XP Media Center Edition?

FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
edited February 2004 in Science & Tech
Has anyone installed this on a pc they built? I realise it is propriatary and your supposed to by the PC with the OS installed but I dont want do it that way. In other words I would rather not pay 1000$ for something I could build for ~600$.

Any experience with this at all? Im thinking about building a Shuttle type media center PC.

Comments

  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    AFAIK it works on a Shuttle XPC, so I don't see why it shouldn't work with any other PC.
  • MadballMadball Fort Benton, MT
    edited February 2004
    I think it will work on anything XP Pro will work on. I was curious about it myself, but where can you get it? I haven't seen it for sale anywhere without buying a whole machine.
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited February 2004
    I am sure it can be acquired if you look hard enough. My only concern is if it can be bios locked somehow to the machine it was originally installed and purchased on. I wonder if I could buy an OEM copy somehow. I do not believe you can just buy the standalone OS. I have seen it for download on some of the questionable sites. But I would rather not use a pirated version. Anyone buy a media center pc and wanna trade XP licenses?
  • MadballMadball Fort Benton, MT
    edited February 2004
    If you find a place to get it, let me know. I am interested in trying it out on my htpc. I've been looking for quite awhile now with no luck.
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited February 2004
    I've installed it on a machine I built. Needless to say, it will complain if it cannot see one of the few remote controls i'ts made to work with, there are clipping/video problems on many of the menus, and the TV capibility only functions with only a few tuners.

    In the end, I ended up imaging the drive back to the way it was (I had a backup). The "Media Center" portion of the OS is not much more than an application running in XPPro. Furthermore, the Media Center application itself barely works with hardware outside of what it was actually built for.
  • celchocelcho Tallahassee, FL Member
    edited February 2004
    just run xp pro with myhtpc, it's supposed to be a really solid program.
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited February 2004
    you can also try this: http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/
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