Connecting and Using a Media Center Extender
Your PC is in the den, hooked up to a cable connection and dutifully recording your favorite programs to a large hard disk. Your most comfortable chair is in the living room, opposite a large-screen TV. How do you get the content off the PC and onto the big screen? One excellent option is a Media Center Extender.
A Media Center Extender is a self-contained hardware device that connects directly to your home entertainment system and communicates over a network with a Media Center PC. The first generation of Media Center Extenders arrived in 2004 and are compatible only with Windows XP Media Center Edition. As we write this, the only extender device compatible with Windows Vista Media Center is Microsoft’s ...
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