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Microsoft releases 1st Media Center update for Windows Vista | |
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| Time: 00:21 EST/05:21 GMT | News Source: Bink.nu | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (24.254.95.224) at 4/25/2007 12:20:19 PM |
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Ultimate Extra's remain a Ghost Town (sagebrush blows by...)
What a bargain that was! |
| #2 By 8556 (12.207.97.148) at 4/25/2007 1:35:26 PM |
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I'll give this a shot as Media Player stops at the beginning of all movies. My mistake. Apparently it only appears to freeze: "The video may appear to freeze when the movie begins in some DVDs"
In the meantime Roxio 8.2 OEM ($5.5 at ASI) plays movies as they are intended to be seen, along with buring discs, of course. |
| #3 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 4/25/2007 3:13:11 PM |
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#2, What vid card and dvr rev were you using? Thanks.
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| #4 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 4/25/2007 4:09:42 PM |
| #1: agreed. What's the story with that? They'd better start at least announcing something that's coming, if not delivering. |
| #5 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 4/26/2007 1:17:17 AM |
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#4 and 1, Amen!
When one builds and supports premium hardware as a service, differentiation is an essential component. Servicing user technical, productivity and media usage needs is one way, but it is not enough - builders like us require Vista Ultimate and a steady and rich stream of Ultimate Extras. "Microsoft, you need to stop classifying Ultimate Extras with national security secrecy and start giving out a road-map for what users should expect." - Published February 27th, 2007 by Long Zheng - in an article he wrote titled, "Is Windows Vista Ultimate Extras a sham?" [ Mr. Zeng nails that one, but doesn't touch on why as much as we all need to ]. REF: the "I started something" website - http://www.istartedsomething.com Mr. Zeng offered that Digital Publications, essentially e-books, filled with Windows Vista secrets and tips, would be the next offering. http://www.flickr.com/photos/longzheng/349728965/ Ok, but as Mr. Zeng offered, many sites and programs like tweakvista have already covered this pretty well - as have sites like Paul Thurrott's, which present tips as submitted by dozens of users - all missing the main point here, "how are any of these tips 'extras'?" Some speculate that access to games like, Geometry Wars will be offered - assuming of course that one game has some kind of universal appeal - it doesn't - it doesn't come close. Ok, so what to do? What should Ultimate Extras offer? I reason that it should offer so much value that Windows Vista Ultimate would be without question, the must have version of Windows. Here's my list and the conditions that must attend the items on it: First the rules: "Yes, I know... some items may be done with third party tools, but that is the point - such items need to be baked into Ultimate and as seamless and reliable as one would expect." All Extras must be EXCLUSIVE and very hard to emulate by any other means and not available from Microsoft by any other means under any circumstances. - quite simply, make the words, "ultimate" and "extras" mean something. All Ultimate Extras must be FREE of any additional fees. Bundling apps like games, or anti-virus suites, or digital imaging apps is lame, lame, and even more LAME - while nice, it’s just a cost offset - again, Ultimate must have a larger meaning in the same way exclusive clubs do - people pay a great deal for exclusivity. So readily available software and features is a huge none starter [this is what I suspect is the problem with Ultimate and why we have not seen more of them!!!]. My List: Cont... |
| #6 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 4/26/2007 1:18:18 AM |
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Exclusive Games that run only on Ultimate and no other version.
Dedicated online community for Ultimate owners with both moderated chat and content within the WMC's online spotlight geared for and toward Ultimate owners [Awin should have such a channel within its site - an Extras lounge, so to speak. I mean, I like Latch's comments most of the time, but there are times when I'd like to be around those that share my passion for Windows and elite hardware - I mean, defending why I like black coffee so much would become tiresome if it were necessary each time I topped off my mug. A Vista Ultimate Icon Package and manager - to allow more options that add greater clarity to the user shell. Online backup and restore and a private/personal domain for Ultimate users only - making remote access, backup and access to online files easy and consistent. Tools for Ultimate owners supporting benchmarking, over clocking and systems building - again, all centered on and baked into Ultimate. [great opportunities for hardware and device manufacturers to participate here] Wi-Fi and Bluetooth software to communicate with a small LCD pad, like large remote that leverages "SideShow" and exclusive SideShow Gadgets for Ultimate users - e.g., use your PC without being at a PC - sort of a tiny, hybrid SmartPanel. Make Windows Vista Ultimate support multiple remote sessions - e.g., let me use my UMPC as an extension of my Windows Vista Ultimate PC at the same time the workstation is in use. [see Ultimate SideShow recommendation above to see what I mean]. Create an Ultimate only online store populated with all the little things that users of Ultimate will want - like the small internal USB headers that support internal ReadyBoost drives. Sell the items at cost [we do that - man, you should have seen the MBA's lose their minds!!! I still smile about that - remember, it’s hardware as a service]. Include a voucher for a real book - an owners’ manual from Ultimate Extras nirvana that is only available to Ultimate owners and make it so good and so well illustrated that it would make any publisher weep - I suggest a nice leather cover. Provide expert remote assistance help 24/7 at a single click. Bind this to a systems and user profile and invite the systems builders to support it. Offer online diagnostics and 24/7 next day drop shipping of spares for parts as needed. Cont... |
| #7 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 4/26/2007 1:18:42 AM |
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Offer a casing service where Ultimate owners may ship their cases off to have a custom skin applied [once per license]. It's cheaper and easier than can be imagined.
Download priority and a customer download manager offering Ultimate owners the best possible online experience opposite Microsoft and Partner sites. Create the Ultimate Personalization Pack for users to have unprecedented and reliable/consistent control over every aspect of the user shell with easy to access and use controls for the browser [let me move the dad gum tool bars around]. Support the storage of the personalization profile in the online backup and restore as above – so we can ship it to the many new configurations we are much more likely to use. Create a dedicated Ultimate owner call in for re-activation – we’re the users most likely to need it – if people violate terms, banish them from the club! Create an Ultimate builders Guild and access to people building on Ultimate – make it dang hard to earn the right to be there. Bundle a set of four case decals for Windows Ultimate and include these with the boxed sets so we can properly brand our rigs. Bundle Smart Card access into Ultimate in ways that make it possible and easy for Ultimate owners to benefit from what larger corporations do. Make the head point for access to our private/personal Ultimate domains and remote access part of this service. [we’ll buy the hardware and cards, but Microsoft will handle the back end]. I reason that not all of these suggestions practical – but being practical is not what Ultimate is about. Windows Vista Ultimate should be how people reward themselves for all their hard work and consistent devotion to the potential of the PC. I do assess that if Microsoft were to offers these as Ultimate Extras, that a great deal more people would buy this version and a lot of positive buzz would be generated for Windows Vista. Microsoft very likely retains an incredible amount of passion, I think it has to be okay for them to express it again. |
| #8 By 2960 (24.254.95.224) at 4/26/2007 7:30:05 AM |
| A free copy of Halo 2 would be a nice ultimate Extra :) |
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