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For Windows Vista users who use Windows Media Center, there's good news and bad news:
The good news? The long-awaited "Fiji" update to WMC, officially known as the Windows Media Center TV Pack, was released to manufacturing last week. The bad news? Pick a pair: a) TV Pack is currently available only to OEMs. b) Nobody who knows exactly what TV Pack includes is telling, and the rest of us don't know.
A recent story at EndgadgetHD suggests that TV Pack adds the following new features:
Much of this speculation is based on leaked screenshots of a German version of the RC0 pre-release edition.
According to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, non-OEM customers might get their hands on "Fiji" until the CEDIA Expo conference in early September. Last year, Microsoft rolled out extenders for Windows Vista Media Center during CEDIA.
If you know anything about Vista's new TV Pack, we'd love to hear from you.
Illustration courtesy of EndgadgetHD.
Links:
[1] http://www.maximumpc.com/user/marcus_soperus
[2] http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1489
[3] http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/05/no-directv-hd-for-vista-media-center-until-2010/
[4] http://hwrms.com/blog/?p=156
[5] http://www.cedia.net/expo/
[6] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/microsofty_multimedia_fans_mark_your_calendars_for_september_27
[7] http://www.engadgethd.com
[8] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/next_gen_media_center_extenders_to_use_802_11n
[9] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/vista_updates_windows_media_center_improve_extender_and_settop_box_support
[10] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/linksys_dma2200_media_center_extender
[11] http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/fiji
[12] http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/microsoft
[13] http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/vista
[14] http://www.maximumpc.com/articles/news/windows
[15] http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/windows_media_center
[16] http://www.maximumpc.com/articles/news
[17] http://www.maximumpc.com/user/login?&commentfragment=comments_top_anchor