During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. With the next generation of Media Center PCs, you'll be ...

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard plan to officially unveil the Media Center PC on Tuesday, but Sunday newspaper inserts leaked out pricing and model information ahead of the event. The new computers are ...

The media center PC played an important role in advancing the digital age, according to Brian Jaquet, a spokesperson for Sling Media. But he also notes that one critical component was missing. "The ...

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard plan to officially unveil the Media Center PC on Tuesday, but Sunday newspaper inserts leaked out pricing and model information ahead of the event. The new computers are ...

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Microsoft has made Windows XP Media Center edition available to only a few large system builders, such as Hewlett Packard, Toshiba, Sony, and Viewsonic. That complicates things for system builders who ...

Speaking of perfect PCs, it doesn’t look like Gateway’s new Media Center PC would quite qualify for that title, at least according to DesignTechnica: While performance is above average, more fit and ...

While combining computing with entertainment is a natural progression, most system builders, with the exception of a handful of large builders, have not had access to Media Center Edition. That should ...

Wood paneling and chrome made your dad's station wagon look like a million bucks, and they might also be just the ticket for Microsoft's fledgling effort to put a Media Center PC in every living room.

The only thing that can ruin watching downloaded television shows on a media center is having a big, loud, gaudy, distracting media center doing all of the work. Genus-PC is trying to eliminate this ...

A digital media hub from Microsoft that streams photos, audio and video from a Windows Media Center PC to the TV or home theater over a wired or wireless network connection. Connected to the TV set ...

Gateway Inc. plans to release two additional Media Center PCs Thursday, hoping that consumer excitement over multimedia will boost what is forecast as a weak holiday season for consumer PCs. The ...