New Media Centre Extenders (MCX) v2.0 - Codename Pika

[mark.carline]

Just spotted this post on Chris Laniers blog about Media Centre Extenders:

http://thegreenbutton.com/blogs/chris_blog/archive/2006/06/17/121154.aspx

I know its an old post (June 17th) but I thought it would be worth mentioning.

Interesting bits I thought where:

OEM's should be aware that consumers are looking for Extenders that take full advantage of the EM8622L processor.

The EM8622L supports the following formats…

MPEG-4 Part 10 (H.264)
VC-1 (WMV9)
MPEG-2
MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/XviD)
Dolby Digital
WMA/WMA Pro
MPEG-1/2 Audio
AAC
MP3
And more!

Interesting to see that MS are planning on having DVD player and Digital TVs with built in Media Centre Extenders, see this:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/media/MCX.mspx

and this diagram:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/images/device/media/MCE_House_diagram_2.jpg

nice !

Just found this also if you fancy building one !

http://www.sigmadesigns.com/public/Products/EM8620L/pdf_files/Pika8622L_br.pdf

 

[trifin]

good find!

MS in my tv, my dvd - oh dear!! haha

 

[mark.carline]

Press release from 1st june also here:

http://www.sigmadesigns.com/public/Company/press_releases/060601.pdf

EDIT:

Also a couple of techy powerpoint presentations on the technology:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/b/9/5b97017b-e28a-4bae-ba48-174cf47d23cd/CON063_WH06.ppt

and:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/b/9/5b97017b-e28a-4bae-ba48-174cf47d23cd/CON055_WH06.ppt