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The new Windows Media Center Extender Kit Announced

PC, Xbox

8th January 2004, 6:36pm
Shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, in his keynote address Bill Gates with David Alles from the Media Center Team presented what is called Windows Media Center Extender(MCX) kit and Windows Media Extender.

Windows Media Center Extender(MCX) kit

Gates unveiled the Xbox® Media Center Extender Kit, which combines a dedicated remote control with software that extends the Windows XP Media Center Edition experience throughout the home, allowing consumers to enjoy music, recorded television and photos from their PC using their Xbox game console.

Windows Media® Center Extender Technologies

Windows Media® Center Extender Technologies, which allows the Windows XP Media Center Edition PC to be used as an entertainment hub for the home. With a Windows Media Center Extender product, people who use a Media Center PC to listen to music, record television shows, view photos or download movies on demand can enjoy these experiences on any television in the home, even if the PC is being used at the same time by another family member elsewhere in the home.

Windows Media® Center Extender Products

The envisioned product running the Windows Media® Center Extender Technology would run on a device that you want to have in your stereo component as opposed to most of the PCs today. It is thin, it is completely silent. There is no fan so it's going to fit in there great. It also has a green button so that you can tell it's part of the Windows Media Center family. It hooks up to your television or a set of AV equipment and then it connects back to your Media Center PC through a wired or wireless connection to be able to get not just all the content from that Media Center PC but that same seamless, all in one, great interface of the Media Center PC.

Partnering with Alienware Corp., Dell, Gateway Inc., HP, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Tatung Co. and Wistron Corp., to develop new televisions and set-top boxes based on this technology and bring them to the market sometime in 2004.

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by Robert Gardner