Watching Live Earth in HD on Windows Media Center


Posted by Brandon LeBlanc on Saturday, July 07, 2007 7:57 PM 7 Comments

Today, across the world, Live Earth is taking place - a huge concert for "a climate in crisis". This event is bringing together 2 billion people across the world with performances by over 150 musicians and presented by MSN. Unfortunately I was unable to make it to any of the live concerts myself but I have the next best thing to being there in person. Connected to a 42-inch LG HDTV (which is Energy Star compliant) is a Digital Cable Card Home Entertainment PC from Velocity Micro. Companies such as Velocity Micro, HP, and others are beginning to ship PC's capable of HDTV with Windows Vista using Windows Media Center. These PC's come with a special HD tuner with a slot for a special card called a CableCard. These CableCards enable HD capabilities through your digital cable service and are available through your digital cable providers (for example I received my CableCard from Comcast).

Through my digital cable package I have with Comcast, I get several HD channels that work wonderfully with my Digital Cable Card PC and Windows Vista. Today, UHD - the Universal HD channel - is broadcasting Live Earth in HD all day as the concerts take place across the world.

Here is a video I shot of the Foo Fighters playing in London to show the setup I currently have running:


Video: Live Earth in HD on Windows Media Center

In the coming weeks, I plan to cover very extensively the HD capabilities and scenarios that Windows Vista supports which include the use of CableCards for HDTV content with Windows Media Center. I plan to dive real deep with explaining how it all works together with Windows Vista.

Now - off to replace all my old incandescent light bulbs with new fluorescent light bulbs.

JUL 08
 

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JUL 08
 

Posted by Good_Bytes

"fluorescent light bulb"

I like my water clean please! that is, without mercury!

Those light bulb has a lot of mercury, yet it's not in complain because no one cares about our water... no... we are under the hype that having an unstable weather (like we had since earth was born, with proof that a similar climate change already occurred several time in the past [Discovery channel], and not all the poler ice melted, same now. Moreover penguins and polar bears can swim for very very long distance. Both animals has a system well optimized to very long and deep swim. They can easily travel under water down to the top Canadian island.

Industries and politicians and government are happy with it. They have a reason to tax you about on anything they want, ban certain products to help other companies (which the gov and politicians invest (like those companies that make the energy efficient bulb). Moreover, industries can, without anyone notice trow their dirty fluids in our lakes and oceans, as no one seams to care.

Now as this might seams a bit ridiculous for some, fine I got no problem with that, it good that we can have clean air. Heck we can all live and be happy in a smog free environment. But no one cares now about Trees being curring down and our water. You need water and air to live, even under water.

In addition, I invite you all to listen to this:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/audio/060707rothschild.mp3

(found on prisonplanet.com website)
JUL 10
 

Posted by gkeramidas

why do i need tha piece of junk flash to watch a video? you wathced on an mpc, make the windows vieo avaialble. i'll never install that piece of junk on any of my pc's.
JUL 12
 

Posted by dyarhi

Really, I think wasting time on a very commercial

event disguising itself as a "Save the World" promotion, instead of working on current Vista problems is a total inefficient use of time and resources.

Global warming MAY be happening, but there is NO scientific basis for the Gore/Inconvenient Truth misguided assertions. Don't believe me - run a search for "Open Kyoto to Debate" you'll see 60 accredited and accomplished scientists sign their names to a letter that echoes this.

Meantime, Windows Explorer shuts down on me randomly, I have problems with Readyboost - can't shut it off, can't use my 2GB flash drive any more and my screen goes black on a random basis for 1 1/2 to 2 seconds. All this since I upgraded to Vista Home Premium from XP.
JUL 12
 

Posted by Brandon LeBlanc

dyarhi, just as an disclaimer - Microsoft never diverted the energy and resources of the Windows team away from their work for Live Earth.

I apologize for the problems you are experiencing since your upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premium. I recommend visiting the Public Windows Vista Newsgroups and post about the issues you are having there:

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx. There are folks there from Microsoft who may be able to help with your issues.

- Brandon
JUL 13
 

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JUL 16
 

Posted by whyjoe

Oh, forgive the aparrently troglodytic commenters who've come before me to cry that global warming isn't real, when we all know the REAL issue is... Windows Vista doesn't support CableCARD for beige-box PCs!!!!!!  :-D

Arrg! Why would we talk about the destruction of the planet when this horrible injustice is foisted upon we now HD-spoiled, nerdly box builders!!!

Okay, my tone is jocular, but I'm serious about how rediculous it is. I know, I know, 'CableLabs made us.' Yeah, yeah! You're Microsoft! How about showing a little pluck. Look at Apple and the recording industry.

To sum up: The world is going to be destroyed, but, before that happens, I WANT TO HAVE HD ON MY HOME-BUILT MCPC!!!!!!!

:-P
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