I recently tried to play an old movie we recorded several years ago that I hadn't played in quite a while through our extender, and got a pop up with the title line Optional Media Update Required , and the text of the windows says A media update is required to play this content. To get the update,...

I have had WMC (Windows 7) with 4 xbox 360 extenders for years. I recently changed my router and now 1 of my xbox extenders is asking me to setup WMC connection by going to xbox.com/pcsetup but that link doesn't work anymore.

Is there any other way to setup the 360 extender manually with the...

I have had three XB360 Model 1439 consoles that only act as extenders running without any real issue for a number of years. One of them has recently displayed Update Required. A system update is available from Xbox Live...

If I select Yes, it complains about not having enough storage space. If I...

I thought this was interesting, and it shows how the Xbox can still hold its own against some of the competition.

My Xbox 360S came down with the RDOD (Red Dot of Death). I opened it and all looks good. Fan spins, heat sink is clean. I removed the heat sink and added a dab more of heat sink compound but no luck. Still have the RDOD. I'm considering getting a used one but the 360 S is an old model. Do any of...

I've been running Windows 7 with Media Center and an Xbox 360 for years without a problem (pretty much as soon as the Xbox 360 came out, had WMC since XP). I have the SiliconDust Connect Quatro for over the air TV. Recently, but I don't know exactly when, the 30 second skip button seems to take...

The HBO Go app on the Xbox 360 will go away Jan. 8. Too bad. There are other good options, but for me the spousal acceptance factor has been excellent on a device that can do WMC, Netflix, Amazon and HBO without the need to switch inputs.

So, having read all the posts here and elsewhere by people frustrated that they aren't able to use extenders with WMC on Windows 10, I decided it was time to get involved and bought myself an Xbox 360 and a Ceton Echo to play with.

The story so far:

On Windows 7, the Xbox 360 and the Ceton Echo...

For the last few weeks I've been getting:

Application Failure: A critical Windows Media Center process has failed. Restart the computer and try again. If the problem persists, contact your hardware manufacturer for assistance.

When trying to play any shows (live or recorded) from my Xbox360....

Now that my Xbox 360-S extender has died (red dot of death), I started to look for alternatives for playing the .wtv files from the WMC PC over the network. I know I'll never be able to find something that will play the DRM protected content but with HBOGo and similar apps I no longer need a...

Hello there, total noobie to WMC.
I have spent about two days using Wireshark, Services, and the Event Viewer to try and find out what the problem is. What happens is upon entering the pairing code, the XBOX and Media Center seem to contact each other, in fact the XBOX media center app changes to...

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I have two DSM-750 set up as extenders. A couple days ago I noticed that the extenders were now longer decoding 5.1 content but sending 2 channel PCM to my AVR. I had been having some problems with decoding 5.1 content before this. The HDMI cable had not been sending 5.1 content for a while,...

This started happening after I installed the MSFT January 2019 security roll up updates. The DMA2200 would freeze and need a power cycle to sign in and work again. Then I noticed that when it froze that it also disappeared from Network. I switched the 2200 for another 2200 and had the same results,...

Is it possible to use another PC running WMC as a media center extender, or otherwise access stored recordings and live TV from the primary machine's WMC instance? I know I could assign one or two tuners to the secondary machine, but I want to be able to record on one machine and watch on the other.

I have been using a 360 extender for years, hardwired with cat 5e cable. Things like roku have no problems with shows and movies.
The 360 with things like showtime HD content either displays a black screen with audio or a stream with long pauses in it. Never a fluid motion.

IS this the 100mb...

Hi, is there a way to program the DMA-2100 to respond to only one set of IR codes? The Ceton Extender as well as WMC have this ability which comes in useful if they are within IR line of site with each other.

For some reason, the last month or so, using my XBox 360-S to watch live or recorded TV has been practically unbearable. It takes close to a minute for my XBox to connect and download from my HTPC. Watching live or recorded TV. the picture will be okay for a few seconds, then stutter, lose sync...

I have a few xbox 360's I have held on to for the only purpose of being an extender. One of them the internal memory went bad and I was using a thumbdrive until MS released that last out of the blue update it will not apply so will not work. I then moved to my other unit which has a spinning hard...

Just installed this on both of my Xbox 360s this week.

WMC still working fine. My hope is they fixed they bug where I sometimes get prompted to do media update to watch cable channels. So far so good.

Been using WMC for.. well forever, and it's always worked pretty well. A month or two ago I figured that if I was ever going to refresh the hardware that now was the time, and got myself some new gear, installed 8.1, activated Media Center (hooray, it still works!), and got my storage drives...

I am currently using a Xbox 360 as an extender that has an old original Microsoft IR receiver connected to it. It does exactly what I want, which is power on the Xbox 360 from the remote.

Will be getting another Xbox 360 to use as an extender but finding the original Microsoft IR receiver with...

Been having an issue for a while where one of my two Xbox 360 extenders will only connect immediately after a reboot of WMC
PC. My other extender never has that problem. The problem extender will be off all day while I am at work and when I get home and turn it on, I get the dark blue error screen...

I have three 4GB 360’s that are used ONLY for WMC. The latest update downloads a little over half way and fails.

I’ve tried using a USB drive with the update loaded on it. No luck. All it does is unmount the internal storage so then I get the error “not enough free storage space”.

So then I...