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Why Vista Media Center doesn’t stream DVDs October 18, 2006

Posted by flung in : Windows Media Center , trackback

According to Matt Goyer (who was a former Program Manager for the Windows Media Center team), there’s a simple reason why Media Center under Windows Vista doesn’t support DVD streaming:

Getting core functionality working on Vista was hard enough

In fact, Matt states that there are many more important features that the Media Center team would rather implement. He’s also got a very good point - in order for DVD streaming to work - there needs to be coordinated development efforts between the MCE team, the TV team, and the Media Center Extender team. Not easy.

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