Microsoft Frees 360 from XP Media Edition Shackles
Media Player revamp good news for gamers.
Microsoft has announced a rework of its Media Player for Windows that will allow Xbox 360 users to stream content to their off-shiny white games machines, freeing the delivery of such media from the shackles of Windows XP Media Edition.
As you may be aware, Microsoft locked the ability to view movies and listen to music from your PC via its new console to its unpopular 'lifestyle' operating system. A new deployment of Windows Media Player 11 features a mode called Media Sharing that will, in time, open up your shady world of dark pornography, songs from the mid-80s and other sordid secrets to other areas of your home.
Although the beta version of the updated Windows Media Player is available now, you'll have to wait for an update to the dashboard - to be made available via Live - before the changes take place.
As you may be aware, Microsoft locked the ability to view movies and listen to music from your PC via its new console to its unpopular 'lifestyle' operating system. A new deployment of Windows Media Player 11 features a mode called Media Sharing that will, in time, open up your shady world of dark pornography, songs from the mid-80s and other sordid secrets to other areas of your home.
Although the beta version of the updated Windows Media Player is available now, you'll have to wait for an update to the dashboard - to be made available via Live - before the changes take place.
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alexh2o 7 Sep 2006 15:55
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about time!! i nearly cried when i tried to get it to work. first tried with xp and found i couldnt send lost to it, only discovering i couldnt after several hours of trying. then tried using vista beta media center only to find that was region 1 locked!
crs117 7 Sep 2006 16:25
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Actually using windows media connect via xp you where perfectly able to stream audio and pictures from your pc to your x360. I have yet to put any media on my xbox instead preferring to stream all content from my pc.
The only thing off limits was streaming video which was only possible using media center. I still dont think MS has any plans of allowing video streaming from xp even in media player 11. So users will still have to have either xp media edition or vista.
The only thing off limits was streaming video which was only possible using media center. I still dont think MS has any plans of allowing video streaming from xp even in media player 11. So users will still have to have either xp media edition or vista.
PreciousRoi 8 Sep 2006 00:28
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crs117 wrote:
The only thing off limits was streaming video which was only possible using media center. I still dont think MS has any plans of allowing video streaming from xp even in media player 11. So users will still have to have either xp media edition or vista.
Actually I think that the article says that MS is doing exactly that.
Which, if true, is a long overdue development, the Media Center requirement was crap, if predictable. And an "incentive" to upgrade to Vista is certainly sounds like a trademark MS move. Like when I had to buy 95b to use the USB and AGP on my old Super 7 motherboard. Or 98SE, what was SE's killer app? I don't even remember...there had to be some reason why I plunked down for 3 upgrade versions of that.