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MCE Zone is a Windows Media Center development company. We create Media Center plugins and addons for Vista and Windows 7 Media Center operating systems. We have plugins for entertainment, social, lifestyle and more. On our Media Center plugins page we offer free and commercial addons to give you a better Media Center experience. All plugins and addons created by us are 100% compatible with the new Windows 7 Media Center platform. If you are a company looking for Window Media Center development please feel free to call or email us using the information on our contact page.
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What is Windows Media Center?
If you are new or hearing about Media Center for the first time here is a brief description. Windows Media Center is a program created by Microsoft designed to bring a 10-foot experience to your TV. With the Windows Media Center remote you can pause live TV, listen to music, view slide shows, watch movies and more. You also have Media Center developers like us to create Vista and Windows 7 Media Center plugins and addons that does not currently exist in Windows Media Center. Windows Media Center is only available on the following Microsoft Windows operating systems. Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition, Vista Premium, Vista Ultimate, Windows 7 Premium, Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate.
Latest HD Movie Trailers
Here are the latest HD movies trailers added to our My Trailers plugin for Vista and Windows 7 Media Center.
Argo
Release Date: Oct 12, 2012
The true story of the life or death covert operation to rescue six Americans which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades....
Dark Horse
Release Date: Jun 07, 2012
Abe a thirty something man in arrested development lives with his parents collects toys and works in the family business. However when he meets Vi a 30 something who has moved back in with her folks after a failed literary career Abe sets out ...
End of Watch
Release Date: Sep 28, 2012
Young Los Angeles police officers Taylor and Zavala patrol the city's meanest streets of south central Los Angeles.The action unfolds through footage from the handheld HD cameras of the police officers gang members surveillance cameras and citizen...
Killer Joe
Release Date: Jul 27, 2012
When 22 year old Chris finds himself in debt to a drug lord he hires a hit man to dispatch his mother whose $50000 life insurance policy benefits his sister Dottie. Chris finds Joe Cooper a creepy crazy Dallas cop who moonlights as a contract ki...
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
Release Date: Jun 08, 2012
For uptight Manhattan lawyer Diane crazy means driving her teenage son Jake and adult daughter Zoe to visit their grandmother Grace. The crazy part is that the kids have never met Grace. In fact Diane hasn't spoken to her mother in twenty years. Gr...
People Like Us
Release Date: Jun 29, 2012
Sam is a young fast paced salesman who reluctantly returns home when he learns his father has died unexpectedly. In the course of putting his father's estate in order and reconnecting with his estranged family Sam discovers he has an older sister...
Prometheus
Release Date: Jun 08, 2012
In the distant future two superpowers control Earth and fight each other for all the solar systems natural resources. When one side dispatches a team to a distant planet to terraform it for human colonization the team discovers an indigenous race...
The Amazing Spider-Man
Release Date: Jul 03, 2012
A teenage Peter Parker grapples with both high school and amazing super human crises as his alter ego Spider-Man...
The Dark Knight Rises
Release Date: Jul 20, 2012
As Batman deals with his new status as a wanted vigilante he must also contend with two new enemies, Bane and Catwoman...
The Expendables 2
Release Date: Aug 17, 2012
The Expendables are back and this time its personal...
The Gangster Squad
Release Date: Dec 21, 2012
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and--if he has his way--every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And..
This Is 40
Release Date: Dec 21, 2012
This Is 40, an original comedy that expands upon the story of Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) from the blockbuster hit Knocked Up as we see firsthand how they are dealing with their current state of life...
Latest Media Center News
To stay up to date of whats new in the Media Center world we recommend checking out Michael Healy of Hack7MC.com and Ian Dixon of The Media Center Show websites. Below is the latest news from each site.
Hacking Windows 7 Media Center
Remote Potato Delivers Media Center to Your iPad
Posted: Aug 09, 2011
Remote Potato is a fantastic app for adding remote DVR capability, common in commercial DVR set-top boxes, to Windows 7 Media Center. We’ve taken a look at this handy tool previously here on Hack...
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MCL 2: Expands Number of Channels in Guide Listings
Posted: Jul 19, 2011
The original My Channel Logos endeavored to brighten up our Windows Media Center TV guides by adding bright colorful logos to the channel listings. Not only did this make browsing channels a little...
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New Crowd Media Center Theme
Posted: Jul 12, 2011
Hello again, today I’ve got another theme that I was keen to transfer over to a Media Center theme from perfecthue.com. This particular one is based on the wallpaper ‘Crowd’ which can be down...
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New Platform Media Center Theme
Posted: Jul 08, 2011
Greetings internet denizens and media center fans! I realize it’s been quite some time since the last update but today there’s a new media center theme available for download. Thanks to Jason B...
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Streaming Light Theme
Posted: Oct 12, 2010
Thanks to Dave Bryce, a Hack7MC reader and AVForums member, we have a new theme available for download today. Dave sent us this theme via mhealy@hack7mc.com and you can send your themes in as well ...
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The Media Center Show
Lenovo launch tiny PC that could make a great Media Center machine
Posted: Nov 25, 2011
There seems to be lots of announcements of set top boxes but for me you still can’t beat a PC connected to your TV. Lenovo’s latest little PC is smaller than may of the set top boxes we h...
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Recorded TV HD beta for Windows Media Center updated
Posted: Nov 23, 2011
Recorded TV HD for Windows Media Center has even updated to beta 1.5.9. The beta adds a ’media center like’ theme/view,  user created posters and lots of fixes.
Download the latest be...
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Video: Using VMware Fusion 4 to run Windows Media Center on a Mac
Posted: Sep 16, 2011
Last year I looked at using VMware to run windows Media Center on Mac OS X and while it worked pretty well media playback was a bit choppy, so when I saw that WMware had launched Fusion 4 for Mac O...
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New version of MCE 7 Reset Toolbox Released
Posted: Sep 15, 2011
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MCE 7 Reset Toolbox is a fantastic new addin for Windows Media Center that performs a whole range on functions. It does backups, enables guide editing and importing plus it has a toolbox of exc...
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The Digital Lifestyle Show #320 – Windows 8 is here
Posted: Sep 15, 2011
Welcome to show 320 and at last we can talk about Windows 8. Microsoft showed off the developer preview of Windows 8 this week and Jason Combs joins me to talk about how the OS looks and what its g...
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