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    Dell Studio and Media Direct

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by yokojess, Aug 3, 2008.

  1. yokojess

    yokojess Newbie

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    Hi everybody
    I'm (almost) buying a dell studio 17 but first I have a question
    Since I cant't see a Dell Media Direct button on the studio's keyboard, how does it work?
    Can I boot directly on Media Direct?

    (btw is the remote inclued with the studio 17?)
     
    yokojess, Aug 3, 2008
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  2. lotta221211

    lotta221211 Notebook Evangelist

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    The remote isn't included. It is a $14.00 optional choice under "select my multi-media accessories".

    I don't know about your first question.
     
    lotta221211, Aug 3, 2008
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  3. DDGuy

    DDGuy Notebook Geek

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    I can answer that. In Studio (in 15 atleast and I am almost positive on 17 too) the Media Direct is actually totally useless in its original intent. The much touted Media Direct 4 runs as an application on top of Vista (not like previous MD, which I think used to boot in a Linux mini kernel) and so when you press the MD4 home button in a shutdown Studio, all you get is the usual Vista start-up and then MD4 will kick in. So in a nut shell, in a powered down laptop, MD 4 button doubles up as another Power button (touch sensitive Power button, if you like :) )

    Once running nothing much wrong with the application per se, but then if you have Vista Premium or Ultimate you any way have Media Center which does exactly what all MD4 can do. Although to my ear the movie sound playback in MD4 does appear somewhat better (perhaps due to all the special effects Dell claim to apply in MD4....or is it my subconscious mind trying to justify MD4, LOL !!!)
     
    DDGuy, Aug 4, 2008
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