The media center PC played an important role in advancing the digital age, according to Brian Jaquet, a spokesperson for Sling Media. But he also notes that one critical component was missing. "The ...

Speaking of perfect PCs, it doesn’t look like Gateway’s new Media Center PC would quite qualify for that title, at least according to DesignTechnica: While performance is above average, more fit and ...

Gateway Inc. plans to release two additional Media Center PCs Thursday, hoping that consumer excitement over multimedia will boost what is forecast as a weak holiday season for consumer PCs. The ...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is clearing its shelves of old Media Center PCs ahead of the launch of a new generation of the systems, one of which turned up at a store owned by Circuit City Stores earlier this ...

Can't recall the name right now. Guess I'll have to go HDFury3 or something and clone my output. I'd attach the Slingbox to the component outputs of an Xbox 360 or Media Center Extender, so that your ...

I have often joked that the inevitable result of the "convergence" of television and computer would be the need to reboot your TV every now and then. That actually happened this week. Twice. The TV in ...

Microsoft launched its Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system at an event in New York Tuesday, showing the software in PCs from Hewlett-Packard. Windows XP Media Center Edition can be ...

This is the first time in three years that Microsoft hasn't completely refreshed the Media Center OS-- the current version is called Media Center 2005 -- making the refresh, dubbed "Update Rollup 2," ...

In a multicity press conference, Jim Allchin, group vice president of Microsoft's Platforms Group, said via a satellite broadcast that Windows XP Media Center 2004 provides "experience computing," ...

Microsoft plans to drop the “Home” and “Pro” tags with the next release of Windows, code-named Longhorn, and is looking at shipping a single product that includes the features found in today’s Windows ...

New Media Center PC from Gateway that does all the things you’ve come to expect from a Media Center PC, like record TV shows. Fortunately, they’ve finally ditched the standard PC form factor and the ...