December 15th, 2006: equinux’ media center solution, MediaCentral 2.5, expands its feature set within the DVD module. Users can now enjoy watching their favorite DVDs in Dolby® Digital Surround sound. Settings for sound, audio tracks, subtitles and angles can be changed either via keystrokes or within the new DVD Options Menu. This content menu elegantly fades in over the screen while watching a movie.
All of MediaCentral’s features benefit from a variety of performance enhancements integrated into this latest release. The speed of navigating through large DVD libraries has been greatly improved.
MediaCentral 2.5 explores the world – thanks to equinux’ steadily growing community, MediaCentral is now available in 13 different languages. In addition to English, German, French, Italian, Danish, Russian and Traditional Chinese, the popular software is now also offered in Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Spanish, Dutch and Czech.
Additionally, this latest realease adds many minor enhancements, improved stability and bugfixes to assure optimal media center feeling.
Availability
MediaCentral 2.5 is available immediately and can be purchased at local Apple retailers
or in the equinux online store.
MediaCentral can be downloaded at
http://www.equinux.com/mediacentral/download. This update is free for all registered users of MediaCentral 2.x.
We just plopped the down the review for Equinux’s MediaCentral and if you’re interested in taking your Mac to the next level beyond Front Row, then you’ll want to take a read of our review. Filled with details of what’s new from version one to what doesn’t really work, we think you’ll learn from our difficult and tasking labors of watching hours of video!
We really loved playing with it for the last six weeks and we’re sure that you will love playing with it, too. Oops, did we just give it all away? No, not quite. Now go read!
SvenOnTech told you about MediaCentral a while back after we couldn’t get Front Row to play MPEG2 formatted movies. We feel in love with the easy to use Front Row-like software and now equinux has just released for the Mac worlds enjoyment, 2.0.
MediaCentral 2.0 is filled with amazing new features such as support for IP TV, direct viewing of YouTube and Google videos, videos and music from iTunes, picture feeds, Windows Media plug-ins, and hold on to your hats, full-screen video games from the ’80s! Sweeeet!
Upon using MediaCentral 1.x, we here at SvenOnTech figured that equinux was playing crack dealer ’cause how it could release such a great software package without any cost associated to it was too hard to believe. Sure enough, now that many are probably hooked and with the slew of extra yummy features in 2.0, there is now a fee for your next fix. Yet for all that you are getting for the price MediaCentral 2.0 is asking for, it really still is a steal. You can try it out before you pony up the $30, so give it a shot and, well, we have a feeling you’ll be buying it anyway. 