Media Center

Hey folks Currently: I have a windows 7 media center in my living room, attached to the TV (hdmi) and stereo (digital audio out) Now I want to expand this throughout my house, I have the keyboard/mouse situation handled I'm thinking a HDMI splitter is the way to go, turning on/off tv's...

Hello everyone, I brought new gaming PC last week and I want to use is also as media center. The computer is close to my TV so I want to connect the PC also to the TV with HDMI cable. Now the question is that I need some kind of remote for it. I want to only use it for movies (probably with...

Hey everyone, I'm looking at building a mini itx home media center which can be used to view and record films,photos, music and moderate gaming at high medium to high graphics, furthermore it would be extremely helpful if its' processing power could be used by multiple user in different rooms at...

I want to add media streaming capabilities to my home network. Unfortunately, I am unaware of how I should go about it, especially with so many options available. -This device will only be used to stream media (Movies - Blu-ray rips,Music, and Photos). -I want it to be able to stream to at...

Hello Guys, I have WinTV-HVR-1850 which has 2 coaxial input in the back, i wanted to recod tv shows from my Paid Programming "Cable TV" from COX Communications. See i am running into few problems and wanted to see what are my best options. My HTPC With Win 7 64bit OS and Windows Media Center...

This summer I want to build a home server with all my TV shows and films stored on it in one central location in my room but I want to be able to access all these shows over my house i.e. Living room, Bedroom etc. Can anyone recommend any devices I can use to connect the server wirelessly to my...

Hi. I have a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 TV tuner card. Recently I've been using Windows Media Center to record shows, but it just doesn't work very well. (Lots of corrupted recordings or 'no signal' errors when the signal is great.) Can anybody recommend a good PVR program? I used NextPVR a long...

So I just recently built my dad a media pc for the living room and I have everything set up except for the digital cable. Is there any way to hook that up to my pc and still get all the channels and everything my dad pays for you know the HD channels and all that and not just basic cable. I know...

Hi Running the xbox 360 windows media center at 1080i is causing the screen to jitter, when I swap to 720p the screen jitter disappears however I dont really want to drop from 1080i to 720p when playing games and having to change the system settings every time I want to swap seems a bit ott...

When I bought my laptop, it came with a remote for media center. the remote was working with the pre-installed OS, but after I upgraded to windows 7, the remote has not been able to control media center at all. I tried replacing the the battery, but the remote was still unresponsive. My Laptop...

Question: Would it make sense to have dual booting capabilities. For example, I have Win 7 Ultimate and enjoy playing Skyrim, watching movies on XFinity and Netflix. I have the Media Center and no issues. Believe I would have to purchase the Media Center if I upgraded to Win 8 Pro???I like...

Hi there, I currently have a HTPC that I watch my shows from but I want to reduce the footprint around my media center. Is it possible to stream video and audio content directly to my TV from my PC server (planning to build one and leave it in the office for this purpose). And it is possible...

Hi, this has happened 2-3 times before, i have a vizio tv with an onkyo receiver utilizing hdmi on windows media center windows 7. I accidently hit something on my windows media center remote and lost sound. I tried to restore windows from a previous date, no mutes are on. Its so frustrating...

Wondering what is best to play MKV files for a media center? Can you play them through windows media center also?

I use XBMC to watch my local files on my media center machine (listed in my signature) and I have Plex installed to broadcast outside of my network. I use Plex at work and other places to listen to music mostly. I'm going to be moving back to school soon, and i'm taking my media center with me...

Hello, WHATEVER KEY I PUSH IT TAKES ME TO THE MEDIA CENTER, SOMETIMES IT GOES THERE BY ITSELF AND THEN I CANNOT EXIT OUT OF THERE. MY LAPTOP ALSO WILL NOT LET ME MAKE A FULL BACKUP OR SYSTEM REPAIR DISK

The road to home theater heaven is paved with dead products. Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) 2005, tried to let desktop-style PCs deliver the entertainment people wanted on their big TVs while still preserving the PC’s functionality. Early adopt geeks Smart TV: From Yesterday to Tomorrow ...

looking at a laptop to double as a HD and to play blurays through media center to a 1080p TV will something like this have enough kick? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MSI-CR630-AMD-ATHLON-Dual-Core-BLU-RAY-15-6-4GB-320GB-Win7-Laptop-/280800674328?pt=UK_Computing_Laptops_EH&hash=item4161064218

don't find media or don't play dvd's

I have an new build and wil be loading software this week. I have PowerDVD 11 right now. Any other that the community could recommend. Also windows media center