HP loses faith in media centre PCs, dumps range

**The News Bot** · 29-03-2007, 7:30 AM

Hewlett-Packard has been a vociferous advocate of the media centre PC. Its Digital Entertainment vision has been dominant at the last two CES expos and the company has spent millions positioning itself at the cutting edge of the digital home. So what is to be made of its decision to drop its Digital Entertainment Center [...]
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Mike-M · 29-03-2007, 1:23 PM

I can understand this. Microsoft has had long enough now to get MCE to a viable consumer friendly state, but IMO it hasn't done it. Sure you can get it working if you know what your doing and spend the time but the vast majority of people want something that just works and does so over the long term without constant tweaking.

happyhomer · 30-03-2007, 2:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike-M

I can understand this. Microsoft has had long enough now to get MCE to a viable consumer friendly state, but IMO it hasn't done it. Sure you can get it working if you know what your doing and spend the time but the vast majority of people want something that just works and does so over the long term without constant tweaking.

Here Here!

I've worked with PC's & File Servers for over 10 years now, and like to think I know a fair bit about such things, but I would NEVER want a MCE PC running my AV setup-when I'm listening to music/watching movies I just want to relax.