WHS Version 2 to Add Tuner Card Support ?

Ben Drawbaugh writes at engadgetHD "Is the future of Windows Media Center with Windows Home Server?"

Ben starts the discussion by stating:

Windows Home Server has become one of the best laptop companion accessories available today…We believe that the next version of WHS will also let you add tuner support and will not only let you record your shows and watch live TV on an Extender, but it will also let you watch TV on your Windows 7 laptop.

Ben then asks the question why hasn’t Microsoft done this already?

That answer is actually pretty obvious if you know that current version of WHS is built on Windows 2003 Server. It was released in the Fall of 2007, about five months before Windows Server 2008 and about a year after Windows Vista. Obviously there wasn’t any point in including the older Media Center code in WHS, and with Server 2008 still off in the future, it couldn’t use Vista’s Media Center code either (Vista and Server 2008 share the same code base).

The article continues with Ben’s view on how this may happen and he brings USB tuner cards, Live Mesh and the rumored Zune HD into the equation.

You can read the full article here.

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