10 Really Cool Windows 7 Media Center Features

A few Clarence Shepard Day Jr. back , I showed youthe new touch interface for Media Center PCs running Windows 7 , and though I had to pull the video recording , I promised a walkthrough of proposed Windows 7 Media Center features . I say “ proposed ” because , like everything else about Windows 7 , this is all alpha and subject to change . But these feature film are very nerveless , and really should be included . One more thing : These screens were fancy on a wall in a well - illuminate room , so they bet horrible , but anyone conversant with Media Center ( and Microsoft has shipped like 100 million of them , so that should be plenty of ya ) will have a dependable musical theme of the pleasantness to come . Or you could just drink in the next prose descriptions :

• appearance appear dissolve behind menus – When you ’re watching something and want to pull up a menu to add together a young show or surf the distribution channel guide , or even go into another area of the Media Center , the current show stays on , not as a characterization - in - depiction , but tastefully dissolve into the background signal . • Chronological turbo gyre for canal guide – When you ’re look at the line pathfinder , but want to go from Tuesday to Sunday in a rushing , you just hold down the pointer release on the remote , and the daylight start to whip by . Listings become a fuzz , but the day of the week , and the part of the day , appear float over the listings to give you an idea of when to stop . • unrecorded thumbnail forward and rewind – During HD television playback , you might want to jump around . take hold of the sentence mark and scuff it ahead or back , and as you do , you see a miniature reading of the show performing backwards or forwards at the same speed . • Launch tv set from Start menu – Media Center can occupy a rod position in the Start menu , and when you hover over the MC logotype , a list of latterly recorded shows pop up , along with other frequently used MC feature film . • float Media Center gadget – Not only can you get at shows from the Start menu , you may browse MC features from the background with the gadget . I am not cleared whether or not you ’ll get to have existent TV acting in it , but for people who want MC at their fingertips , this looks like a nice , subtle execution . • Alphabetical turbo coil for music – The chronological turbo scroll on the channel guidebook is nerveless , but this one will come in more ready to hand for me : As you scroll through the countless creative person in your music collection , the names become a fuzz but your localization in the first rudiment is denote by two letters , believably so that those longer letters like J , M , R and S can be broken up better . • range natural covering art grid – When you ’re play a song , the record album art for that track appears with some basic metadata , and all the masking graphics for every other track you own materializes and impetus in the background . The principal covering prowess jumps from side to side and top to bottom , so that everything is in unceasing , fluid motion . • scatter photos moving-picture show show – As you ’re playing music , you may opt for a photo show that essentially reaches into a pamphlet , grabs a handful of shots , scatters them evenly around the page , and then zooms in on one at a time . A nice touch : In the wide slant , all the photos look like desaturated black - and - white , but as each guessing get its own screen time , it magically becomes full gloss . • simulate remote content – If you are crop multiple library or Media Center personal computer and come across a show you like , you’re able to watch it or save it for later by hitting “ make a copy . ” As long as there ’s no programme flagstone or some other DRM , the vid will hang over to your local HDD so you may see it when you ’ve exit the internet . • Virtual duct without TV receiving set – One of the new Media Center ’s central concerns is the Modern popularity of internet - based video , not just YouTube clips but whole goggle box episode like those demonstrate on Hulu . DVR functionality is key to stimulate the most of an MC , but at launch there will be loads of practical channels with shows you could look out just as easily . Microsoft demoed a special MSNBC channel that had clip and full shows ; it ’s of course executable for them to build similar channels for third - party World Wide Web video services too . [ Windows 7 on Giz ]

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