;br&gt;30:50 Changes for Windows Vista&lt;br&gt;34:48 &lt;a href="http://www.life-ware.com/products.php"&gt;New Hardware products&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;39:13 Home Entertainment Console - not a PC&lt;br&gt;39:46 Whole House Audio&lt;br&gt;43:00 Professional Installers&lt;br&gt;49:00 Getting Media Center in to retail stores&lt;br&gt;54:13 Getting hold of Life|ware&lt;br&gt;55:55 &lt;a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa480212.aspx"&gt;Web Services on Devices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;59:23 Thanks to Mike &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img height=1 alt="" src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;amp;page=RSS:+The+Media+Center+Show+%23116+-+Mike+Garcen&amp;amp;referrer=" width=1 border=0&gt;&lt;img height=0px alt="" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=88469&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon" width=0px&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23123+-+Life%7cware&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2298.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2298.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:45:23 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2298/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2298.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-09-20T11:45:23Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #122 - CEDIA News and Email</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2284.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (14.3mb 41mins 36sec)  &lt;img style="margin:5px" src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20070913_122.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;There was a lot of news around this week from CEDIA and I had a heap of email so there is no interview on the the show this week as I talk about the all the Media Center news coming out of CEDIA,  email and other news items. With details of the V2 Extenders coming out it is exciting times for Media Center enthusiasts.  &lt;p&gt;The show will be back to it's regular format next week.  &lt;p&gt;The Media Center Show with &lt;a href="http://www.orb.com/getorb/scs"&gt;Orb Networks&lt;/a&gt;, email the show: Show [at] TheDigitallifestyle.com  &lt;p&gt;Show Times:&lt;br&gt;00:50 Coming up this week&lt;br&gt;01:26 What is the CEDIA Show&lt;br&gt;02:50 Email - Controlling Cable Boxes, &lt;a href="http://www.xpmediacenter.com.au/"&gt;XPMediaCenter.com.au&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;04:54 Email - &lt;a href="http://www.webisode.com/beta/"&gt;Webisode.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;06:00 Email - New listener and 3rd party applications&lt;br&gt;07:32 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/thread/3261.aspx"&gt;Forum reply on last weeks email re Slow Media Center Performance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;09:30 Rebuilding Windows Media Player Library&lt;br&gt;11:04 Comment on last weeks show - &lt;a href="http://www.automatedhome.com/"&gt;AutomatedHome.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;11:38 CEDIA News - &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/09/06/media-center-extenders.aspx"&gt;V2 Extender details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;15:14 Niveus Extender&lt;br&gt;16:12 &lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2007/09/05/1167857.aspx"&gt;Four Tuner CABLEcard solutions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;17:34 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/09/06/media-center-news-from-cedia.aspx"&gt;Other CEDIA announcements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;18:50 &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/ceinstaller"&gt;Windows Media Center Ultimate Install Contest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;19:57 &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/07/microsoft-bringing-internet-tv-feature-to-windows-media-center/"&gt;Internet TV Plugin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;21:30 &lt;a href="http://www.asciiexpress.com/webguide/forums/Default.aspx?g=posts&amp;amp;t=1754"&gt;Doug Berrett joins Media Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;22:39 &lt;a href="http://www.embeddedautomation.com/EACONewsPR070912-01.htm"&gt;mControl 2.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;24:06 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/09/06/integrating-a-umpc-with-windows-media-center.aspx"&gt;Use a UMPC to control Media Center (video)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;26:26 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/extra/archive/2007/09/10/the-digitallifestyle-com-video-show-7-vidabox-wireless-keyboard.aspx"&gt;The Digital Lifestyle.com Video Show #7 - Vidabox Remote Keyboard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;27:28 10% off for show listeners&lt;br&gt;29:03 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/3285/ShowThread.aspx#3285"&gt;What format do you like to see the video show?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;29:49 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/09/08/major-recording-problems-in-my-media-center.aspx"&gt;Problems with my Media Center recording TV&lt;/a&gt;, now &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/09/10/recording-problems-fixed-and-now-media-center-is-10x-faster.aspx"&gt;fixed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;33:26 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/09/10/bbc-on-xbox-live.aspx"&gt;BBC on Xbox Live?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;34:58 Forum: &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/thread/3262.aspx"&gt;Feature Request for Music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;36:10 Forum: &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/thread/3271.aspx"&gt;64bit DVD decoder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;37:48 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/thread/3203.aspx"&gt;Vista After Hours Event&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;38:10 Back to the normal format next week &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img height=1 alt="" src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;amp;page=RSS:+The+Media+Center+Show+%23116+-+Mike+Garcen&amp;amp;referrer=" width=1 border=0&gt;&lt;img height=0px alt="" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=88469&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon" width=0px&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23122+-+CEDIA+News+and+Email&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2284.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2284.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:00:55 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2284/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2284.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-09-13T11:00:55Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #121 - Mark McCall</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2262.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (16.9mb 1 hour 11mins 42sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20070906_121.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;After a week off, I am back with Mark McCall from &lt;a href="http://www.automatedhome.com/"&gt;AutomatedHome.com&lt;/a&gt; talking about Home Automation, the type of devices you can control, security and how you can add intelligence to you home with the power of the PC and Windows Media Center  &lt;p&gt;I have email and a news catchup.  &lt;p&gt;The Media Center Show with &lt;a href="http://www.orb.com/getorb/scs"&gt;Orb Networks&lt;/a&gt;, email the show: Show [at] TheDigitallifestyle.com   &lt;p&gt;Show Times: &lt;p&gt;00:53 Coming up this week&lt;br&gt;01:18 Email - Extenders&lt;br&gt;02:49 Email - Home Automation&lt;br&gt;06:00 Email - Vista Music performance&lt;br&gt;07:14 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/extra/archive/2007/08/29/the-digitallifestyle-com-video-show-6-sony-xl301-xl302-bluray-media-center-pc.aspx"&gt;TheDigitalLifestyle.com Video Show - Sony XL301&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;08:25 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/developer/archive/2007/08/30/what-i-ve-been-doing.aspx"&gt;Developer Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;09:05 &lt;a href="http://www.missingremote.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=2146&amp;amp;Itemid=2"&gt;S1Digital ship Cablecard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;09:15 &lt;a href="http://blog.retrosight.com/Happy5thBirthdayWindowsMediaCenter.aspx"&gt;Media Center Birthday&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;09:54 &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/default.aspx"&gt;Windows Home Server Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;11:10 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/08/29/windows-vista-sp1-and-xp-sp3-coming-soon.aspx"&gt;Service Pack details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;12:04 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/09/04/coolroom-comes-to-media-center.aspx"&gt;Coolroom on Media Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;13:27 &lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;One Voice: Media Center Communicator&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/files/folders/downloads/entry2963.aspx"&gt;Download a free trial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;15:04 Welcome to Mark&lt;br&gt;18:00 Growing a community&lt;br&gt;20:08 Getting started with Home Automation&lt;br&gt;23:19 z-Wave - &lt;a href="http://www.z-wave.com/"&gt;www.z-wave.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;27:20 Types of devices - &lt;a href="http://www.cbus.com/"&gt;www.cbus.com&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.x10.com/"&gt;www.x10.com&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.csi3.com/"&gt;www.csi3.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;28:30 Marcos&lt;br&gt;35:01 Driver issues&lt;br&gt;37:55 Home Automation packages - &lt;a href="http://www.embeddedautomation.com/"&gt;www.embeddedautomation.com&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.homseer.com/"&gt;www.homseer.com&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.domia.eu/"&gt;www.domia.eu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;41:40 Security&lt;br&gt;48:21 Controlling lights&lt;br&gt;49:57 Power Saving&lt;br&gt;53:00 Media Center Software &lt;br&gt;55:00 Cat5 cable&lt;br&gt;59:34 &lt;a href="http://www.automatedhome.com/"&gt;AutomatedHome.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;1:04:00 &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3toGw1S6jE"&gt;Videos of the SmartHome Show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;01:05:00 Visiting the Monaco Grand Prix&lt;br&gt;01:08:00 Thanks to Mark &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img height=1 alt="" src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;amp;page=RSS:+The+Media+Center+Show+%23116+-+Mike+Garcen&amp;amp;referrer=" width=1 border=0&gt;&lt;img height=0px alt="" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=88469&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon" width=0px&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23121+-+Mark+McCall&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2262.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2262.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:13:20 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2262/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2262.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-09-06T11:13:20Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #120 - Andrew Cherry</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2245.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes it's a day early but I am working away and didn't want you to miss out!&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (16.9mb 49mins 02sec)  &lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png" align=right&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20070822_120.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;On this week show is Microsoft MVP and Media Center developer Andrew Cherry. Andrew made the trip to my office in Manchester and we talked about his new application &amp;quot;TV Library&amp;quot; (&lt;a href="http://www.digitallivingsolutions.co.uk/downloads/TvLibrary_1_0_0.zip"&gt;download a free beta&lt;/a&gt;), an application that expands the TV library functions of Media Center. We also talked about developing for Windows Media Center and contributing to the &lt;a href="http://discuss.mediacentersandbox.com/forums/default.aspx"&gt;MediaCenterSandbox forum&lt;/a&gt;. I have email in to the show and news items. &lt;p&gt;The Media Center Show with &lt;a href="http://www.orb.com/getorb/scs"&gt;Orb Networks&lt;/a&gt;, email the show: Show [at] TheDigitallifestyle.com  &lt;p&gt;Show Times:  &lt;p&gt;00:50 Coming up this week&lt;br&gt;01:50 Email - &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/podcast/archive/2007/08/16/the-media-center-show-119-richard-miller.aspx"&gt;Update on last weeks email&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;03:29 Email - Tell us your OEM experience&lt;br&gt;04:12 Email - Audio output and Extenders&lt;br&gt;08:05 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/extra/archive/2007/08/20/the-digital-lifestyle-com-video-show-5-sony-ux1-umpc.aspx"&gt;My Video review of Sony's UX1 UMPC&lt;/a&gt;, more videos coming soon&lt;br&gt;09:17 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/08/19/bluray-v-hd-dvd-my-take.aspx"&gt;My thoughts on Blu-ray v HD-DVD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;11:04 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/08/17/s1-digital-shipping-cablecard-soon.aspx"&gt;S1Digital offer CABLEcard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;11:43 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/08/20/tv-toolbox-beta-2.aspx"&gt;Updated TV Toolbox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;12:00 &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/archive/2007/08/20/august-27.aspx"&gt;Windows Home Server Blog&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/archive/2007/08/20/august-27.aspx"&gt;re-sizing partitions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;13:05 &lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;One Voice: Media Center Communicator&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/files/folders/downloads/entry2963.aspx"&gt;Download a free trial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;14:22 Welcome to Andrew&lt;br&gt;14:58 Getting in to Media Center development&lt;br&gt;18:54 Media Center box selling&lt;br&gt;19:00 MoreTV&lt;br&gt;22:41 What is &amp;quot;TV Library&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;26:00 Creating your own meta data&lt;br&gt;28:12 Viewing Recorded TV&lt;br&gt;29:54 &lt;a href="http://www.fjdrasch.com/v2/v2_frame.htm"&gt;Recorded TV Manager&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://babgvant.com/files/default.aspx"&gt;DVRMStoolbox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;32:00 Developing Media Center applications&lt;br&gt;34:00 Branding v looking like a Windows Media Center &lt;br&gt;38:29 Selling applications&lt;br&gt;38:55 &lt;a href="http://www.digitallivingsolutions.co.uk/downloads/TvLibrary_1_0_0.zip"&gt;Beta Download&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/196542.aspx"&gt;forum links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;40:39 &lt;a href="http://discuss.mediacentersandbox.com/forums/default.aspx"&gt;MediaCenterSandbox.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;46:00 The show will be taking a week off, back September 6th! &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img height=1 alt="" src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;amp;page=RSS:+The+Media+Center+Show+%23116+-+Mike+Garcen&amp;amp;referrer=" width=1 border=0&gt;&lt;img height=0px alt="" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=88469&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon" width=0px&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23120+-+Andrew+Cherry&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2245.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2245.entry</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:37:42 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2245/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2245.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-08-22T10:37:42Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Digital Lifestyle.com Video Show #5 - Sony UX1 UMPC</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2242.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/videos/TDL_Videoshow_20070820_05.wmv"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Watch the video in HQ WMV&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=180 src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/photos/media_center_setups/images/3192/425x319.aspx" width=240 align=right&gt;It's been a while since I did any videos, so here is the first of a couple I have coming out. &lt;br&gt;This show looks at &lt;a href="https://www.sonystyle.co.uk/SonyStyle/b2c/z_displayIFrame/(xcm=PCM_b2ccrmstandard&amp;amp;Z_OMNI_CID=14000282)/.do;jsessionid=(J2EE212955600)ID1515002850DB00005679089500908577End;saplb_*=(J2EE212955600)212955650?z_rp_display_in_iframe=/mimes/openAccess/promotion/promotion_vaioux_en_gb.jsp?cid=14000282"&gt;Sony's UX1 UMPC&lt;/a&gt; (Ultra Mobile PC). All my videos are posted on &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/extra/default.aspx"&gt;TheDigitalLifestyle.com&lt;/a&gt; had the video show has it's own &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/extra/rss.aspx"&gt;RSS feed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;It's a nice device with a 4.5&amp;quot; screen and slide out keyboard running  Windows Vista Business.&lt;br&gt;I didn't have much time to do the video so I shot down to a quite room at the office and captured this video, so the video is a little dark. Have a look at the UX1 in the &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/photos/media_center_setups/tags/Sony+UX1/default.aspx"&gt;photo gallery&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/videos/TDL_Videoshow_20070820_05.wmv"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Watch the video in HQ WMV&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;li&gt;Watch via Youtube: &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=prh_WwRORSQ"&gt;Part 1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=FzlBF-AzOKo"&gt;Part 2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;li&gt;Watch via MSN Soapbox &lt;a href="http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=c520f249-7a7a-4459-87e0-2dedcdff1f34"&gt;Part 1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=956011c4-c925-4d67-9b53-3238d806fc3f"&gt;Part 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a title="The Digital Lifestyle.com Video Show #5 (Part 1)" href="http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=c520f249-7a7a-4459-87e0-2dedcdff1f34"&gt;Video: The Digital Lifestyle.com Video Show #5 (Part 1)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a title="The Digital Lifestyle.com Video Show #5 Sony UX1 (Part2)" href="http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=956011c4-c925-4d67-9b53-3238d806fc3f"&gt;Video: The Digital Lifestyle.com Video Show #5 Sony UX1 (Part2)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Specs:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Windows Vista Business&lt;br&gt;32GB Flash Drive&lt;br&gt;4.5&amp;quot; Screen&lt;br&gt;Fingerprint reader&lt;br&gt;Wifi &amp;amp; Bluetooth&lt;br&gt;2 x Cameras&lt;br&gt;486g &lt;p&gt;Retailing around £1500 &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Sony"&gt;Sony&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/UX1"&gt;UX1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/UMPC"&gt;UMPC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/extra/rss.aspx"&gt;The Show RSS Feed&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/extra/archive/2007/08/20/the-digital-lifestyle-com-video-show-5-sony-ux1-umpc.aspx"&gt;Full Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Digital+Lifestyle.com+Video+Show+%235+-+Sony+UX1+UMPC&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2242.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2242.entry</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:16:05 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2242/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2242.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-08-21T10:16:05Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #119 - Richard Miller</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2229.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (16.6mb 48mins 21sec) &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20070816_119.mp3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png"&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vote for the show on &lt;a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45784#"&gt;Podcast Alley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://shots.snap.com/images/v2.17/t.gif"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20070816_119.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;This week Microsoft MVP Richard Miller joins me to explain how to integrate Windows Home Server with Windows Media Center. We talk about how to use Windows Home Server to store and share Recorded TV and recap on some of the features of Windows Home Server.&lt;br&gt;The guides Richard talks about in the interview can be found &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/thread/2608.aspx"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;I have email and blog comments (please keep them coming!), &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/default.aspx"&gt;forum posts&lt;/a&gt; and news items  &lt;p&gt;The Media Center Show with &lt;a href="http://www.orb.com/getorb/scs"&gt;Orb Networks&lt;/a&gt;, email the show: Show [at] TheDigitallifestyle.com  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/orblogotags.jpg"&gt; &lt;p&gt;Show Times: &lt;p&gt;00:48 Coming up this week&lt;br&gt;01:32 Email - Comments on last weeks show&lt;br&gt;04:34 Email - Extender Questions, how to share&lt;a href="http://themediacentershow.com/cs/forums/thread/1659.aspx"&gt; Recorded TV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;06:53 Microsoft release &lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979"&gt;The Performance and Reliability Pack &lt;/a&gt;and the &lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194"&gt;Compatibility and Reliability Pack &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;08:06 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/08/09/homeserver-com.aspx"&gt;Homeserver.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;09:32 Sony UX1 review coming soon&lt;br&gt;11:19 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/ian/archive/2007/08/10/vacancy-for-podcaster-still-open.aspx"&gt;Vacancy for a Podcaster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;12:06 &lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;One Voice: Media Center Communicator&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/files/folders/downloads/entry2963.aspx"&gt;Download a free trial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;13:10 Welcome to Richard&lt;br&gt;13:40 Getting in to Windows Media Center&lt;br&gt;14:50 Getting in to Windows Home Server&lt;br&gt;17:00 Features of Windows Home Server&lt;br&gt;19:43 Remote Access&lt;br&gt;20:28 Storing Data&lt;br&gt;24:39 Hardware &lt;br&gt;27:00 How can we use Windows Home Server to store Recorded TV, more info &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/thread/2608.aspx"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;32:17 DRM issues &lt;br&gt;33:14 Networking issues&lt;br&gt;35:06 Recording directly to Windows Home Server&lt;br&gt;40:38 I want an archive function&lt;br&gt;42:59 &lt;a href="http://www.asciiexpress.com/webguide/WebGuide4/Download/tabid/67/Default.aspx"&gt;Webguide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;44:10 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/thread/2608.aspx"&gt;Link to the forum post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;44:50 Thanks to Richard&lt;br&gt;45:00 Keep the email coming! &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img height=1 alt="" src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;amp;page=RSS:+The+Media+Center+Show+%23116+-+Mike+Garcen&amp;amp;referrer=" width=1 border=0&gt;&lt;img height=0px alt="" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=88469&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon" width=0px&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23119+-+Richard+Miller&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2229.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2229.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:30:08 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2229/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2229.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-08-16T11:30:08Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>Vacancy for Podcaster still open</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2222.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/podcast/archive/2007/06/24/want-to-host-your-own-podcast-or-write-a-blog-for-the-digital-lifestyle-com.aspx"&gt;I mentioned last month&lt;/a&gt; I am looking to add another podcast to TheDigitalLifestyle.com to compliment &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/podcast/default.aspx"&gt;The Media Center Show&lt;/a&gt;. It could be a show on Home Theater, or mobile devices. Anything that your passionate about. &lt;p&gt;So if your interested send me an email Ian [at] TheDigitalLifestyle.com and we can talk about the options. &lt;div style="padding-right:0px;display:inline;padding-left:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-top:0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Podcasting" rel=tag&gt;Podcasting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+Vacancy+for+Podcaster+still+open&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2222.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2222.entry</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:32:06 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2222/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2222.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-08-10T08:32:06Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #118 - Jason Dunn</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2208.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (23.1mb 1 Hour 9mins 1sec)  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20070809_118.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt;  - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;This week &lt;a href="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/"&gt;Digital Media Thoughts&lt;/a&gt; founder, blogger and Media Center enthusiast Jason Dunn joins me to talk about Windows Media Center, trouble with Album Art, Zune and why he scanned hundreds of album covers in to his system. &lt;p&gt;I have email and blog comments (please keep them coming!), &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/default.aspx"&gt;forum posts&lt;/a&gt; and news items  &lt;p&gt;The Media Center Show with &lt;a href="http://www.orb.com/getorb/scs"&gt;Orb Networks&lt;/a&gt;, email the show: Show [at] TheDigitallifestyle.com  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/orblogotags.jpg"&gt; &lt;p&gt;Show Times:  &lt;p&gt;00:49 Coming up this week&lt;br&gt;01:26 Send in your email&lt;br&gt;01:36 &lt;a href="http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2195.entry"&gt;Comments regarding V2 Extenders&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;02:48 What plugins can you not live with out, updated, &lt;a href="http://thegreenbutton.com/blogs/ians_digital/archive/2007/07/30/200241.aspx"&gt;see the comments&lt;/a&gt; and this &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/thread/3111.aspx"&gt;forum thread&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;04:40 &lt;a href="http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2194.entry"&gt;Case study  on Media Center's Showtime application&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;05:57 &lt;a href="http://www.squirrelstash.com/Screenshots.aspx"&gt;Squirrel Stash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;07:59 &lt;a href="http://blog.mediacentersandbox.com/WindowsMediaCenterSDK52NowAvailable.aspx"&gt;Updated Windows Media Center SDK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;09:30 &lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;One Voice: Media Center Communicator&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/files/folders/downloads/entry2963.aspx"&gt;Download a free trial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;10:43 Welcome to &lt;a href="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/"&gt;Jason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;11:20 Background on Jason&lt;br&gt;16:00 Pocket PC evolution &lt;a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/"&gt;Pocket PC Thoughts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;20:11 Do UMPCs meet the hipe?&lt;br&gt;21:00 Getting started with Windows Media Center&lt;br&gt;25:13 Experiences with Vista Media Center&lt;br&gt;29:00 Performances Issues &lt;br&gt;31:40 Video drivers&lt;br&gt;34:22 Upgrading&lt;br&gt;38:45 Building your own PC v buying off the shelf&lt;br&gt;42:20 Album Art in Media Center&lt;br&gt;50:10 &lt;a href="http://www.jasondunn.com/albumart/"&gt;Scanning 750 CD covers!&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;56:51 Zune and album art&lt;br&gt;59:07 Zune&lt;br&gt;1:03:00 New Zune's coming?&lt;br&gt;1:05:51 Thanks to Jason &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img height=1 alt="" src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;amp;page=RSS:+The+Media+Center+Show+%23116+-+Mike+Garcen&amp;amp;referrer=" width=1 border=0&gt;&lt;img height=0px alt="" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=88469&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon" width=0px&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23118+-+Jason+Dunn&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2208.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2208.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:47:15 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2208/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2208.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-08-09T11:47:15Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #116 - Mike Garcen</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2181.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (20.1mb 58mins 26sec)  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/audio/TDL_MediaCenter_20070726_116.mp3"&gt;Direct Download Link&lt;/a&gt;  - &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=217932939"&gt;Subscribe via iTunes&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMediaCenterShowPodcast"&gt;Subscribe via RSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;This week Mike Garcen Microsoft MVP, contributor to &lt;a href="http://www.missingremote.com/"&gt;MissingRemote.com&lt;/a&gt; and moderator at &lt;a href="http://www.thegreenbutton.com/"&gt;The Green Button&lt;/a&gt; joins me to talk about his community work with Media Center and his reviews of the various web streaming product for Windows Media Center. &lt;p&gt;I have email (please keep them coming!), &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/default.aspx"&gt;forum posts&lt;/a&gt; and news items  &lt;p&gt;The Media Center Show with &lt;a href="http://www.orb.com/getorb/scs"&gt;Orb Networks&lt;/a&gt;, email the show: Show [at] TheDigitallifestyle.com  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/orblogotags.jpg"&gt; &lt;p&gt;Show Times:&lt;br&gt;00:54 Coming up this week&lt;br&gt;01:46 Email - &lt;a href="http://www.mcedev.com/News.aspx?id=744daf2c-78a3-46d3-b1e7-8cf214d2d14f"&gt;Windows Media Center cookbook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;03:08 Trust 7 foot Media Center Remote (via &lt;a href="http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/4092/take_control_of"&gt;eHomeUpgrade&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br&gt;03:54 &lt;a href="http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/4092/take_control_of"&gt;Chris Lanier's guide to Codecs&lt;/a&gt;, also listen to &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/podcast/archive/2007/04/04/the-media-center-show-102-bryan-socha-on-decoders.aspx"&gt;this show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;04:24 &lt;a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/c/0/9c0ef09a-585f-4e20-a605-9f225cc11721/WHS_GettingStarted.pdf"&gt;Download a getting started guide for Windows Home Server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;04:50 &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/3101/ShowThread.aspx#3101"&gt;Forum Thread - Customizing folders in Media Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;05:52 &lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;One Voice: Media Center Communicator&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/files/folders/downloads/entry2963.aspx"&gt;Download a free trial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;07:07 Welcome to &lt;a href="http://www.missingremote.com/"&gt;Mike&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;07:40 Getting started with Media Center&lt;br&gt;10:45 Where we are now with Vista&lt;br&gt;13:55 Sports Lounge in Vista Media Center&lt;br&gt;16:30 Mike's favorite plug ins&lt;br&gt;20:00 Searching for solutions to problems&lt;br&gt;24:07 &lt;a href="http://www.missingremote.com/"&gt;MissingRemote.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;26:02 &lt;a href="http://missingremote.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=1367&amp;amp;Itemid=224"&gt;Mike's streaming software reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;31:00 Sage TV&lt;br&gt;33:48 Webguide&lt;br&gt;37:03 Orb&lt;br&gt;39:53 Cyberlink&lt;br&gt;44:39 Baseball and Sling&lt;br&gt;47:24 &lt;a href="http://www.missingremote.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=1695&amp;amp;Itemid=166"&gt;Problems caused by recordings going missing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;54:49 Thanks to Mike&lt;br&gt;55:19 My book - &lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/r.ashx?2"&gt;Using Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center is still available&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/44/ShowForum.aspx"&gt;Music by Ian Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onev.com/mcc/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/onevoicebanner.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows Media Center"&gt;Windows Media Center&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcasts"&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3933948523345100457&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Media+Center+Show+%23116+-+Mike+Garcen&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=iandixon.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=iandixon"&gt;</description><comments>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2181.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2181.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:24:21 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2181/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2181.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-07-26T11:24:21Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>The Media Center Show #115 Kevin Tofel on UMPCs</title><link>http://iandixon.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!36983156CAA83EA9!2173.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By Ian Dixon (20.6mb 59mins 56sec)  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://thedigitallifestyle.com/images/albumcoversmall.png"&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http