BBC Radio Plugin for Media Center

sarahintampa — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:05:00 GMT

For Brits, or anyone else who enjoys BBC radio, there’s now a new plugin for Vista Media Center that lets you listen to BBC Radio from within Media Center: BeebMC. This plugin is pretty cool, but there are a couple of downsides that you should be aware of: 1) it uses Real Player to do the streaming (so you need to have that installed in order to use it) and 2) it doesn’t work with extenders. Both of these problems have to do with the fact that the BBC streams their radio via Real Audio, an unfortunate choice on their part considering how many different options there are today. Still, if you’re interested in listening to the British perspective on things, this could be a fun way to do so using your Media Center PC. You can download the plugin from here.

(via We Got Served)

BBC Launches Six Photosynth Collections

Larry — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:00:00 GMT

The BBC in conjunction with Microsoft Live Labs has launched six photosynth collections including the following areas Ely Cathedral, Burghley House, Royal Cresent, Blackpool Tower Ballroom, Scottish Parliament Building, and Trafalgar Square.

The screenshot at left is the stained glass in Ely Cathedral. Don't forget you can use the wheel on your mouse to zoom in and see all the detail.

If you're not familiar with Photosynth, you can check out this TED talk from Blaise Aguera y Arcas, the lead behind Photosynth. We got a chance to talk to Blaise before CES in January, he's one of those amazing personalities where several minutes into the conversation you realize he's working with a completely different processor than the rest of us.

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BBC Radio Plugin for Media Center

BBC Launches Six Photosynth Collections