Home Networks research company Parks Associates has delivered a damning verdict to PC based suppliers of media servers, with a survey which shows that US families are looking to buy such a device from CE brands like Sony, Panasonic or Pioneer, and not from Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard or Gateway.

Also, check out these notes on Windows Media Center: they're purely bid'ness oriented, but interesting nonetheless, e.g., a $1,000 remote control?