Windows Vista: DreamScene Preview released for Ultimate users

February 16th, 2007

If you’ve seen the Microsoft CES 2007 presentation you’ll have noticed the cool new video desktop feature. This a  available as free update for Vista Ultimate users. The Preview version of Dream scene was released yesterday.

DreamScene supports WMV and MPG video files. It only comes with one sample video file (not the one from CES that is sold by Corbis) with subtle movements making it suitable for desktop background use. WinCustomise.com have made a DreamScene enhancement that allows it to support the newly created .dream files. You can also download about 15 videos on the site.

Lots of forums are getting floods of requests for HD or DreamScene suitable video. Some good ones can be found here. There is definitely a market out there for a company to sell high-quality DreamScene desktops.

If you have Vista Ultimate do a Windows update and look for an optional Ultimate Extra called DreamScene Preview.

Some DreamScene videos in action:

This video demos not only dream scene but also windows sidebar Gadgets, Vista Aero effects, Flip3D, Windows media player 11, Vista image preview and more.

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4 Responses to “Windows Vista: DreamScene Preview released for Ultimate users”

  1. creativeguy on January 19, 2008 6:15 am

    Came across this site http://www.vistahd.org/ giving free dreamscenes.have been visiting the site regularly and they update the site with 2 scenes everyday.but the timings of updates are not fixed. some of the scenes are pretty good.

  2. dreamer on April 8, 2008 2:21 pm

    Yeah, DreamScene is great !!! i use the orginal Microsoft version on my Vista PC, and XPScene (freeware) on my old XP system. btw. i’ve found lots of free dreamscenes (WMVs) on http://www.dreamscene.org ;)

  3. iphone games music on July 19, 2008 4:01 pm

    Nice blog, i have added it to my favourites, greetings

  4. dream lover on August 4, 2008 11:29 am

    visit http//www.vistahd.org for free dreamscenes in mpg format no registration required just download…. & use as dreamscene or stock footage, there are more than 500s of dreamscenes for freee

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