Well, Front Row has no TV interface for starters :-) And since iTMS in
Australia has no television shows........ no-one is holding their breath
for them either :-)
There are a lot of EyeTV owners out there that would like an integrated
EPG, rather than using the current widget solution offered by ICEtv.
And Windows Media Centre has an SDK, allowing third party plugins.
For what Front Row does, its fantastic. But problems with the Movie
Trailer service, no tv shows available from iTMS outside the US shows
its not the right solution yet for what a lot of Mac owners are waiting
for. That's why some of us have turned to Windows solutions that are
more mature than Front Row.
Bootcamp is not just about getting cool games to play on the Mac :-)
Seeya
Rod!
Karl Videmanis wrote:
Why would you want to install Media Centre - every intel Mac ships
with Front Row.
Come to think of it, every intel iMac ships with Mac OS X and iLife :-)
Karl
On 26/04/2006, at 6:39 PM, Rod Lavington wrote:
On Wednesday, April 26, 2006, at 05:11PM, Rob Findlay
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No drama here. We've done an iMac and a Macbook Pro without issue.
Make sure
you have a genuine Windows XP Service pack 2 CD. Just follow the
instructions.
Rob
You can slipstream a SP1 Genuine disk with the SP2 download from
Microsoft's site. This will work (as that is what I did!). Google
slipstream SP2 and there are a number of helpful sites that will be
revealed.
Also, if you plug in an external cd drive, you can install the
Windows Media centre version of Windows as well. At this point,
Google is your friend :-) Lots of info out there on what has been
tried. If you are after a local flavour, check out the forums at
appletalk.com.au. There is a thread that is almost at 500 on
people's experiences with bootcamp.
Seeya
Rod!
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