Steve Kovsky’s

Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Windows XP Media Center  is your key to enjoying the home of the future—today! Here’s a small sample of what you’ll find inside:

• Watch, pause, rewind, and record live television with push-button ease!

• Save your favorite TV shows and movies to your hard drive, then burn them onto DVDs that you can play anywhere.

• Shoot and edit your own home , then burn them onto DVDs that you can share with friends and family.

• Enjoy your favorite TV shows, DVD movies, music, and more—on your computer screen or your television.

• Rip, organize, and burn your favorite music tracks to audio CDs .

• Capture, edit, and sort your own digital photos using XP Media Center’s user friendly tools, then display them on your TV.

• Listen to FM Radio on your Media Center PC. You’ll learn how to pause, rewind and fast forward live radio!

• Use your Media Center remote control to tap into all sorts of exciting online services.

            

High-Tech Toys for Your TV

Secrets of TiVo, Xbox, UltimateTV, ReplayTV and More

 

The ultimate guide to choosing, installing, configuring, customizing, hacking -- and above all -- understanding your Intelligent Entertainment Devices.

 

Make your TiVo, UltimateTV, Xbox, or GameCube do your bidding. We show you how to use these PCs in sheep’s clothing to be king of your domain (or at least the area immediately surrounding your recliner). Like the plot from a circa 1950s sci-fi film, computerized look-alikes have surreptitiously replaced our VCRs, our video game consoles...even our televisions and stereos. While the advantages that these digital entertainment devices offer over their analog predecessors are immense, so is the potential for sensory and information overload.

 

 

Books by Steve Kovsky