Windows Media Center as a set-top box
Asus and Acer have the Intel Developer Foum in San Francisco set-top boxes with Windows Media Center presented at. They are based on Intel's TV chip atom 4100 CE and have a built-in TV tuner. The boxes in 2011 for about $ 300 to have his first semester.
The operating system is Windows Embedded Standard 7 are used. It is a special version of Windows 7, in which individual components can be omitted. The set-top boxes, for example, show only the Media Center interface. Switching to the Desktop is not possible.
The demo during the keynote, however, revealed weaknesses: the HD movie was not playing very smoothly. Also to send animations of the surface were missing. Whether Microsoft to market can completely eliminate the problems, still has to show first. to consider is that the atomic CE 4100 with such a resource hungry OS should not be heavily used. Other Smart TV solutions, such as the IDF presented to amino based on Intel's Linux-variant Meego or Google TV, ran smoothly and with animation.
OEMs can customize the interface of Windows Media Center.
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