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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."

6 of 99 comments (clear)

  1. HP has anal sex with chimpanzees by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Interesting, but does it run linux? Not anymore...HP cancels your warranty if you install the Linucksez.

  2. Re:Correct spelling.... by Starburnt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ewe shore a boot fat?

  3. Re:I bought one of their first Media Center PCs by rubycodez · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and they said it so very loud you heard it after they hung up. That's one big-ass exclamation point.

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