Today it was announced that Life|ware will power Disney’s new ultimate digital home attraction set to open at Disneyland this May and run for the next five years. In addition to Disney, Life|ware is partnered with HP and Microsoft on this project.

Check CEPro (02.18.2008) for more details:

3 Million Disney Visitors Per Year to Experience Media Center and Lifeware Automation

From Chris Lanier’s Blog:

Anthony Park has just released MyNetflix for Vista Media Center. This incredible MCML plug-in has a host of features including “Watch Now” streaming ability!

Check out Chris Lanier’s Blog for more information and download links. Also, anyone with Netflix, let us know how it works!

[UPDATE] Engadget is reporting that Netflix is looking to making streaming movies to the Xbox available as well! Article here.

Nominations are out, and EI is up for two CEA Mark of Excellence awards! Life|ware 2.0.3 has been nominated in the “Best Control System” category, and Life|media LMS 754 media server in the “Best Media Server” category.

Check out all the nominations at the CEA website.

Winners will be announced at an awards dinner on Friday, March 14, 2008 at the Rosen Centre Hotel, during the ninth annual Electronic House Expo (EHX) Spring 2008, in Orlando, Florida, March 11-15.

Like many of you out there, I haven’t always purchased the very latest technology (OK, I usually wait until it gets cheap). You may have an analog video camera you’re still using because hey, it still WORKS. Or a VCR that you hang on to because you have home movies from your kids’ first Christmas, or wedding tapes. But old tapes can deteriorate, and you may find in any case that you’d like to be able to preserve and store some of these memories, or share them or burn them to DVD if only you could get them onto your Media Center.

In my case, my boyfriend used my VHS-C camcorder to record a local band’s performance, and wanted to be able to give them a DVD of it. “Sure, we can do that!” I said. But it was a little bit more complicated than I expected.

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Hey, Life|ware Dealers:

Log in to Life|ware University for one of several online webinars on our new configuration tool, Life|ware Visual Project. Classes are for certified dealers ONLY, are NOT a re-certification, and dealers are not required to attend.

There is a technological limit of 14 students per class. If these classes fill up we will add more as needed.

We recommend that dealers access the class with a desktop PC and have a secondary PC (laptop) available with 2.0.3 loaded to launch VP and follow along with demonstrations and exercises.

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