Videos tagged with Windows Media Center

Delivering compelling content to television sets around the Digital Home presents new design challenges for consumer content. Join us to learn more about best practices for creating new "ten foot" user interfaces for experiences on Windows Media Center and on Xbox 360. Brian Kralyevich Microsoft Brian has more than 16 years of experience in design, architecture, rich media and brand design. Pri...

Media Center for Windows Vista gives you new ways of delivering compelling entertainment to the Digital Home. In this technical session, learn how to create rich, engaging content and services for the home, using DHTML, Windows Presentation Foundation, and the new Windows Media Center Presentation Layer. Also, see how you can take advantage of Xbox 360 to deliver those services to multiple room...

Checklist for a new PC. Hard Drive Speed vs. Size, SmallNetBuilder, Roll your own backup, What does Gigahertz mean? New PC? Check out Make the Most of Your New PC, from PCMag.com for a great list of things to do after you get that new PC out of the box. Andrew's looking to soup up the Atom processor in his new Netbook... we'd max out the memory, and update all your drives since you've already d...

Don't have a lot of money for a new Home Theater PC? No problem. Mythbox is open source, free and runs great on a cheap PC. It's perfect for a HTPC if you're on a budget! MythTV? MythBox? Having a PC as part of your home theater is great, but didn't Systm cover this back in Episode 2? We sure did, but things have changed quite a bit, since then! If it's new to you, check out the Wikipedia descr...

Come learn about new interactive ad concepts that leverage the power of the Windows Media Center platform to provide an experience that goes well beyond the thirty second video ad and pre-rolls. In this session we cover the ad concepts that are being developed by the Media Center team for the 10ft space and discuss the rationale and assumptions behind them. We take a look at the advertising ben...