Microsoft Introduces $10,000 Digital Home Makeover Contest

To celebrate the consumer availability of new Extenders for Windows Media Center, the Windows Media Center team is today unveiling a Digital Home Makeover Contest. For one lucky winner, the makeover team will transform their disconnected digital lifestyle into a home entertainment dream with a prize package totaling up to $10,000.

The Digital Home Makeover Contest is designed to address the real challenges people face when adopting today’s digital lifestyle. Today’s consumers have a wide variety of digital content in their homes — thousands of digital pictures, MP3’s, TV shows and movies — and homes may have dozens of devices which allow people to interact with and enjoy this content. But wouldn’t it be nice if digital media could be seamlessly viewed and accessible across all these devices?

With a prize package that will include a new PC with Windows Media Center, Extenders for Windows Media Center, flat screen television and video-capable wireless home networking, the winner of the Digital Home Makeover Contest will receive what they need to take control of connecting their entertainment options and start enjoying content from room to room, anywhere in the house. Microsoft is accepting entries in the form of two minute videos that illustrate a contestant’s disconnected digital lifestyle and why they need a digital home makeover. Entries will be accepted through April 18 and the winner of the Digital Home Makeover will be announced by April 30, 2008.

“Connected entertainment is all about enjoying high quality digital content both on your PC and on TV sets around the home,” said Ron Pessner, general manager for Windows Media Center. “We are excited to bring that vision to life today with the technology behind Windows Media Center and Media Center Extenders.”

More information about the contest and new Extenders for Windows Media Center is available here.

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