Chapter 12. Have Fun with Media Center

  • Burn a CD

  • Burn a DVD

  • Create a DVD slide show of pictures with background music

  • Listen to free online music and radio stations

  • Explore remote control options

  • Command Media Center with your voice

There’s no point in having Windows Media Center if you can’t have a little fun with it, right? And there are so many different ways to have that fun! For us, fun often involves music and pictures—and when they are in combination, it’s even better. For our spouses, fun means using a remote control and speech recognition to run the TV, stereo, computer, and other features of Media Center. Whatever your idea of fun, we’re betting you’ll have some as you try a few tasks in this chapter. Oh, sure, there’s a bit of work to be ...

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