windows digital media center

[hairy_mick]

read a artical in computer shopper about microsoft teaming uo with ntl to pilot
a delivery and installation service where ntl engineers set up windows xp media center pc in the livingroom of broadband customers whats your thoughts please.

[kronas]

if its NTL's engineers then i will tell them 'drop it off and leave please!!'

trustworthy computing MS say but can you trust NTL ?

[hairy_mick]

oh Kronas yee of little faith

[kronas]

Originally Posted by hairy_mick

oh Kronas yee of little faith

please someone tell me if they would trust NTL with handling/configuring equipment

[homealone]

Originally Posted by hairy_mick

read a artical in computer shopper about microsoft teaming uo with ntl to pilot
a delivery and installation service where ntl engineers set up windows xp media center pc in the livingroom of broadband customers whats your thoughts please.

I'd like to know how much it would cost, per month and how DRM would restrict 'other' activities on the pc, like p2p?

[andygrif]

Well I guess it would depend on the installer. If it's the installers I've had round to my house before (usually the sub-contractors) then I would echo Kronas' thoughts of 'drop it and leave please'.

If it was some of the tech guys I've had round here, I'd be pretty happy to let them loose on it. Saying that, it ain't that difficult to set MSMC

[sherer]

the thing is all the NTL boxes are IrDR and MCE sends commands to the STB in RC5. Also how will they be getting the output from the STB via RF or putting this throuhg a convertor. Who pays for all the cables etc as well.

If they had better converters etc and could get an RGB signal into my MCE machine that was EXACTLY the same as my scart connection to the TV then I wouldn't mind them coming out otherwise i'd rather just set this up myself. if MS are behind it then we might see some good results.