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If you currently considering purchasing either a Microsoft Media Center or Apple FrontRow, please wait a couple of minutes and read the follwing comments from differnet parties, it’ll help you make the decision. As for me, I’d love to own them both, next to each other, and after a month I’d have my opinion.

• Om Malik summarizes the general discussion in this post of his.
• Here is the talk leaning from Apple lovers.
• Charlie Owen says “Steve Jobs comparing the Apple remote control with the Media Center remote control was nothing but sheer marketing brilliance. It’s totally not about which remote control is better. Not at all. By making this comparison, Steve Jobs gave the illusion the two products were on equal footing EXCEPT for the remote. All things being equal, Joe Consumer will choose the remote with 6 buttons instead of 40″
• Thomas Hawk follows up with “Yes Charlie, but at the end of the day it’s smoke and mirrors marketing and people are smarter than that. Apple: 1. No HDTV, oh yeah, no TV period (although you can pay for TV and download crappy low res unwatchable video). 2. No extender technology, 3. More expensive. 4. You have to buy a crappy monitor with every computer (it’s really amazing that they didn’t roll this out on the Mac Mini). 5. No dual tuner, heck no tuner, heck no PVR. 6. I’m assuming that their music only works with ITunes (something I’ve tried and would rather not have installed on my computer).”

posted by Editor at 8:21 am & filed under Home Audio, Home Audio/Sound, Home Video, Home Video/Visual |