Thread: windows xp media center edition

nice idea...wont work. it is an hp computer im trying to get this from. They dont use a cd, the but the backup image on a hidden partition. now getting to that abckup partition is not a problem, but there is two issues with that....first, the image uses some special program to extract it and the second problem is that even if i could extract it...it will not install on any pc other than that hp...it can sense the computers hardware.

anyways...im at a loss, any other ideas?

...im at a loss, any other ideas?

one word.... newsgroups

Originally posted by mp3hombre
tech Tv did a review of it on arecent episode of fresh gear. I believe the conclusion was "a step in the right direction, but not there yet" whatever that means.

means they have the right idea but still have ALOT of things to do.

the screenys look fairly nice..... but if its anything like windows media player it will sound cruddy, and be another piece of bloatware....


still, might be good for some ideas along the line I spose....

an insider at microsoft has informed me that although it is a nice piece of software, you need specialized hardware out there (it only works on a very small range of expensive video cards) and would be far overkill for anything that we wanted.

Seriously, for what we need it for, we can easily make something that will look similar, be much smaller and do everything that we need.

(It also doesn't even come on the normal set of MSDN CDs, you need the billion dollar/year enterprise MSDN edition to get it)

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