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Microsoft Bringing TV to Xbox

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-about-time dept.

grazzy writes "Microsoft is set to release its Windows Media Center Extender for Xbox mid-November. The device will allow you to view recorded and downloaded media content stored on your PC via your Xbox.""

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  1. MS is getting back at the hackers by bigjnsa500 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    MS is finally getting back at the hackers now by reverse engineering Xbox Media Center and provided it directly from MS. Who says MS never listens?

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  2. Its about time by visionsofmcskill · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Hardly a surprise here, Microsoft is gearing up to compete directly with the TIVO DVR market with a product that will have a huge market penetration, that onboard harddrive isnt for nothing.

    Combine that with their online music offerings, and even a subscription service such as an enhanced XBOX live and DVD playback, and youve got the Windows Media Center in homes all across the world on an infrastructure that's already highly controlled.

    While Nintendo and Sony have been banking hard on cell technology and other gamer focused add-ons, MS is covering the do it all, in every home aspect, and they will win if allowed to do so.

    one of Sony's main driving forces for playstation adoption (1 and 2)... was the inclusion of a cd player or dvd player... an unecesary add-on as far as games go, but a strikingly powerfull one as far as extra features go.

    If nintendo/sony dont come up with their own media center functions, they will find themselves eclipised by MS very quickly despite their better game focus.

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  3. Rube Goldberg-ish by MooseByte · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Microsoft is gearing up to compete directly with the TIVO DVR market with a product that will have a huge market penetration"

    That is, for those who purchase/own an Xbox, a Windows Media Center edition machine, and this new gadget on top of it all.

    Or I can just get a TiVO? Cripes! Who wants three MS boxes chained together (cross your fingers) just to get TiVO functionality?

    Smells like another money-losing venture for MS.

  4. Re:Still not excited by mog007 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Two words: Fair Use.

    Beat up by just four letter... DMCA.

    Land of the free, yeah, sure.

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