Windows XP Media Center Edition Review

Harpreet writes "It took 2 months but someone finally published an informative review of the new Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system. AnandTech's review has got everything you could want, including pictures galore. It looks like the folks who make the Linux based Video Disk Recorder have a new standard to live up to." Update: 01/08 21:06 GMT by T : Read on below for a different (Free software, CD-based) approach to computer-A/V integration.

Trunkboy writes "There are a lot of PVR projects out there (Freevo, TiVo, Dave&Dina, etc... but MoviX is a little different. MoviX is an entire distribution (linux of course) that is designed to play avi/mpg/mp3/etc files from a computer. Upgrading is easy, because it boots from a CD! Videos/music can be stored on a local hard drive, or on a network share. This project is incredible, but needs more developers. Stop in and give Roberto a hand -- MoviX shows some great potential!"

Comments

Re:MS wins again

[Eric Damron]

Oh, I see. You're saying that open source software is never top notch.

Nice troll.

Truly, these are the end times

[Wee]

Rev. 6:12.5: "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood, and Mig forsook all that was TiVo."

-B

Offtopic: Re:Do Not Remove

[glenstar]

Do you realize that you are wasting 100 precious bytes in your signature?

Mind you, I felt inclinded to post this even though it will undo my moderations. I guess my wife is right... I am a no-good geek. ;-)

Re:well I'll give them this...

[Blkdeath]

2K does have the same code-base as 98, I should I know used to do tech support for it.

I'm afraid you're mistaken. Aside from the fact that doing tech support for a product does not give you intricate knowledge of the internal function of the system; the Windows 2000 operating system is the Windows NT kernel (originating from Microsoft and IBM's partnered development of OS/2) with the Windows 95/98 interface, with some enhancements, new filesystem support (NTFS is reminiscant of HPFS), and multi-user support enhancements over NT's kludged multi-user capabilities. (The NT kernel, their user interface(s), and their filesystems were not designed initially for multi-user support).

I'd quote history pages for you, but the resources on the Internet are so plentiful I'd just be seen as karma whoring.

XP took the kernel and rebuilt it by hand, taking out the extra thousand lines of commented out coding as well as unneeded subs.

Apart from the blatant contradiction of this statement (if they re-wrote it from scratch, what did they "remove"?) - how are we to believe you've come aquainted with this information?

Re:Well

[slipgun]

Moderation Totals: Troll=6, Redundant=1, Insightful=4, Interesting=4, Overrated=4, Underrated=5, Total=24.

Wow, the moderators truly are on crack.