Re: Gateway upgrade to MCE 2005 ?

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From: Nigel Barker (nigel_at_hp.com)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:11:52 GMT

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:55:05 -0700, "Croken2542"
<Croken2542@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Thanks Bob for your reply,
>But i am just asking since i cant get the upgrade, does anyone know a good
>Media Center Replacement ? Since Gateway is refusing to pass along the
>upgrade. If i would have known Microsoft was going to do this, I would have
>stuck with the Linux system and Mac, this was the reason I went back to
>microsoft o/s, cause i can see the future in this kind of system "Media
>Center "..

There are many other applications similar to MCE. I am forever saying that MCE
is not the only game in town. It's very good for some things but other
applications give much better support for instance to DVB-S or DVB-T or support
of 101 different video formats or more hardware. Some applications are
commercial although none costs more than about $50. Other applications are
freeware. Most run on Windows although MythTV is an honourable exception on
Linux. Most have a time limited trial for free download. Try them out & see
which you prefer.

The following list is not exhaustive:-

BeyondTV www.snapstream.com
SageTV & SageRecorder www.sage.tv
Showshifter www.showshifter.com
GB-PVR http://www.gbpvr.com/
Media Portal http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/
MythTV http://www.mythtv.org/ 

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

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