Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, mostly in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Hotmail Frontdoor team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for the User Interface of Hotmail as well as some of the Infrastructure and Architecture. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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A while ago I wondered if we’d ever see a receiver that was targeted to a media center. All my receiver does is amplify to my 5.1 surround and act as an audio switch for my xbox, media center and comcast DVR.
Long gone are the days of a receiver doing things like video switching (my TV does that), and switching for tapes, CD, MiniDisc etc. The reality is that receivers are the kitchen sink these days and they can’t even do such things as DVI/HDMI switching w/o also doing composite, s-video, and a million other things I don’t need. I also don’t want to be buying a new receiver every few years (my receiver doesn’t even do component video switching).
Well I just read about the simplifi amplifiers for Media Center. They basically allow you to plug in your home theater speakers and your media center and you’re done.
Man, if only you could also pair it with an xbox and I had CableCard support in MCE. Then I could get rid of my crapola comcast DVR and my receiver and make room for a bad ass 200 Disc DVD Changer that was also just announced.
The Media Center space is getting really exciting.
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