Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard plan to officially unveil the Media Center PC on Tuesday, but Sunday newspaper inserts leaked out pricing and model information ahead of the event. Actor Tom Arnold will be the celebrity on hand for the New York event for the new computers, made by HP and running the new Windows XP Media Center Edition, a derivation of Microsoft's flagship operating system. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates introduced the new OS, then code-named Freestyle, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The Windows XP hybrid sports a second interface for accessing digital media features, including a digital video recorder (DVR) for recording TV shows to the computer's hard drive.
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