{"id":656,"date":"2004-12-07T11:23:28","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T10:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=656"},"modified":"2004-12-07T11:23:28","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T10:23:28","slug":"thanx-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"Thanx Bill !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice of Bill to mention his Windows XP is soooo complete. Users couldn&#8217;t play DVD movies with their Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro, out of the box. Even though they paid a premium price for the computer with DVD-ROM player and the Windows XP package. Luckily, any DVD program will do. It&#8217;s either on the DVD movie disc itself, or sometimes it&#8217;s included in the DVD-ROM retail package.<br \/>\nThen comes the new <strong>complete<\/strong> home entertainment (direct quote from microsoft.com) system from Microsoft. Windows Media Center Edition 2005. Essentially it&#8217;s XP Pro with a new skin and frontpage to interact better with a TV screen and remote control. So you can have a multimedia center in your room using your computer linked to a TV screen. Sounds reasonably nice, right ? Record TV, get the TV listing from the internet, timeshift watching, music, pictures etc etc.<br \/>\nSo, here I am, finishing the first Windows MCE PC, hardware and software installs without a hitch. Then comes the TV testing. Decoder error. And I have to deliver this system tomorrow. And it&#8217;s 17.38.<br \/>\nSolution ? Well, a closer look at the Hauppage website (for the TV card) already mentioned this, though it&#8217;s not of much help. Digging further reveals what we&#8217;ve lived through earlier. Except this time, not any DVD program will do. A whole arsenal of programs have already been installed to no avail (WinDVD 4 &#038; 5 &#038; 6, PowerDVD 4 &#038; 5) (everytime followed by a reboot, an uninstall and another reboot), and finally, I came across PowerDVD 6. And it works. (I&#8217;m talking demo versions of course, I wouldn&#8217;t dare downloading illegal Deluxe versions).<br \/>\nMoral of this story ? Complete is a dangerous word. Not only did you buy an expensive incomplete Windows MCE version, you&#8217;re in a whole lot of danger of buying the wrong extra DVD program.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice of Bill to mention his Windows XP is soooo complete. Users couldn&#8217;t play DVD movies with their Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro, out of the box. Even though they paid a premium price for the computer with DVD-ROM player and the Windows XP package. Luckily, any DVD program will do. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}