There comes a point in every person’s life where they must ask themselves a couple of extremely important and life changing questions. Firstly, wouldn’t it be amazing if there were some way to control my Windows Media Centre using an application on my phone, and secondly, why hasn’t someone, perhaps some group of brilliant, bearded men, created this amazing application? Well question no more, mortal, for The Land Dolphin lurches forth ready to spew out said amazing application all over everyone’s faces in a vile, despicable stream. Of course by “their faces” I mean their “brand spanking new Windows Phone 7 devices”.
If that disgusting and altogether inaccurate description wasn’t enough to inform or terrify you, we’d like to take this opportunity to announce the first project to be developed by The Land Dolphin Collective: Meteor.
Meteor is the culmination of many months of brainstorming and torture in state of the art laboratories filled with equipment that would make Tesla and Genghis Khan both jealous and horrified in the same breath. It is an application that runs on your Windows Phone 7 device that, when coupled with a small service on your Windows Media Centre machine, allows you to remotely access and play all of your albums, TV shows and movies in a wonderful, integrated, “Metro” experience.
Meteor is personal – It’s your media library, it’s your media centre. Use it the way you like to.
Meteor is relevant – You should know what’s going on just by looking at your device. What have you already watched or listened to?
Meteor is connected – Would you like to be reminded of something when you’re not at home? Would you like to be surprised when you’re reminded of something you’d forgotten about?
Meteor is something that we’re pretty proud of, and that’s one of the things we want to emphasise. If we didn’t think this would be a cool, integrated and ultimately useful experience, then we wouldn’t do it. So we hope that you all think the same way.
Nobody thinks the same way as you, Ben
only one of you is capable of growing enough facial hair to be deemed “bearded man”
Hehe, yeah, after reading that through again you’re right. There is definitely something wrong with me
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Just to be clear – the music is still streaming through W7, right? In other words, playing the media triggers your PC to pay the song, but you don’t play the song on WP7 (like Didiom does for 6.5). Thanks for the clarification
Yes, this is a remote control application for your WP7 device. It will control what is played by your W7 Media Centre.
What a great little app this could be. It’s because of projects like this is the reason why I’m definitely getting a Windows Phone 7 phone this holiday season.
cool I’ll make sure to use this when I get my Windows Phone 7. I really liked the use metal albums in the screenshots, but the new Keep of Kalessin isn’t very good
Pffft. Prepubescent dreams of manly body hair.
Good luck with the app.
I was hoping that somebody did this for WP7. Thanks! Could you please go into a bit more detail about the features of your app & service?
Would it be possible to play stuff on connected Extenders like my Xbox or will it only work on the PC hosting the MediaCenter.
Wow! Awesome job, can’t wait to get all of this
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Does this require a wireless connection or will it be able to work via a cellular connection as well?
Will you have a newletter signup to allow is to get announcements on its release?
Thank you…since 2005 I’ve been waiting for this.
Let me know when I can have it…obviously after I’ve got my phone!
Cheers Charlie, we can’t wait to get it working on a our devices when they become available, too
Excellent work guys… As a UK Microsoft FTE, this looks like a great application… Just what we’re hoping for to build out a great range of applications for WP7. Can’t wait to try it out!
Thanks Richard, we can’t wait to get this out to people, going to be a long few weeks til the platform’s released
Brilliant, this is brilliant! i just subscribed to your RSS to know when we can install the bits from the WP7 marketplace. I can’t wait.
Viewing the above, this tool is probably not a good view to try
when you need to pick penny stock options by yourself, naturally of
whether and / or not you probably are an experienced buyer.
On the other hand, investments are ready for few days to several prolonged time.