Tag: MCE

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 ...

Windows Media Center includes a decent music player for songs stored on your PC. And you can use plugins like RadioTime to listen to pretty much any streaming radio station you can find. But until recently there was no good way to listen to songs from music recommendation and streaming service Last.fm. Well, now there is. MceFM is aplugin for Windows Vista Media Center that lets you stream music ...

Sure, Vista Media Center's only been officially available for a few months. But onwards and upwards. Microsoft is already prepping the next version of Windows Media Center, which may or may not be codenamed Fiji. And the company is looking for beta testers. Over the last few years, Microsoft has had a track record of releasing new versions of Windows Media Center every year or two. While Windows ...

Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) is great, and so is Apple's iTunes, but together they are so much better. Honestly now, what good is home entertainment if you can't get all your iTunes music to blare through those super-high-end speakers and surround-sound with the expensive DACs you got with last years tax return? It makes iTunes music somewhat pointless if you can't set off car alarms a ...

File this under why-didn't-I-think-of-that: YouTubeMCE is an add-on that integrates YouTube with Windows Media Center Edition. It lets you browse, search, and view YouTube videos without leaving your couch. It lets you watch videos in full-screen mode, but as lousy as those videos look on your 19" monitor, don't expect them to look fantastic on your 52" one. YouTubeMCE is free. (As pointed out in ...

If you have a Windows Media Center Edition PC, it may frustrate you to no end that you are unable to move your video from that PC onto another one. Unlike the very good MythTV for Linux (free), and SnapStream's Beyond TV 3 for Windows (not free) Microsoft does not use standard AVI format for its videos, intentionally making it harder to transport them. This is, of course, because Microsoft is so ...