Behind the scenes with the Windows Media Center dev team

Windows Media Center fan and photographer Thomas Hawk recently got to visit the people behind the platform, returning with pics of the people who put the product together and a few of the tools used to make it happen. Captured above is the team's listening room (also used by other AV teams working on Windows Media Player, codecs, etc.), unfortunately there aren't any snaps of future upgrades and projects from the team, but if you use it, be sure to hit the read link and find out a bit more about where and who it comes from.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 5th 2008 3:18PM]

All this equipment and all they can come up with is crap!?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 5th 2008 8:32PM]

Man, being Microsoft, I would think they could afford a larger television.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 6th 2008 12:36AM]

No wonder media center sucks, they have no concept of how to setup a theater, or even the most basic concepts of what 5.1 is. Holy shit, that is shameful. :o\

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 6th 2008 12:38AM]

Maybe we just can't see the rear channels in the room, looks like they have studio monitors with the blue lights as front center and right, plus a stereo pair for testing... Media center still sucks though...

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 7th 2008 8:30AM]

Given the shape of the room, the *side* speakers are nowhere in sight though.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 7th 2008 8:26AM]

Please don't tell me that's how they think 7.1ch speakers are supposed to be set up. And this is their listening room?