HP Exits Media Center Business

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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Works? HP MC got panned hard by Washington Post.

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I own an HP Media Center and it works great.

Rob Pegoraro was much less than impressed by this line of machines,

under XP and Mepis does better than Vista on newer versions. Other than replacing the OS, I wonder what you did to get better results out of XP or Vista than the above cited articles.

That aside, this is just business.

Sure, it's bad business to sell things that don't work.