Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Nov 2006 21:31 UTC
"Just as extensions make Firefox better, so do plug-ins add extra goodness to Windows XP Media Center Edition. For the uninitiated, MCE provides DVR and other multimedia features wrapped in an attractive 10-foot interface. Armed with a couch and a remote, you can record TV shows, pause live TV, view photo slideshows, listen to your music collection, tune in FM radio stations, and so on. I am unabashedly in love with MCE. It's the one Microsoft product I consider just about perfect, which is why it's the heart of my home entertainment system. With these eight plugs-ins, most of which are free, you can trick out your MCE PC like never before."
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2006-01-10
Yeah, except when people decide they'd rather have MCE on a computer they built for a Media Center Edition instead of their Laptop (which why a Laptop would bother is beyond me), then buy a separate license for their Laptop of normal XP.
This is perfectly legal as per the license agreements, but the problem is that MCE doesn't support that many TV tuners. MythTV supports all of the ones that Linux + V4l support, which is quite a lot of them.
I still wish though that manufacturers would start selling mini-PCI TV tuner cards. This way people could build very small HTPC computers, rather than only selling them to OEMs.