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Build The Ultimate Media Center

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Windows Media Center, standard in Vista Home Premium and Ultimate, turns your PC and TV into a home media center.

Windows Media Center, standard in Vista Home Premium and Ultimate, turns your PC and TV into a home media center.  Windows Media Center makes a great jukebox, letting you browse your music collection by album cover.  Install a Blu-ray drive like the Lite-On DH-401S. It's available for around $150, much less than you'd pay for a standalone Blu-ray player.  Windows Media Center's program guide is provided free of charge; you don't have to pay monthly fees like with TiVo.  Most media centers connect to TVs via VGA, DVI, or HDMI cables.  Though small enough to fit in even the most compact cases, the ADS MCE DualTuner provides both analog and digital tuners so you can record two shows at once.  The Alienware Hangar18 media center PC looks like a stereo component, so it should be right at home in your living room.  The Logitech Z Cinema surround-sound speaker system was designed expressly with media center PCs in mind. It also comes with a full-size remote.  A   The programmable, rechargeable Harmony One remote can control your media center, HDTV, stereo receiver, and up to 12 other devices.  The ultra-compact diNovo Mini keyboard/touchpad lets you access your media center PC from the couch.  Windows Media Center plug-in mceWeather lets you check the forecast without getting off the couch. 


Windows Media Center, standard in Vista Home Premium and Ultimate, turns your PC and TV into a home media center.