Welcome to the final installment of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 and Xbox 360 Extender.  This time we'll cover exactly how to stream your DVDs through Media Connect to your Xbox360.   By now we’ve learned Windows Media Connect (the connection between WinMC/WinXP and your Xbox360) won’t stream anything but MPG or ...

Video troubles:  To simply playback a DVD on your new Windows MC machine you’ll need a codec that is compatible with Windows Media Player10.  If you’ve bought a pre-built WinMC HTPC it’s probably already installed.  But if you’ve installed the Operating System like I did you’ll need a decoder to ...

In part2 we established the Win XP/MC ’05 PC, and that works great!  More smiles than dinner time at the Wickenheiser’s on Hamburger Helper night.   Here are my first baby steps into Xbox 360 extender and Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.   The initial connection was easy as pie.  Using 360’s Media blade simply select ...

It’s been awhile since I’ve thought about Windows MC.  But since obtaining some new computer hardware I found an OEM version of the product and installed it.  This means I built a PC and installed the operating from scratch rather than using one of the pre-built systems that are rather over-priced.   Here is a hardware run ...

They say the thousand mile journey begins with the first step.  My first step to digitizing all my media will be documented here on this blog.  It's been done, sure.  This isn't promising to be the definitive guide to all things HTPC.  But thus far, a working HTPC has eluded me.  I've been interested and I've been touting the strengths of going ...