Windows Media Center For Set-top Boxes

Written by Alan Friday, 30 April 2010 08:00

Windows Embedded has just announced some big news!  Windows Media Center will now be available for “… set-top boxes (STBs), connected media devices (CMDs), and TVs for consumers.”

This is something I have been talking about for some time.  Media Center is so much more capable than any of the cable or satellite set-top boxes currently out there.  It’s better than TiVo as well.  Microsoft should have pushed this years ago.  A simple TV ad showing what Media Center can do and asking “Can your DVR do this?” would blow people away.  The integration of pictures, music and online video along with recorded TV is something I think a lot of people want and don’t know they can have.  From the screenshots it appears it even has an “app store”.

I hope Microsoft really pushes this.  It can be big.

Alan

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