Windows 8 Media Center Screenies

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Windows 8 Media Center Screenies

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Post by STC » Tue Jul 26, 2011 4:32 pm

I bumped into these during my hintonet trawling and thought they might be nice eye candy.
Good to see MC is still there, even though it seems to be a direct port of the existing verision. My W7MC version is 6.1x and the last image shows 6.2x but perhaps this is just to make it work under a Win8 shell.


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Post by Fleadh » Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:43 pm

Ehhhhm the last screen says windows 7?

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Post by STC » Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:45 pm

Yes! Whacky, no?
They just haven't updated the info on that screen. It's certainly running on Windows 8.
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Post by Dwight2001 » Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:32 pm

Hope this is nowhere near complete. I don't see Netflix :o

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Post by milli260876 » Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:04 am

I was kinda hoping mediacenter would get swallowed up in the "tiles" UI .... can't see much reason to upgrade tbh??
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#6

Post by kingwr » Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:23 am

Plus the last screen says Copyright 2009. That is probably the last time anything significant happended with Media Center.

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Post by holidayboy » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:31 am

The software version number is interesting I guess - 6.2..... rather than 6.1.... for Win7

I haven't really looked at build numbers for Win8 yet - what's the latest build that people have spotted out in the wild?

It is weird that they left the 2009 date in there!
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Post by cw-kid » Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:44 am

These are real images. These early Windows 8 builds are running on top of Windows 7 I.e the installer is the Windows 7 one.
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Post by cw-kid » Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:48 am

Rob

For build numbers and which have been leaked look at the spreadsheet

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreads ... 4dUE&hl=en
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Post by holidayboy » Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:32 pm

Thanks Stuart, nice link :D
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Post by STC » Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:01 pm

The version numbers make sense to me now. I assumed they referred to the version of MC, not Windows.
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Post by cw-kid » Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:09 pm

stonethecrows wrote:The version numbers make sense to me now. I assumed they referred to the version of MC, not Windows.
7955 is the Windows 8 Build number
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Post by newfiend » Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:06 pm

I will be happy if some of the bugs get fixed.. like things hanging in "Now Playing" after my video finished playing on the main menu .. And how about some more codec support? FLAC and .MKV anyone?
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Post by Fleadh » Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:36 pm

S2 and t2 support nativly would be nice but my guess is they'll just throw it in to windows 8 as is without investing anything into it, like calculator and solitare

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Post by gcoupe » Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:06 pm

Fleadh wrote:S2 and t2 support nativly would be nice but my guess is they'll just throw it in to windows 8 as is without investing anything into it, like calculator and solitare
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Post by richard1980 » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:46 pm

OK, I must be dumb or something because I have no idea what you mean by S2 and t2 support. To me S2 is a sleep state...and t2 is....Terminator 2?

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Post by holidayboy » Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:41 am

richard1980 wrote:OK, I must be dumb or something because I have no idea what you mean by S2 and t2 support. To me S2 is a sleep state...and t2 is....Terminator 2?
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S2 = DVB-S2 (digital satellite TV broadcasts)
T2 = DVB-T2 (digital terrestrial TV broadcasts)
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Post by Fleadh » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:19 am

yep, they're the next gen terrestrial and satellite broadcasts. In the UK Channel 4 HD is S2 and lots of folk have problems recieving it.

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Post by cw-kid » Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:28 pm

They discuss these screen shots on this podcast

http://thedigitalmediazone.com/2011/07/ ... windows-8/
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Post by richard1980 » Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:12 am

holidayboy wrote:
richard1980 wrote:OK, I must be dumb or something because I have no idea what you mean by S2 and t2 support. To me S2 is a sleep state...and t2 is....Terminator 2?
:D

It's OK Richard, it's that Atlantic divide rearing it's head again!

S2 = DVB-S2 (digital satellite TV broadcasts)
T2 = DVB-T2 (digital terrestrial TV broadcasts)
Thanks for the explanation! Now I don't feel quite so stupid.

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