Friday, September 05, 2008

Store your Media Center TV recordings on your Windows Home Server via the TV Manager v1.0 add-in

Brent's Blog - TV Manager 1.0

“It is finally here, TV Manager 1.0! TV Manager is a Windows Home Server add-in that lets you move your recordings to your Windows Home Server for management and storage.

The biggest feature of TV Manager is the ability to watch your recordings in Media Center as if they were sitting in your Media Center record path.

You can delete recordings from the Windows Home Server Console or using Media Center. You can also play the recordings on non-Media Center PCs using the Windows Home Server Console or Windows Explorer.

TV Manager is free of charge and the client works with Windows XP Media Center 2005 and Vista Media Center. The TV Manager add-in works with or without Windows Home Server Power Pack 1.

Client Requirements:

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Okay, I have neither a Home Server or Media Center (besides the Vista on my notebook, which I’m not counting), but I want both (I really miss my Media Center…), so am noting this for future reference.

This seems to make perfect sense, hooking the two together. Let Media Center do what it does best, and leave the storage to the Home Server. And if the Media Center takes a dive, you can still access and view the previously recorded shows… Nice.

 

(via The Road to Know Where - Free "TV Manager" for Microsoft's Windows Home Server)

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