Star Technology Services is now offering full-featured PC-based
entertainment media centers with Windows XP Media Center Edition
2005... including home setup! Read on for details.
Contact us today for a personalized quote.
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Windows XP Media
Center Edition offers the best
Windows experience in any room
in your home, whether youre
looking for a family computer or
to enhance your home theater.
Enjoy integrated home
entertainment experiences
including photos, music, TV, and
more. Connect with devices
around the home and on the go
that extend your entertainment.
This will not necessarily replace a person's regular
computer, but it WILL replace their entertainment center, though
it obviously could replace their computer if they wanted it to.
An option would be to interface the media center to the
home computer via a wired or wireless network for centralized
storage of media & video files.
What's in it?
These units, while they do have the full power of Windows XP,
are dedicated to entertainment.
Here are the pluses:
First, the flat
panel TV... Our standard is a 32" LCD HDTV Monitor.
This can be upgraded to plasma or larger LCD if you wish,
but this is strictly personal preference.
You likely already
have TVs and stereos, and also possibly digital cameras and
MP3 players. You can enjoy all of your digital entertainment
— music, photos, gaming, movies and even TV — in one
place. We can evolve a disconnected collection of
devices into a digital home entertainment experience,
anchored by a PC.
In this PC, you would have an
HDTV tuner as well as a standard TV tuner, so you can watch
one thing while recording another. A large hard drive
(160GB to 500GB) for storing all of your music & recorded
video, a Designed for Windows XP Media Center
certified
video card, remote control, wireless keyboard/mouse, and
more!
With Media Center extenders, you
can control your media center from any TV in your home!
You will be able to watch as many channels as you have TV
tuner cards in the main unit. If you have two cards in
the Media Center, you can watch different channels on two
different TV's! You can also watch TV on one, and
listen to music on another, etc.
What Can You Do with Digital Home?
The most basic solution for the
digital home will enable a your family to download, organize, and
view their digital photographs or listen to music on their PC. A
more sophisticated digital home solution will allow them to
enjoy photos, music, and videos stored in their PC through their
televisions and stereos anywhere in the house! You could even record, pause, and resume
'live' TV from their PC, complete with a remote control!
Since it is a full-functional Windows
XP PC as well, with a wireless keyboard & mouse, you can check
email, surf the internet, and even write a letter in Microsoft
Word from the comfort of your easy chair or sofa!
Get this... checking on
some of your favorite websites on your TV screen, while
simultaneously watching your favorite program or a DVD in a
window or listening to your favorite CDs or MP3s.
Possibilities are endless.
Summary of Features
Music
Organize and store an entire
music collection on a PC and
wirelessly send custom play
lists to the home stereo.
Download songs from an
Internet subscription service to
create personal play lists and
enjoy tunes on a PC. Burn
compilation CDs to play on the
living room stereo. Listen to
CDs on the PC.
