PC magazine® guide to Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 : [your complete guide to the nerve center of a fully integrated digital lifestyle

Learn to use your power well 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. The revolution has begun-in your living room! Now PC Magazine gives you control of this new era in entertainment 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

Learn to use your power well

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.

The revolution has begun–in your living room!

Now PC Magazine gives you control of this new era in entertainment

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

Where there used to be a home stereo, DVD player, CD player, VHS recorder, TiVo, and a box full of remote controls, you can now replace them all with just one device: a Windows XP Media Center Edition PC (referred to henceforth as a "Media Center PC"). The Betty Crocker guide to Italian cuisine features more than two hundred authentic recipes for everything from garlic bread to risotto, along with handy glossaries of Italian cheeses, pastas, herbs, and other specialties.