As much as this book is about how to buy and use a Media Center PC, down deep it is…about how owning one changes the way you watch TV and manage your entertain-ment content. Like all good revolutions, this one empowers you.
One device. One remote. If that isn’t a revolutionary approach to entertainment, what is? Now a former PC Magazine contributing editor and digital lifestyle pioneer shows you how to activate all your MCE’s power. You’ll never again worry about missing the end of a TV show, finding that special photo, or having the perfect soundtrack ready to go. You can even say good-bye to your stereo, DVD player, and TiVo — your MCE PC replaces them all!
You’ll be empowered to
- Select and set up a Media Center Edition PC
- Decide whether to use it for general computing
- Record and pause live TV
- Edit, store, and share digital photos and videos
- Control all your media with one remote
- Connect and use both a TV and standard monitor–at once
- Build your home network around your MCE
- Transfer content to DVD
- Put Media Center on any TV in your home with a Media Center Extender
About the AuthorTerry Ulick has extensive experience chronicling the revolutions in PCs and producing television programming. He has written extensively on PC use since the late 1970s and was a columnist for PC Magazine in its earliest days. He went on to publish the first magazine on desktop publishing, Personal Publishing, in the mid 1980s and to write three of the first books on desktop publishing.
In 1995 he co-founded the first online digital photo service for America Online, PicturePlace, an AOL Greenhouse Venture.
From there, he worked as Executive Director of Business Development for Tribune Media Services, where he was responsible for TV listings and movies show time content development. The products he developed put TV information into Microsoft products such as MSN TV, WebTV, UltimateTV, and Media Center. Currently, he is the President and Co-Founder of Good Time Networks, one of the first generation of broadband-based networks to power Media Center Edition PCs with shows such as Good Time Wine and Camp US that can be viewed directly from the Internet.
The combination of his editorial experience and his inside knowledge of the planning and delivery of entertainment-based content to PC/TV devices makes him uniquely qualified to write this book.
