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Xbox Media Center Extender Kit

Well, it looks like Uncle Bill has announced some new functionality for his (future?) XBox offering. The Xbox Media Center Extender will become the center of family entertainment if Ole Bill gets his way. When combined with a Media Center enabled PC and a wireless connection, the Extender Kit lets Xbox owners easily transmit and access entertainment data stored on their PCs on the console. Users can browse, find, and listen to digital music (thanks to built-in Napster support), look at photos, watch TV and shows recorded on the PC, and access DVDs, utilizing the standard Windows Media Center user interface. In practice, this means one user can watch TV on the Media Center PC in the living room, while another watches a recorded movie using the Xbox Media Center Extender Kit in another room. Up to five different instances of the Media Center interface can run simultaneously.

Sounds cool Billy, hope it works!

Bandit

Posted by Bandit at January 9, 2004 01:05 PM