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With the launch of a new smaller, silent Xbox 360, many existing console owners will be thinking of upgrading to the latest model. As outlined in our hands on review this week, the Xbox 360 S can serve as a great digital media receiver – small enough to fit neatly under the TV, silent running, HDMI & optical audio output plus full compatibility with Windows Media Center. If you’re going to upgrade, then you can still use your existing Xbox 360 in another room, but you’ll need to migrate your game saves, Xbox Live account and other downloaded content from your old Xbox 360 to the new console. That job is made a lot easier with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Data Transfer ...

Whilst Windows Home Server v1 offers very limited remote media sharing capabilities, the experience of trying to access your music, video and photos on the road leaves a lot to be desired. HP have attempted to improve things on the MediaSmart Server with their Web Streaming application and iStream iPhone App, but those solutions too have their issues (at least for me). One third-party solution which works reasonably well is Orb, which includes a web client for a PC or Mac as well as an iPhone app.
Today, we’re going to take a look at a brand new service called HomePipe, which allows the streaming of music, movies and photos from a PC, Mac or Windows Home Server over to a mobile device – that could be a laptop, netbook or mobile phone (iPhone and Android apps are available and other smartphones should be able to access your media via the web browser). Here’s how they describe the service: ...