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Swimming with Vista Media Center
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
…I’ve been diving a bit deeper into the Microsoft technology pool of late. I have a bunch of spare 
computers lying around, and decided I wanted to turn one of them into a Media Center server. So, I burned a copy of Windows Vista by downloading it from MSDN, activated it with an "Ultimate" key (the one that has Media Center enabled) installed a tuner card and new graphics card, and discovered that the cards were too tall for the computer I was upgrading.
D’oh. My original plan was to put the PC on top of my entertainment center, but until I buy a new case for the PC, it was going to have to be this ugly beast with wires hanging out of it that would likely bake wandering cats in a flash, if I had any. That’s when I remembered that an XBOX 360 has a Media Center Extender built-in to the game console.
So, I disconnected the cable wire from my TV, connected it to my scary-looking open-to-the-air Media Center (which is now safely squirreled away on a desk elsewhere in the home), and tried to access my Media Center by entering the Media Center section of the XBOX system screens. ยป Swimming with Vista Media Center | John Carroll | ZDNet.com
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