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Windows Media Center
So, I finally got to sit down at the home theater of a Microsoft fanatic, hoping to finally see the good in their media experience...
10 minutes later I had figured out that there is no way to stretch SD television to fill the screen, and that the software is somehow magically able to produce thumbnails for videos that it claims not to have the codec required to play (which, btw, was 80% of the videos I tried to play, in various containers and formats, from his own network file server).
There was maybe a 80 chance I was not going to try an X-Box 360, or a Windows MCE machine, as my home theater machine. Now it is 100%. That leaves plenty of alternatives... Boxee and MythTV here I come!
10 minutes later I had figured out that there is no way to stretch SD television to fill the screen, and that the software is somehow magically able to produce thumbnails for videos that it claims not to have the codec required to play (which, btw, was 80% of the videos I tried to play, in various containers and formats, from his own network file server).
There was maybe a 80 chance I was not going to try an X-Box 360, or a Windows MCE machine, as my home theater machine. Now it is 100%. That leaves plenty of alternatives... Boxee and MythTV here I come!