NewsGator goes Media Center

NewsGator, my RSS reader of choice, has integrated itself into Windows MediaCenter. Now, I have a TiVo... and I love it... in fact, I use it daily... I'd be naked without it. I'm eagerly awaiting the TiVoToGo package where you can extract video to watch anywhere. However, I have to say... MediaCenter sure is looking more and more appealing. I wonder (out loud)... if you have an extra PC lying around, that's plenty powerful, and maybe if you added a TV video card, remote, a phat hard drive... could you build your own? There's an article on PC World telling you how to do it. But what if I want to use MediaCenter as my OS? Wonder if it's possible to build your own with MediaCenter... need to look into MediaCenter more... will the XBOX 2 be the next Media Center? Is there a monthly subscription (which I HATE about my TiVo... even though I'm a lifetime subscriber).

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posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 5:06 PM

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# re: NewsGator goes Media Center 4/14/2004 3:42 PM Greg Reinacker

I think you can indeed build your own Media Center PC, but to get ahold of Windows XP Media Center Edition you need to either buy a machine that already has it, or I think it's on MSDN Universal as well.

And no, there isn't any monthly subscription for guide data - one definite advantage over TiVo and others. Besides, of course, the advantage of having NewsGator Media Center edition. :-)

re: NewsGator goes Media Center 4/15/2004 3:15 PM cg

you can use snapstream's beyond tv in place of media center for a lot less and free guide data.

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