Windows 8 Media Center Screenies

#1 » Tue Jul 26, 2011 4:32 pm

I bumped into these during my hintonet trawling and thought they might be nice eye candy.
Good to see MC is still there, even though it seems to be a direct port of the existing verision. My W7MC version is 6.1x and the last image shows 6.2x but perhaps this is just to make it work under a Win8 shell.

#2 » Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:43 pm

Ehhhhm the last screen says windows 7?

#3 » Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:45 pm

Yes! Whacky, no?
They just haven't updated the info on that screen. It's certainly running on Windows 8.

#4 » Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:32 pm

Hope this is nowhere near complete. I don't see Netflix

#5 » Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:04 am

I was kinda hoping mediacenter would get swallowed up in the "tiles" UI .... can't see much reason to upgrade tbh??

#6 » Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:23 am

#7 » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:31 am

The software version number is interesting I guess - 6.2..... rather than 6.1.... for Win7

I haven't really looked at build numbers for Win8 yet - what's the latest build that people have spotted out in the wild?

It is weird that they left the 2009 date in there!

#8 » Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:44 am

These are real images. These early Windows 8 builds are running on top of Windows 7 I.e the installer is the Windows 7 one.

#9 » Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:48 am

Rob

For build numbers and which have been leaked look at the spreadsheet

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreads ... 4dUE&hl=en

**#10** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:32 pm

Thanks Stuart, nice link

**#11** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:01 pm

The version numbers make sense to me now. I assumed they referred to the version of MC, not Windows.

**#12** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:09 pm

stonethecrows wrote:The version numbers make sense to me now. I assumed they referred to the version of MC, not Windows.

7955 is the Windows 8 Build number

**#13** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:06 pm

I will be happy if some of the bugs get fixed.. like things hanging in "Now Playing" after my video finished playing on the main menu .. And how about some more codec support? FLAC and .MKV anyone?
newfiend~

**#14** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:36 pm

S2 and t2 support nativly would be nice but my guess is they'll just throw it in to windows 8 as is without investing anything into it, like calculator and solitare

**#15** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:06 pm

Fleadh wrote:S2 and t2 support nativly would be nice but my guess is they'll just throw it in to windows 8 as is without investing anything into it, like calculator and solitare

+1
I'm a glass half-empty person.

**#16** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:46 pm

OK, I must be dumb or something because I have no idea what you mean by S2 and t2 support. To me S2 is a sleep state...and t2 is....Terminator 2?

**#17** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:41 am

richard1980 wrote:OK, I must be dumb or something because I have no idea what you mean by S2 and t2 support. To me S2 is a sleep state...and t2 is....Terminator 2?

It's OK Richard, it's that Atlantic divide rearing it's head again!

S2 = DVB-S2 (digital satellite TV broadcasts)
T2 = DVB-T2 (digital terrestrial TV broadcasts)

**#18** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:19 am

yep, they're the next gen terrestrial and satellite broadcasts. In the UK Channel 4 HD is S2 and lots of folk have problems recieving it.

**#19** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:28 pm

They discuss these screen shots on this podcast

http://thedigitalmediazone.com/2011/07/ ... windows-8/

**#20** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:12 am

holidayboy wrote:
richard1980 wrote:OK, I must be dumb or something because I have no idea what you mean by S2 and t2 support. To me S2 is a sleep state...and t2 is....Terminator 2?

It's OK Richard, it's that Atlantic divide rearing it's head again!

S2 = DVB-S2 (digital satellite TV broadcasts)
T2 = DVB-T2 (digital terrestrial TV broadcasts)

Thanks for the explanation! Now I don't feel quite so stupid.

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