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HP Exits Media Center Business

Posted by kdawson on from the pioneer-with-arrows dept.

MCE writes "The first big adapter of Microsoft's Media Center Edition is quietly dropping MCE. HP is ceasing production of its Digital Entertainment Center, the only real success story for Media Center PCs in a living-room form factor. As the first company to embrace Microsoft's MCE, at a time when the platform was still half-baked, HP was simply spent by the time Vista rolled around. Now the company will put its resources into MediaSmart, a new line of TVs with a digital media adapter (not an MCE) built in. HP insists that its departure is not a statement about the viability of the Media Center platform."

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  1. Strangest business decision ever... by copponex · · Score: 4, Funny

    "HP insists that its departure is not a statement about the viability of the Media Center platform." Oh, yeah. I was making tons of money selling this product, but I've decided to stop. Not because it says anything about the profitability of the product I was selling, but, you know... just because. I'm not licking Microsoft boots either - let's face it, that's kind of an oxymoron.

    (phone rings... whispers... "$150 per copy of Vista?!")

    Ahem... on second thought, I respectfully withdraw that last statement.
  2. Rumor has it... by Shawn+Parr · · Score: 4, Funny

    that on their new systems changing the channel voids the warranty.

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