Vista Beta 2 Ultimate turbo nutter edition comes with Media Center built in. So I thought I’d try it with the 360 to see what it gives me over the simple Media Extender I’ve been using with XP.
Well it doesn’t… work that is. Seems the latest beta of Vista, although downloaded from the UK locale only works with Region 1 DVD Xbox 360. So I got an ‘Invalid Region’ error.
Some more info is presented on the MS newgroups and appears many people are having the same problem. Maybe it’ll be fixed in Beta, who knows? Otherwise I’ll be waiting for the RTM of Vista. By then I’ll probably have another Mac though.
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It’s a known issue, you can try to get onto the beta test for the functionality, but it’s closed now, and was only open to US people anyhow.
I did notice that they said it will be opened up to non US people soon, so perhaps that will ‘fix’ it.
I did have a look at changing the region on the XEX that gets downloaded, but then it complains that it’s been tampered with. Oh well.