[mythtv-users] MythTV vs. Windows Media Center

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Thu Feb 10 19:43:28 UTC 2011


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Reynolds, Brian
<Brian.Reynolds at fiserv.com> wrote:
> However, you can play "copy once" content on any Windows Media Center
> extender device (the official name is Extender for Windows Media Center)
> connected to that PC via the network. Unfortunately, the list of Windows
> Media extenders still in production has shrunk to just one product: the
> Xbox 360. You cannot stream "copy once" content to other PCs on your
> network.

This surprises me.  TiVo's support for what it calls "Multiroom
Viewing" and "TiVo To Go" are not compatible with copy-once content.

 http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=451107

How Microsoft got approval to support this while TiVo didn't is a mystery to me.

Eric


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