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If this simply continues the policy of bug fixes r...

2006-01-30T04:58:00.000-08:00

If this simply continues the policy of bug fixes require a new platform, then I guess any bugs in WMP-Vista will have to wait another 5 years to be addressed. And didn't Jim Alchin indicate through this blog that an update would come to WMP 10 in 2005?

Perhaps that might give you a little incentive to ...

2006-01-26T06:03:00.000-08:00

Perhaps that might give you a little incentive to upgrade to Vista. Can't imagine Microsoft wouldn't want that or anything now.

I keep hearing from Windowsmedia guys that fixes f...

2006-01-26T03:43:00.000-08:00

I keep hearing from Windowsmedia guys that fixes for WMP10 are going into WMP11 but if that is only available on Vista then the fixes are barely credible. A huge number of naive users are going to suffer from WMP10 bugs for a long time until they can get Vista.

I'm also waiting to see if any library bugs in particular are actually addressed in v11 as they got precious little attention going from v9 to v10.

Thomas, love your writing, always interesting. I'm...

2006-01-07T12:30:00.000-08:00

Thomas, love your writing, always interesting. I'm the same 2-million song anonymous poster from the Gates key note speech post.

IMHO, for the non-gamer crowd, MS should release an equally featured extender, with a twist, the ATI OCUR tuner built in. They could also, obviuosly, release a similar unit for the DirectTV integrated experience. I'm not sure they have the technology there yet, but my expectation is that devices like the recently announced Belkin UWB Usb 2.0 device would be a catalyst to make this type of hardware combination possible. A device like this would immediately make all of those tunerless MCE machines sitting in home offices worth their weight in gold. Not to mention that it might spur Vista upgrades on machines that otherwise may have remained on XP MCE.

Unfortunately, i think it might be difficult to justify building such a capable device with tuner built in, without built in guide functionality. In which case, you'll see sub par comcast guide/integration or similarly pathetic directv software.

I guess though Dave, why would anyone buy a $600 L...

2006-01-07T08:53:00.000-08:00

I guess though Dave, why would anyone buy a $600 LG extender when you can get an XBox 360 for less money and it will stream HDTV, something that I don't think the LG DVR does (I may be wrong on this). While certainly Microsoft could try and offer a cheaper standalone extender I think that it would be tough for them to save any more money on the unit. I'm not sure that there is much that you could strip out of the XBox 360 to make it cheaper to manufacture. You are going to need a high power processer one way or the other to sream high def. The older generation extender boxes are much less powerful and thus I think less expensive to manufacture. To stream HDTV takes more power I suspect and thus cost.

Microsoft is smart though too and they probably have done market research and have had analysts crunch the numbers and while not making as much by selling services and games to non gamers I do suspect that in aggregate they will still come out ahead on converting some previous non gamers to future gamers.

At least one other flavor of extender already exis...

2006-01-07T08:32:00.000-08:00

At least one other flavor of extender already exists: the $600 LG DVR running MS (which requires a subscription). But what's to stop Microsoft from releasing a stand-alone MCE externder that isn't an Xbox 360? If they release something around $150 (similar to other generic extenders, like Dlink's) they'd likely sell a ton of units.

-Dave Zatz