Tag: WINDOWS-MEDIA-CENTER

Hulu Desktop is a pretty nifty application that lets you find and watch Hulu video content on a home theater PC using a media center remote control without a keyboard. But if you already have a home theater PC connected to your TV, you may want to integrate Hulu Desktop with your other media center software. Here's a little trick that will add a Hulu icon to Windows Vista Media Center that makes ...

People have been hacking together ways to watch streaming videos from Netflix using Windows Media Center since early last year. But now Microsoft and Netflix have rolled out an official Netflix application for Windows Vista Media Center. In other words, Netflix subscribers can browse through the 12,000 streaming titles available in the Netflix "watch instantly" library and watch them from the ...

The developer of SecondRun.tv, a plugin for Windows Media Center that lets you watch videos from Hulu and other network TV web sites with a remote control instead of a mouse has developed a first public beta. The plugin works with Windows Vista and Windows 7, but there are still a few kinks to work out. While it's easy to browse for movies in full screen mode, when you click a video it may not ...

Hulu is probably the best (legal) web site for finding full length streaming TV episodes and movies. But there's one thing I've been craving ever since Hulu first launched: an easy way to watch Hulu videos on my TV from the comfort of my couch. Zinc and Boxee have both offered solutions. But Boxee is still in Alpha, and right now it's only publicly available for Mac and Linux users, although a ...

Update: Turns out Boxee for Windows is still in private alpha. See the comments below. I've got two good pieces of news regarding media center application Boxee. First up, it looks like the Windows version of the app has come out of private alpha and is now available for anyone to download. Second, a third party developer has come up with a nifty trick for getting Boxee to work with Windows ...

TVtonic is a Windows application for finding, watching, and downloading online video. The software can be integrated with Windows Media Center, which makes catching episodes of RocketBoom just as easy as recording episodes of The Office. But for financial reasons, Wavexpress, the company behind TVTonic has decided to retire the service. If you've already installed TvTonic, you can still use it ...

In case you hadn't heard, Microsoft is officially pulling back the curtain on Windows 7 today. And while the Windows taskbar, Window behavior, and gadget/widget engine have been overhauled, so has the Windows Media Center interface. Windows Media Center is a built-in application for accessing music, movies, photos, and live TV (if your PC has a TV tuner card) using a 10-foot interface rather ...

Once upon a time if you wanted to (legally) download Hollywood movies or TV shows, you turned to sites like MovieLink and CinemaNow. With all the attention focused on Apple, Amazon, Joost, and Netflix these days, we kind of forgot that these companies still existed. And then we got a friendly email from CinemaNow letting us know that starting today you could access the service through Windows ...

Microsoft may have added "Internet TV" to Vista Media Center last year, but all you get right now are selected clips from MSN Video. If you want to watch YouTube, MSN Soapbox, and DailyMotion videos on your Windows Media Center system, you might want to check out Yougle, a third party plugin for Vista Media Center. Yougle lets you search the sites we mentioned, plus Flickr, Yahoo! Music, and ...

Facebook raised some controversy over plans to broadcast users personal information like movie ticket purchases and travel arrangements. But the truth is that many Facebook users are perfectly happy to let the world know what they're up to through frequent status updates. If you're the kind of person who doesn't like to go to work, sleep, or the bathroom without changing your Facebook status, ...

If you have Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate editions, you've got Windows Media Center. The software makes it easier to watch movies, listen to music, access online media, or even watch and record live TV (if your PC has a TV tuner) without holding your nose six inches from your computer display. In fact, Windows Media Center works best when your PC is plugged into your television set, not a ...

Developer Lauri Taimila is working on an intriguing new Linux media center application called Entertainer that right now looks a lot like Apple's Front row but could eventually take on MythTV and Windows Media Center. Right now there are two major limitations to Entertainer: It does not support recording television programs It's not actually available for download yet. The second problem ...

While Windows Vista may have been PC World's biggest disappointment of 2007, but it does have a few nice features. It's pretty to look at, and Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate both pack Windows Media Center, an awesome interface for accessing your movies, music, and other media in full-screen mode, preferably while sitting on your couch 10 feet away from your TV/monitor. But ...

TiVo, the company that has become pretty much synonymous with the idea of the digital video recorder plans to create a PC version of the software it uses on set top boxes. The company is partnering with Nero to develop the software. Up until recently, TiVo's Linux-based software was designed to run only on TiVo-branded boxes. But over the past year TiVo has been partnering with cable companies ...

Microsoft is rolling out the public beta of Internet TV for Windows Vista Media Center tomorrow. If you've got a machine running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate, a new option should pop up inside of your media center interface, cleverly titled "Internet TV." At launch, there will be 100 hours of programming available from MSN Video. The service is free, but ad-supported, ...