A few days ago I wrote about a new update available from Microsoft, the October 2006 Update Rollup for MCE, and it seems like there may be some issues with the patch. Some readers left comments for the post and there seems to be problems related to the update.
Chris was having trouble with what appears to be a DRM issue and Mike seemed to be having a slew of issues, including network cutouts, video decoding problems and stability issues. I myself have also had an issue with my MCE which required me to start rebuilding it last night, however I can not confirm that it is due directly to this patch.
Further to our own readers, The Green Button has a forum post in which a couple of other people have started to experience problems shortly after installing the update. The issues over there seem to be DRM related as well.
So if you were thinking about applying this update, you may want to wait and see what happens, particularly you may want to watch out for more information about this patch. And if you are already affected, feel free to write about it and maybe we can figure something out as a community.
1. AMC has been having problems before the update. Tuner drivers and the broadcaster are two issues to look into when this happens for a single channel. It's been common with Media Center and TiVo that broadcasters will "accidentally" enable Macrovision and/or CGMS-A protection and thus disable recording.
Chris
Posted at 3:16PM on Oct 27th 2006 by Chris Lanier