DVD streaming on Media Center extenders?

This post by Media Center enthusiast Jerold Billings from the TGB @ CES blog is generating a lot of buzz for its hint that an update to Media Center might be coming later this year. It also includes confirmation that Microsoft is working on a feature to allow DVD streaming over extenders.

Before anyone gets too excited, scroll down to the comments, where the source of much of this information, Microsoft’s Jessica Zahn, tries to dial back some of the speculation:

Did you really write that? REALLY?
I might have further response to this post later; I think a couple of things were inadvertently misconstrued, but I need to make sure I say the right things.

I’ll see if I can track anyone down for more comments.

Update: Jessica did indeed add that "further response," which included this explanation of the DVD streaming confusion:

On DVD streaming: I think what I said here was that there is a compelling "soccer mom" scenario. As a mother, I know first-hand how many DVDs get scratched, lost, or damaged by my children. I’d love to throw all my DVDs into a changer and remote them to wherever in my house.

However, we haven’t announced this as a feature included in any future release. We play with all kinds of ideas - we’re software developers, after all, we have to prototype things! - but whether and how they make it into our products is another story.

There’s more, so go read her whole comment if this stuff interests you. Oh, and when I ran into Jessica at Ian Dixon’s Media Center meet-up at CES, I learned that she is moving off the Media Center team and as of tomorrow is going to be working on the Zune team. Best of luck, Jessica!