Screen shots of Media Portal 0.1.3.0 were release Sunday and can be viewed at the Media Portal page here.

The latest version of Media Portal is due to be released July 1.

There are no shortage out there today of home PVR software solutions, but with many being commercial offerings (including MCE) there’s not a huge number of DIY PVR software offerings that are offered for free. MythTV is probably the most well known of the alternatives, and although I intend to review this at a […]

Amazing stuff from Slate:
Murdoch plans to digitally deliver movies and other programming from his satellites to home digital video recorders that would be the same quality, or higher (HDTV), than a DVD. Since there are not enough transponders on satellites to stream movies to individual subscribers on demand, Murdoch needs DVRs in every home to […]

Bell Canada today announced the launch of Canada’s most advanced digital TV receiver, which allows Bell ExpressVu customers to instantly pause live television, as well as record, replay, stop, fast forward and fast rewind High Definition and Standard Definition (SD) programming on more than one TV in the home through a single receiver.
The 9200 Dual […]

Tom’s Hardware have followed up with their great review of the other day with Part 2 of their series: Windows In The Living Room, focusing on how MCE helps you organize and manage what you record.

Hauppauge has introduced the first “hybrid” TV card, featuring both an analogue and a digital TV tuner. The Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1100, will be available from mid July in the UK
The hybrid card overcomes the problems of selling digital-only MCE PCs in areas that not every one is able to access digitial television.
“Talking to PC […]

Plextor Corp. has announced the availability of real-time hardware-based DivX video encoding on the ConvertX Personal Video Recorder for the Macintosh with Elgato’s EyeTV 1.8.1 software.

Despite all the protests against Tivo on the basis of copyright and theft of product, this report states that Tivo is actually good for TV, although it sems more based on the opinions of a few random people than any serious study.

Tom’s Hardware have released Part 1 of what looks like a new series covering Microsoft Windows Media Centre Edition. I still haven’t got around to buying a copy and am happy using free versions like GB PVR and Media Portal at the moment, but like everything this is a game of numbers and MCE is […]