fu5i0n Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Microsoft is getting official with its Windows Media Center Internet TV feature, which is set to go live in beta fashion tomorrow morning. According to Microsoft, users of Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate will soon be able to download a simple update that will enable them to "enjoy a range of television and video content on their PCs and TV sets [with a Media Center Extender of some sort] without a TV tuner in their PC." The streaming content will all be ad-supported "by an advertising platform provided by YuMe," which means that you'll be getting it gratis. The programming reportedly "comes from MSN Video," and just over 100 hours of it will be available when the beta begins. To whet your appetite, a few notables that will be available are "full episodes of TV shows such as 'Arrested Development,' full-length music concerts by artists such as Chris Cornell, Snoop Dogg, Elton John, Pink, John Mayer and the Pussycat Dolls, movie trailers, news segments from MSNBC, and sports clips from FOX Sports." http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/27/microso...ternet-tv-beta/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Sounds good, hopefully they'll have soem real content as oposed to Joost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majortom1981 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Sounds good, hopefully they'll have soem real content as oposed to Joost. Joost has some cool things like transformers episodes and some cool music videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[bear] Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Ah, I love Windows Media Center. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smigit Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 woohoo arrested development. I have all the box sets but for those that don't I really recommend you check them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJLunacy Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Arrested Development rocks! Now I can watch the last season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMELTN Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 can't wait to check it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad_onion Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 i wonder how long before this is avaliable ANYWHERE in europe. im guessing ten years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Joost has some cool things like transformers episodes and some cool music videos. not in europe it doesn't and Transformers and what is it, Gi Joe ? is the only good stuff they have there The rest is left overs from MTV, cheap documentaries that suck to bad for Discovery or BGC to buy them, bad music videos and old sports stuff, like like races and boxing games from 2005... seriusly... The only things worth watching there as I mentioned above aren't available here. Well I believe NGC is also availale in the US. It's strage how they take so long to get good tv and online tv content to europe though. I mean over here you can actually air stuff without filtering out swear words, blur out company names and make sure to delete any scene that could show part of a nake boob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzoislost Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Reminds me of the 98 days and the Web TV that was included in the 98 plus! pack :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toology Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Reminds me of the 98 days and the Web TV that was included in the 98 plus! pack :p Yeah, that was ahead of its time. I'm going to look forward to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoInTheMix Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 I'ts out at connect: https://connect.microsoft.com/content/conte...p;wa=wsignin1.0 source: << spam >> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reflexion Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Anyone got it to work yet? i can't find where i'm supposed to 'opt in' for Windows Media Center updates on my Home Premium edition...and there's definitely no link in my media center already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richmc Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Go to the link BoInTheMix posted. Feature was already there without getting a new update. Have to say so far I am not impressed. Video quality is alot lower than what I expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null_ Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Joost has some cool things like transformers episodes and some cool music videos. Yeah, but the rest of the content is horrible junk. Let's hope that this provides a decent internet television experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pupik Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 At this time, Windows Media Center internet tv is only available to users in the United States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toology Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Makes sense. It's still a beta and Microsoft would have to negotiate terms with every content rights holder/distributer in other countries if it wanted to launch this globally. It was better for them to push out what they could, where they could to get development going rather than wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argi Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 At this time, Windows Media Center internet tv is only available to users in the United States. Failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic2k Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 I'm in Australia and ive just got access to it but just have no content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evolution Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 It only says: "Sorry, there is no Internet TV content available for Canada." Since the OS country is set to the United States... I guess it determined this from my host address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingroach Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 does anyones stream buffers a lot?.. I tries arrested developement and it seems to be buffering a lot.. I dont think its internet spped cause I have 5mbps cable.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMELTN Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 does anyones stream buffers a lot?.. I tries arrested developement and it seems to be buffering a lot.. I dont think its internet spped cause I have 5mbps cable.. yeap mine buffers ALOT, and the sound is horrible at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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