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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 TweakMCE PowerToy for Windows Vista, but WMC guru...

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 your Xbox 360. It’s the same concept I...

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 out of the 10-foot experience, and use my keyboard...

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 into the “ Innoventions Dream Home ” at Disneyland...

Microsoft may have thrown in the towel on HD-DVD, but they still believe that HDi which is very similar to Silverlight) is better than BDJ. So Microsoft is making the HD-DVD Emulator available for free . Not only that, but anyone who has already bought it will get a full refund. Could this mean that...

At their GDC '08 Keynote, Microsoft showed off Zauri , a "top-down shooter" built using XNA Game Studio... running on a Zune 2. Microsoft's Chris Satchell did the demo, and he said that games would be portable across the Microsoft entertainment ecosystem, "from Windows to Xbox to Zune." This is fantastic...

The week after I got my Xbox 360 back from the repair depot the first time I got an RROD , Microsoft admitted that there was a problem, and announced a program to repair defective Xbox 360 consoles . Supposedly they replaced my console with a new one, but I don't think my new one had the fix they implemented...

WARNING: The audio in the linked video is NSFW. I just came across this post on Joystiq about the problem of trash talk on Xbox Live. Well, the "trash" part is a real understatement. I have a gay stepbrother, and I find it extremely offensive. Now, I'm not going to say that video games themselves are...

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: The number of content providers delivering...

Well, my Memorial Day Halo 3 Fragfest plans just bit the dust. I just went to sit down and play an hour of the world's most awesomest game beta before heading over to my girlfriend's parents house for dinner, and I just got the 3-light "F-You!" from my Xbox 360. Now I am wishing that I had traded my...