XP Media center?

[pinkpanther56]

Hi all

I'm buying a new PC (toy) for home use and the standard package comes with Media Center 2005, there is an option to upgrade to XP Pro for an extra £25.

What do you recommend?

Is media center based on XP home?

Cheers.

 

[Ploper001]

Media Center 2005 is based on Home yes. To my knowledge, the only thing you cannot do is join a Domain (it's greyed out in System Properties)...although there is an option to join a Domain during install, so maybe even that's possible.

Plus, Media Center is actually good for DVDs in my experience (WMP10 doesn't support widescreen monitors properly - it has black borders at the sides and top and bottom (i.e. it doesn't correctly use Anamorphic 16:9 or zoom in) when playing a widescreen DVD on a widescreen monitor, whereas Media Center does).

 

[pinkpanther56]

Cool i think that's the ticket for the home PC then.

I'm surprised it costs less than Pro.