Windows Media Center 2006?

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2317&p=5' target='_blank'>http://anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2317&p=5</a><br /><br /></div>Anand Lal Shimpi has <a href="http://anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2317&p=5">more details on the slim-line Shuttle XPC</a>, but what caught my interest was this quote from him:<br /><br /><i>"The next version of Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition due out in Q3 will support cable card and content protected HDTV content over digital cable services, making this device actually useful from a HDTV standpoint."</i><br /><br />That's the first I've heard of a newer version of MCE, and if that quote is accurate and we'll get access to encrypted HDTV from our digital cable boxes, well, that will be reason enough for me to put a PC back in my TV room. :D

[Wilbert]

8O WHAT! I just got my MCE 2005 today from Dell. I know that MS has had a MCE 2003, 2004 and even a 2005 but come on, how much longer do we have to do this routine.

I did read on a different MCE site that what is comming out in the 2nd or 3rd qtr is not a upgrade but more of an update to MCE 2005. I hope THIS is the case as this would allow everyone to keep their systems.