Comments on: Vista Media Center Gets Internet TV Tomorrow

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:22:30 +0000

i live in the UK.
i would realy like this feature.
the interface looks fantastic.
what are the prices?
how do you pay?

By: mattinsurfers

mattinsurfers — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:45:49 +0000

snoop dog? Pussycat Dolls? msnbc? give me a break. just goes to show how “out of touch” microsoft really is with the rest of the world. that does happen in corporate environments you know..

By: Micrcomputers and Applications Fall 2007 » Vista Media Center Gets Internet TV

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:38:26 +0000

[...] Recently, the Vista operating system has added more to what a computer user can do. Any users who own the Vista Media Center (Home Premium or Ultimate) now have access to internet tv. Right now there are just about over 100 hours of media for users to watch, including entire episodes of popular tv shows, full concerts, and news clips. All of this is free to the user, because it is paid for by the advertisements that must be watched before the show (it is essentially the same as commercials on tv, so it shouldn’t be a problem). For more information, the full news article can be found here. [...]

By: Jack of all Trades

Jack of all Trades — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:07:53 +0000

i think it all have to do with local market distributers and deals, and maybe also to how some countries are ranked regarding software theft.

in small countries, maybe they are afraid there is no room for both downloaded media, and also TV, movies, music stores ect. and as for Israel at least, although we have a couple of mp3 store, they only have local music, and nothing worldwide (or very little at best), not even from big player like iTunes.

i think the biggest world media distributer, for TV content anyway, is Joost, and even them have many restriction about what u can view where. maybe iTunes too, but they have been around for much longer.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:34:11 +0000

That is interesting since things like the Box Office movies and such can be a worldwide service. Maybe they are going to wait and see how well it takes off first?

By: Jack of all Trades

Jack of all Trades — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:05:51 +0000

it should be noted that this is for the US only, as stated in microsoft site “U.S. users of Windows Vista Home Premium edition and Windows Vista Ultimate edition”.

although i understand why, it still pisses me off. after all, it is people from all over the world who downloaded illegal TV content that pushed the studios to join them instead of fighting them. but in most cases, it is only people from the states who enjoy this new usage of the internet.

but hey, it might mean we are one step closer to some sort of TV/Movies/Music utopia (well, it’s better then the old order of things in most cases anyway) all over the world.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:16:50 +0000

Andrej wrote:

But then again I never really fancied Media Center that much.

Media Center has actually grown a lot on me. The interface is great, and after using it for several months, I must say, I'm impressed with it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:14:49 +0000

It definitely isn’t necessary, but it’s one of those things that will be a nice addition to the Media Center app. Microsoft actually needs to do more things like this, because it is often the attention to detail that earns the admiration of the users.

By: Windows Vista to Get Internet TV | dailyApps

Windows Vista to Get Internet TV | dailyApps — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:54:15 +0000

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By: Andrej

Andrej — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:07:40 +0000

Well I just uninstalled Vista off my laptop and reinstalled XP on it so I guess I wont be able to see the change. But then again I never really fancied Media Center that much.

I’d say that this improvement is great, but it’s definitely unimportant, and it will hardly help Media Center become more popular.