Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center Test

This new Vista Media Center Edition will be including in the versions Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Premium; in Windows Vista Home BASIC we will not have multimedia center. The basic functionalities are those that already have come observing during these last year’s within Media Center, TV, DVD, Photos and in general all the related one to the digital entertainment, which if it has improved remarkably is the experience of user and the menus of navigation which now they are from top to bottom and left to right.


Seeing tale and the DVD: The televising experience has improved slightly, the controls are such of always and the functionalities also, now the use of software is more intuitive, the improvements are practically imperceptible. Music, videos, photos… multimedia! Now he is much more intuitive to add folders from the system to the bookstore and is centralized in a single point. The system detects automatically that type of multimedia we are adding so that later he is available in each one of the menus. The interface does not have great improvements in functionalities, but the usabilidad and the interface have given an important qualitative jump. We can see discs of a much more familiar way, being able to order by author, sort, album… The photography’s have a spectacular system of “slideshow” the quality with which we see the material is excellent.

Media Center Extenders: Perhaps we have proven to connect XboX 360 to our Media Center; this is to extend commonest in all the houses, in previous versions Now it is easier that to never connect extenders to the PC, simply with an assistant, introducing the code that indicates Extender to us, the system will be connected automatically.

In summary: The next version of Windows Media Center bring us many surprises, and of course for many Media Center goes has to be one of them, since it continues being one of the great strangers in the world Windows. With the arrival of the digital home integration between TV and PC increases day to day and MC will help us to have all our bookstore perfectly organized multimedia.