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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. Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/mcezone
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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 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
MediaBrowser Firestorm Brings Performance, Stability and Features
Posted: Jan 05, 2010
MediaBrowser has long been a favorite for anyone looking to replace the built-in movie library browser with something that has a few more features. MediaBrowser is a free plugin for Windows 7 Media...
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Increasing the Default Number of Rows in the EPG
Posted: Dec 08, 2009
Not satisfied with the default setting of seven rows of channels displayed in the episode guide of Windows 7 Media Center? Unfortunately, there is no option to enable an increased number of rows to...
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Launching Background Commands from Extras Library
Posted: Dec 04, 2009
Looking for a way to launch commands or programs to run in the background from the Extras Library menu? When you may be in luck, CW-Kid and Andrew Cherry have come up with a .dll and a set of direc...
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Audio Conversion using Popcorn Audio Converter
Posted: Dec 01, 2009
There are several situations in which you may find yourself needing to do a simple conversion of the audio contained inside an MKV file only to find out it’s not so simple after all. Despite the ...
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Auto Rip n Compress adds DVD Ripping to Media Center (Almost)
Posted: Nov 24, 2009
Despite Windows 7 Media Center’s inclusion of a native movie library no function to actually rip the DVDs to the library was included. Certainly an attempt to avoid this legal grey area of copyin...
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The Media Center Show
Big Screen EPG now natively supported by Remote Potato
Posted: Feb 08, 2010
If you want to be able to remotely schedule recordings with Windows Media Center then there is Remote Potato and if you haven’t got access to good EPG data then there is Big Screen EPG and now Re...
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Use a Zune Remote Control with Windows Media Center
Posted: Feb 07, 2010
One thing I do like about the Apple TV is the tiny little remote control, what it lacks in buttons it makes up for in elegance. The remote that comes with the Zune AV Dock is equally as ele...
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Diamond 0.3 Beta theme for Media Browser
Posted: Feb 06, 2010
I know how many of you love Media Browser so I thought link to Jas Manghera latest post, he has a preview up of the new Diamond theme for the Media Browser. With the release of the next update of M...
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Video: Controlling Windows Media Center with an iPhone
Posted: Feb 05, 2010
There are lots of apps for controlling Windows Media Center with an iPhone and I thought I would start talking a look at how good they are.
The first app I tried is vmcMote, I used the lite version...
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S1Digital Launches Blu-ray changer for Media Center and WHS
Posted: Feb 04, 2010
S1Digital have launched a 100 disc Blu-ray changer for their Entertainment Server, it works with My Movies and can be used to to rip Blu-ray’s or DVDs to a Windows Home Server. If you have a lot ...
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