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What is Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002?


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Recommended Links

How to obtain support for Media Center
Windows Media Center Newsgroups www.xpmce.com
www.thegreenbutton.com

In a Nutshell:

Windows XP Media Center 2002 is a superset edition of Windows XP Professional containing additional capabilities for Home Entertainment which are not present or not possible to achieve easily out of the box on other editions of Windows.

These features enable the ability to view digital media on your machine (all pictures, video's and music) via a graphically driven user interface. The special part is you are able to do this using a remote control device. Windows Media Center also features the ability to record and pause live TV on demand, and allows you to automatically record an entire series of a program with 2 button presses.

The recorded TV shows are recorded in a format called dvr-ms which is very similar to the asf file format, the recorded shows are made up of MPEG2 streams and meta information to store details about the program. Using the correct software such as Sonic's MyDVD product it is possible to record these shows into DVD's which can be used in most set-top DVD players. Windows Media Center is an OEM product which means it can only be acquired with a new Media Center PC or for development use as part of an MSDN subscription. At this point you cannot upgrade current machines to be Media Center machines (legally).

If you want to read some more in depth information about the 2004 Edition of Media Center Click Here

Common Media Center Issues

Before contacting support you should check the Windows Media Center FAQ, most common issues are contained here

If your having issues installing Media Center or Tablet PC Edition from MSDN ISO CD Images because setup prompts for 'Service Pack 1 CD', try writing the CD1 image again with Alex Feinman's ISO recorder. The Service Pack 1 CD message appears to happen most frequently on the newsgroups with people burning CD1 in an older version of a certain CD Writer package which can cause minor corruption to the disc.

NB: Media Center 2002 is available only in North America, Canada and Korea .

If your interested in Media Center, you should stop by www.thegreenbutton.com, this site has some great content including links to a 'Simple DVR editing and DVR-MPEG/MPEG-DVR conversion utility.'
 
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