Windows Media Center Extenders

[colts21]

OK, I came home from work last week at 8am and my Laptop that I have set up in my bedroom as my Desktop, where I aslo have my printer/Fax, my PS3, a Toshiba AD-3 HD DVD player, and a Digital Cable HD DVR Box had a strange icon on the taskbar. I moved the curser down to it and it said Extender Detected?? I used my Media Center, I always have my tuner card in. I ended up going to sleep for a few hours my PC went into sleep mode then when I got up it was gone. Question: does anyone know if any of those could have acted as extender or what could have been acting as an Extender. I can Stream music and pictures from media player with the PS3, but I've been reading around and I can't find anything that says you can use a PS3 as Extender yet. The only thing I could think of is if someone living next to me has an Xbox, but that's not likely??

If anyone knows, or thinks they might know what it could have been I'd really appreciate any help or feedback. You can email me at girton2020@yahoo.com THANKS:confused:

[cyberjak]

OK, I came home from work last week at 8am and my Laptop that I have set up in my bedroom as my Desktop, where I aslo have my printer/Fax, my PS3, a Toshiba AD-3 HD DVD player, and a Digital Cable HD DVR Box had a strange icon on the taskbar. I moved the curser down to it and it said Extender Detected?? I used my Media Center, I always have my tuner card in. I ended up going to sleep for a few hours my PC went into sleep mode then when I got up it was gone. Question: does anyone know if any of those could have acted as extender or what could have been acting as an Extender. I can Stream music and pictures from media player with the PS3, but I've been reading around and I can't find anything that says you can use a PS3 as Extender yet. The only thing I could think of is if someone living next to me has an Xbox, but that's not likely??

If anyone knows, or thinks they might know what it could have been I'd really appreciate any help or feedback. You can email me at girton2020@yahoo.com THANKS:confused:

it will say that if it finds another pc running orb or windows vista on the same network
could have been another pc on your network or possibly the ps3 if it has media sharing ability.

[rorydaredkign]

ps3 can definitely be uased as a MCE. It just isnt recognised fully by windows, it gets called unknown device
Rory

[mchapman007]

When I hooked up my Xbox 360 it did the same thing. It had to do with the built in Media Center w/ Vista. As you can connect or sync the two together.