Microsoft: Your Digital Content, in Any Room in the House, at Any Time
Jan 9, 2004 2:51 PM,
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft’s plan to have
Windows Media Center Extender devices remotely use XP Media Center
content (i.e., digital music, photos, movies, and recorded TV) is a
good strategy that will nicely obviate the one huge complaint I have
with Media Center PCs–they’re too obtrusive in rooms such as the den.
(After using a Media Center PC in my den for 2 years, I feel reasonably
sure that the machine isn’t a viable solution for most people.
Nevertheless, I can’t live without it.) Under the new scheme, which
will become reality this fall (and require a new MCE update–don’t
worry, it’s a software-only update), users will be able to put
inexpensive, quiet, and reliable Windows Media Center Extender devices
in the rooms that have nice TVs and stereo systems and leave those
ugly, loud PCs back in the home office in which they belong.
