Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004
The best and completest parts of this multimediabesturingssystem have relation on photographs and music. Newly in Media Center Edition 2004 (MCE 2004) is the addition of a radio player (FM and via the internet) and the possibility rent movie to download. The last service has been activated currently not yet, and comes moreover only available in the United States.
The most changes in MCE 2004 have relation on the Tv and PVR-parts (Personal Video Recorder). According to Microsoft, this version a better Tv-quality furnishes. That is then an important improvement, for the soft-focus image quality from the first version was not really about to house to write.
We are there not yet totally from or the quality indeed better became; the waiting is on the first MCE 2004-pc”s for a deliberate judgments. For this test steered Microsoft us a system in a so-called” white boxso that we really a first look could throw on this new operating system. We noticed already fast that the videocardkeuze an important influence has on the image quality.
If we the MCE 2004-system reboot, come we in the right place in the “10-foot” interface - with which have been indicated that the letter types large enough be they on a distance can see, and that you positions aim for on the base of a remote control. You cannot use is also a keyboard - the most MCE-systems be furnished with a thread lynx catch mice and keyboard - only that in many cases necessarily. Only for the surfing on the web from your lazy chair or the removing of occasionele application-errormessages (it remains a Windows-operating system), that set of pace comes.
In the Start Menu, you have the choice from Play DVD, My Video, My Pictures, My TV (live Tv and PVR), My Music, Radio (on some systems), More Programs (for third-party applications), Settings and the two last selected items from More Programs. The option Online Spotlight is not yet asset, but the manufacturer has promised that this feature linked becomes at a Microsoft-site which you in the right place can for news, weather reports, promos, online music and moviedownloads.
If you on the My TV-button press, get you an effort to see that the channel shows where you to looking was, plus buttons for the selecting of the Tv-guide, a missing button for programs, a button your Tv-institutions at to fit and a list with the last three programs that you have taken up. If a Tv-apparatus is your primary or only display, you can select also a background with high contrast. A welcome change, since some users complained about the legibility of the standard blue text on the blue screen in the first edition of the MCE-interface.
Its the Tv-guide and videorecorder also a to pieces” more cleverly” become. You can now self a guide put together for hundred stations that you manage through for instance to filter onsport”,” movies” or” childerprogrammas”. A list of separate episodes of the same program is on the same manner insingle list to pour, through which you need considerably less to scrollen.