So I got my Windows 7 Ultimate Signature edition in the mail Monday. I received it a couple weeks early because I signed up to be a host on HouseParty.com.
I decided I would install it on my desktop I have setup in the living room. Since my windows laptop seems to be sketchy these days and I dont really ever use the Windows XP virtual machine I have installed on my Macbook Pro now. I use the desktop mainly for hosting media files and playing videos from the net on the LCD in the living room anyways and I have heard the updates to windows media center were nice.
Setup went pretty easy but it did take awhile because it backed up my old windows install with all of my files to a folder on the c:\ drive. Which was nice but considering I spent the time before running the install to do this myself it was unnecessary.
Once installed it began to do updates. After three rounds of update it said everything was good to go. The updates were mostly for hardware. Did updates for audio driver, video cards, network cards and such. Which once again was a nice gesture on their part. But this leads to my slight disappointment. The computer I installed it on is hooked to my 40 inch LCD. There doesn’t seem to be an screen resolution compatible with the video card i have to match my TV. Which is strange because it worked fine when I had Vista installed.
So seeing how the aspect ratio is all kind of messed up I haven’t played with it much more. I;m trying to decide if I wanna lay down a few bucks and get a new video card and some more ram or just forget about it. I use my Macbook more than any other computer so I dont really need that computer.
But one thing I found in the mean time was DirecTV has come out with streaming to a PC. They call it DIRECTV2PC. This does require more ram and a 512mb or 1gb video card which has got me thinking I might just do an upgrade.