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A number of partners of Microsoft intends new Windows Media Extenders on the market to bring. The second generation extensions for a Windows Media Center-pc has a lot of more features on board. Sensational is the promise that the Extenders also DivX- and Xvid-movies will play - a possibility opposite which Microsoft in the past huiverachtig stood.

The Extender-draft is nothing news. Boxes that you connect with a television and that about the network video play, that on a Windows Media Center-pc parked stand, are already a time available. Also the Xbox 360 can work as an Extender.

Among many D-link and Linksys again have been represented in the next generation Extenders that appeared in the coming months in the stores. In a number of cases, the round separate boxes goes, but in some cases, Windows Media Extender-positions will become built in in dvd-players and even tv sets.

The most important improvement - next to the support for DivX and Xvid - is can zero arranged makes that the new apparatuses in on a wireless IEEE802.11n-network, what they better to look at highdefinitionvideo. That is certain the intention, appeared whatever from the extensive support for Windows Media Video HD.

Extenders will hold also bill with the parental controls On the Windows Media Center-pc. It thus will not can that a video that on the computer in the hobby room because of parental difficulties not to look at is, source plays on the Extender in the childerslaapkamer.