Experience the media center function in win7 (1)

  
        Windows 7 is gradually accepted by users. More and more people have already adopted Windows 7 as their preferred operating system. Mainly because of the many new features added in Windows 7, we will introduce one of them to you today - Media Center. In Windows 7, Windows Media Center is more useful than any previous version of Windows audio-visual media. The following describes the media center TV installation process, digital broadcast TV support, program guide, Internet TV, access to the media center from the desktop, for images, music playback of RAW file support, take a look at it.

digital broadcast television

in Vista, the treatment level wireless digital ATSC broadcast television is very poor. If you use an ATSC antenna, the TV installation process takes longer, and after you install the digital channel, these channels are assigned a four-digit channel number that is spread away from the analog channel. Windows 7 simplifies the installation process and the use of digital broadcast TV. When we run the Live TV installation option in the TV menu control, Windows 7 determines the digital TV channel and assigns it. X channel number, such as 14.1, 7.2, etc. in the program guide. If you look at all the digital TV channels specified by Windows 7, you don't have to worry about it.

However, there are some channels may not provide a strong enough signal, especially when you use indoor antenna. In Windows 7, there are two ways to optimize ATSC digital TV quality: search for more channels and enhance the signal of the digital TV antenna. These two options can be found in the Tasks -> Settings -> TV -> TV signal. Searching for more channels can determine if we can choose the remaining digital TV channels. Next, the enhanced digital television antenna signal is used to search for the assigned digital television channel. In this process, the antenna can be adjusted to improve signal strength. Unselected channels will be removed from the program guide. Remember, if you have a better antenna, you can run these wizards again to see if you can get more channels.

Internet TV

There are three ways you can get Internet TV: 1 desktop accessories; 2 through the Media Center program guide; additional 3 via the Internet TV option menu control. Regardless of whether you use the TV adjustment period, the MSN channel will be displayed in the program guide. Windows 7 now includes a beta version of Internet TV.

first select Internet TV Beta 2, the system will be prompted to update the desktop player. Click "Update" to download and install the update file (2Mb). Although Windows Media Center still includes Internet TV 1.1 beta, Internet TV Test 2 is more convenient to use. It provides an interface that focuses more on content than on directories, and looks more like WMC's other media menus, while also providing higher resolution video.

But remember, the Internet TV is still in the testing phase, is proportional to its performance and the speed of the Internet, where we recommend you use a wireless or Gigabit Ethernet -N.

Open Media Center directory

WMC start time, the system will prompt you to install Internet TV Desktop accessories to access the desktop from the desktop. Click OK to start TV recording and Internet TV by adding a WMC accessory. When you add accessories to your desktop, the desktop displays the most recent TV recordings and Internet TV channels. You can specify the number and type of directories you need to display.

Click the Directory (1), click an item (2), WMC will open, then it will play the selected content immediately. WMC supports Windows 7's JumpList feature, so when you click Windows Media Center in the Start menu, you can choose the most recent TV recording or other recently viewed media.



using RAW image files in WMC, we can not view RAW digital photos in WMC in Vista. Fortunately, more and more photographers are switching to SLR cameras and RAW files, we have to do is

RAW support Windows7 in order to provide appropriate digital encoding for digital cameras and operating systems decoder. In the example given in this article, we installed ArdfryImaging, LLC 64-bit codec for Canon CR2RAW files, because Canon does not currently support 64-bit codecs.
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