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BBC reader for Windows Media Center

  • Brian Butterworth

A reader for digital TV on Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.

(see http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/default.mspx)

The interface works with the remote control input of XPMCE to read BBC News stories. It needs more work to correctly show the full text of the story. It would be great if there were RSS feeds to BBC radio player and BBC news video feeds so they could be selected from MCE directly. A Radio interface would be very useful as XPMCE doesn't support DAB or DTT radio.

  • 13 May 2005 01:51 PM

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  • 1.
  • On 09 Jul 2005 12:02 AM,
  • Martin Millmore said:

This is an excellent idea, and really needs to be done!

  • 2.
  • On 18 Jul 2005 06:19 PM,
  • AndyC said:

This is not only a great idea, but relatively easy to implement. If the BBC will allow this to be developed, I would be willing to do it. I have held off developing an app that gets forced down once popular.

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