Chapter 10. Customizing Windows Media
The major media components in Windows 7 have been updated and enhanced to help you experience the very best your hardware can provide. Windows Media Player also received a major upgrade that improved performance and added dozens of cool features to help you browse your media collection. Windows Media Center has undergone a major upgrade, adding support for new technologies such as high-definition cable cards, IPTV, and an updated interface that looks amazing on your monitor or a high-definition TV.
This chapter shows you how to customize your experience by taking advantage of some of these new features and fine-tuning how they work. To get started, you are going to use some great new audio enhancements to tweak how all types of media sound on your computer.
Adjusting Your Audio Experience
The audio system has gone through a major upgrade in the kernel that is at the heart of Windows 7. There are countless new features, such as the ability to control the volume per application, as well as many others that are unnoticed by the end user and hidden away. This section talks about those lesser-known features and shows you how to take your audio experience to the next level. To do this, you are going to enable and tweak the new sound enhancements available on all newer high-definition audio cards.
The new audio enhancements are a collection of effects that allow you to do everything from boosting the bass to optimizing your surround sound using a microphone ...
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