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Can anyone tell me why Microsoft’s video for the Digital Home Makeover contest is done in Flash and not Sliverlight? Kind of ironic how a video advertising a contest about connecting your life uses technologies that are completely disconnected from Microsoft’s web vision.  Anyway, be sure to check out the Digital Home Makeover contest, a $10,000 makeover would sure be nice!

New application from babgvant, DVRMStoWMVHD which converts DVR-MS files to WMV files via command line.  By default it will convert DVR-MS files to WMV (VC-1) and WMA Pro 5.1 audio.

Put this in the category that I don’t believe, but ABI Research says “both AV form factor home theater PCs and more traditional home theater PCs will grow to an installed base worldwide of 25 million by 2013.”  25 million HTPCs in 2013, I don’t think so.  25 million is a mainstream number, and considering almost all large OEMs have ditched HTPCs years ago the units are set to grow that much? 

Cross Posted from Chris Lanier's Blog at http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/
Published Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:34 AM by Chris - Moderator
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ryan.tollefson said:

Does anyone know what the current install base is?  

Not knowing that, I can't really say if I think this is reasonable growth or not; however, I could see there being worldwide growth of ~4 million/year for the next 5 years - especially as people want one device to do everything in their living room, I think an HTPC will (eventually) be the way to do that.
March 25, 2008 9:23 AM
 

Chris - Moderator said:

No idea what the current install base is, but I don't think growth in PCs will even go that far.  Extenders and media adapters are much more likely to grow over expensive, loud, hot PCs.
March 25, 2008 9:51 AM
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