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Arcsoft upgraded TotalMedia Theatre 5 adding MKV subtitle support. This is brilliant news as finally there’s a way to easily play MKV files in W7MC, that also passes the WAF test.

W7MC is one of the hidden gems within Windows 7 – Here are 12 Essential Windows 7 Media Center Addons that will get the most out of it.

If you have been a blogger on Microsoft Live using Spaces, your time will run out for blogging in that environment. How much time and what will happen to the [...]

Have you ever wanted to rip a DVD movie but eventually got tied up in knots when trying to choose a suitable video codec or understand what “VBV buffer rate” [...]

Both Windows Media Centre and Apple TV have been on the market now for years and both have their loyal supporters.  For people who use Apple’s iTunes software, especially to [...]

The Western Digital Live HD TV Media Server went on sale last year and those who own one may be finding it quite tough to navigate among movies etc…. using [...]

There’s no doubt that Windows Media Centre has been an enormous success.  It began as an important part of Bill Gates’ vision to get PCs into the living room.  It’s [...]

PlayReady is designed as a method to access content and provide protection to different technologies. It was originally released in February 2007. By moving to Playready, Samsung indicated that it would stop using Windows Media Digital Rights Management, as soon as its products were migrated to PlayReady.

Today you may find that your Windows Media Center is downloading some updates, I just saw mine downloading some updates only a moment ago and now I know why it [...]

Which is the Best Windows 7 Media Player? Part 1 This is sort of like a part two to my previous write-up about the best options for media in Windows [...]

UK users have already had this feature since November 2009, but Sky TV broadcaster has now finally rolled out it’s Sky player to Windows 7 users in Ireland.The service gives [...]

Since 2004 after being fined a record 497m euros in an antitrust ruling, Microsoft when  has only been allowed by the European Commission, who decided that bundling Windows Media Player [...]