Chapter 15. Using Windows Media Center

Setting Up and Customizing Media Center

Mastering the Media Center Interface

Playing Music, Pictures, Videos, and Movies

Recording and Watching TV

Using an Xbox 360 as a Media Center Extender

WHEN you picture a media center, you probably imagine it in the living room, hooked up to a widescreen high-definition TV and a surround-sound system. But the Windows Media Center interface is also at home in dorm rooms, hotel rooms, offices, bedrooms, and other relatively small places where a computer display is big enough to stand in for a TV and where you can use a remote control or a mouse to operate a jukebox filled with music, movies, slide shows, and videos.

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