Using Windows Media Center

Windows Media Center is a powerful program that produces a user-friendly environment so that you can watch TV and movies, show off your pictures, listen to your music, and much, much more. What you can do with Windows Media Center depends very much on the equipment that you have, such as a TV tuner or a cable card and lots of disk space, and whether you have access to high-definition video. You can even link up an Xbox 360 or other type of extender accessory over your network to extend Media Center away from your main computer and throughout your house. Media Center, however, is available only in Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate versions.

The following tables show you what you can do and how you can ...

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