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• Windows Media Center Registry Tweaks

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition on Jul 08 2008, 11:25 AM

  Filed under: Xbox 360, Windows Media Center, Media Center Extenders, Registry, Tweaks

  I was re-configuring my Windows Media Center the other day (don’t ask) and I wanted to adjust the “skip forward” interval to effectively skip through all the commercials in the average commercial break. As far as I can tell, Microsoft never updated the
  

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• Netflix for Vista Media Center (and Xbox 360)

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition on Jul 08 2008, 11:24 AM

  Filed under: Xbox 360, Windows Media Center, Media Center Extenders

  There’s no need to wait for Netflix and Microsoft to officially ink an Xbox 360 deal. Yesterday, Lifehacker posted details of a new add-in for Vista Media Center, called vmcNetflix , that brings a plethora of Netflix features into Media Center, and consequently
  

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• Hulu Coming to Vista Media Center?

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition on Jun 23 2008, 11:11 AM

  Filed under: Xbox 360, Windows Vista, Windows Media Center

  Hulu is my favorite video sites on the Internet. Why? Because I can watch almost all of my favorite shows for free, with far less advertising than television. The problem with the site is, if I want to watch it on my Vista Media Center PC, I have to go
  

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• Disneyland’s “Innoventions Dream Home” By HP & Microsoft

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition on Jun 16 2008, 08:10 AM

  Filed under: Zune, Xbox 360, Windows Media Center, Windows Home Server, Surface Computing, HP

  I was the first tech news site to break this story a while back, and I’m glad to finally see this come to fruition. Microsoft has teamed with Disneyland, HP, Life|Ware, and Taylor Morrison to combine Microsoft’s “ Home of the Future ” with the HP MediaHome
  

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• Internet TV, V2 Extenders Coming to Windows Vista Media Center

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition on Sep 05 2007, 06:38 PM

  Filed under: Xbox 360, Windows Vista, Windows Media Center

  Josh of WindowsConnected fame points out a monster Media Center-related press release today. In it, we find out that Media Centers with quad-CableCARD tuners are coming, as well as the V2 Extenders (finally!). But the big news comes in the following paragraph
  

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