Tuesday, November 22, 2005
A Big Thumbs up for the XBox 360 as Media Center Extender
Posted by Jeremy Charette in "ARTICLE" @ 12:00 PM
"Chris Anderson (Wired magazine editor-in-chief and author of the The Long Tail blog-and-book project) is one of the first to get an Xbox 360. He loves it: Given my interest in the Media Center PC as a Long Tail video platform, I was particularly interested in how well it worked as a Media Center “extender”, serving as the link between one of the TVs scattered around our house and the Windows Media Center PC running in the study that serves as our media library and DVR. The simple answer is very well indeed."
Chris Anderson raises some excellent points. What Sony fails to realize is that every Xbox 360 sold will be one more customer to experience the Windows Media Center Edition platform. All of those Media Center Edition PCs sold over the last year or two will instantly gain increased functionality and usability. These customers will bring friends and family over, and show off the interface to even more potential customers. Microsoft has wisely opted to piggy-back MCE on to it's already incredibly popular gaming console, giving it access to a broader customer base than any home multimedia device in history.
Chris Anderson raises some excellent points. What Sony fails to realize is that every Xbox 360 sold will be one more customer to experience the Windows Media Center Edition platform. All of those Media Center Edition PCs sold over the last year or two will instantly gain increased functionality and usability. These customers will bring friends and family over, and show off the interface to even more potential customers. Microsoft has wisely opted to piggy-back MCE on to it's already incredibly popular gaming console, giving it access to a broader customer base than any home multimedia device in history.
