RE: Re: RE: Windows XP Media Center Edition Review

[Tony Butler <roaming@xxxxxxx>]

Quoting Gerard McGovern <stuff@xxxxxxx>:
> Anyone want to take a sportman's bet with me that the XP Media
Centre
> will NOT be as popular as Microsoft seem to think it will?

You're probably right Gerard - though the MS philosophy seems to be
"If at 
first it doesn't succeed, hammer away for another couple of years until we
get 
it right/we have killed the competition"....

I don't see the point in it myself - I wouldn't want a bloody great PC in
my 
lounge like that Dell thing for one - and if I've got a PC then I want to
use 
it for other things like games, software development etc.
If the PVR stuff robs 20% of the processor, that's gonna impact on these or
vice versa, so I either get p*ss poor performance from these applications,
or 
the video stutters and I get a rubbish recording......

I'm all for making consumer devices smarter, but having one big PC do it
all is 
_not_ the answer IMO.

Now if they added this functionality to the xbox, it would make a lot more
sense....

-- 
Tony
PS: How can a 2.somethingGhz P4 stutter when browsing the guide data when a
lowly 57Mhz 486 in a TiVo can cope? :-(


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