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The X-Box Extender is a simple, easy-to-use way to extend your Media Center experience to other TVs in your house.  The following is from Microsoft's website -

Bring the Media Center PC experience to the Xbox console

Media Center Extender for Xbox is a new Xbox title that streams the Media Center PC entertainment experiences onto your TV or display through your Xbox console, so you have even more choice in where and how you enjoy their digital entertainment.

Media Center Extender for Xbox is a packaged software product from Microsoft that runs as an Xbox game. With a wired or wireless connection1 to the Media Center PC, the Xbox console now allows you to enjoy the digital entertainment media from the PC when and how you want.

Store all your digital media on your Media Center PC — photos, music, videos, live and recorded TV — and bring it all to life throughout your home through the Xbox console. The Windows Media Center Extender for Xbox also supports DVD movie playback. The product includes the following components in the package:

• A remote control
• An infrared receiver
• Setup guide
• Media Center Extender for Xbox DVD
• Media Center Extender for Xbox setup CD (one time install on your Media Center PC)
• 2 AA batteries
• Networking poster

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Here are just a few of benefits of Windows Media Center Extender for Xbox:

Extend the Windows XP Media Center Edition experience to TVs throughout the house

Insert the Media Center Extender for Xbox DVD into your Xbox and bring the familiar Windows XP Media Center Edition experience to any console and TV display in your home. Same interface, functionality, and user experience — now available anywhere on the home network.
HAI introduces a cool new way to control your home, from the comfort of your easy chair...

HAI Home Control for Windows Media Center

HAI’s new Home Control for Windows Media Center is software for Windows Media Centers that allow you to control all of your HAI Omni features from the comfort of an easy chair using a single Media Center remote. It provides an affordable and complete home control system with a familiar and user friendly interface by:
  • allowing control of HAI Omni features from the comfort of an easy chair on a TV
  • providing UL-listed security, lighting control, temperature control, access to all media, including family photos, music, video, email, and Internet access from a single handheld remote
  • all at a fraction of the cost previously available
 

 

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