About Media Center

Watch and Record Cable HDTV

My TV My TV offers a simple, but powerful way to easily access to all of your TV watching and personal video recording activities including Live TV, Recorded TV, the Electronic Programming Guide (EPG), Guide Search and the Movie Finder service - all without a monthly service fee. My TV offers a simple way to discover, browse, watch, and record TV programs, even on multiple channels at the same time. Movie Finder Service Movie Finder makes it easy to find the movies you love to watch and record on TV. Browse Top Rated movies, New Releases, movies on now or showing in the next hour. Search by genre, cast, director, and more. You can even read reviews of most movies before (or while) watching them! S1Digital Media Center supports live TV and video recording support for CableCARDs. With the new Ceton CableCard tuner, you can watch and record four different channels at the same time, including premium HDTV channels such as HBO-HD, ESPN-HD, Discovery-HD, etc. You can also get rid of your set top box. Record multiple live TV shows at the same time Media Center supports four cable TV streams from a single "Multistream Card" CableCARD and coax feed. That means you can record/watch up to FOUR channels simultaneously! Never miss your favorite shows - even when they're on different channels at the same time, or the big game goes into overtime. Watch one show while recording another that's on at the same time, record four shows that are on simultaneously or watch one live show on an extender while watching or recording others on the Media Center

Watch Blu-ray and DVD Movies Including 3D Blu-ray

Enjoy the latest Blu-ray and full progressive-scan DVD movies. Skip through tracks and display track titles, and enjoy the clarity offered by progressive-scan playback and up to lossless 7.1 channel surround sound. Blu-ray and DVDs played back on S1Digital Media Centers have fantastic picture quality when viewed on HDTV televisions - the Media Center will also up-convert DVDs if you're using a HDTV.

Using the My Movies application, you can playback movies from your hard drive, just like a DVD jukebox, but without having to insert the DVD you want to watch every time. (You must own the DVD and it must not be copy protected - S1Digital does not support the circumventing of any DVD copy protection).

S1Digital Proline Series now support 3D Blu-ray playback via HDMI. Watch 3D movies with any 3D compatible display.

Music

My Music offers simple access to your entire personal and online music collection. Now it's easier than ever to play a music CD, copy it into your library, create a playlist on the fly, or edit album details such as your personal ratings. Your music can be browsed by album cover or alternatively by artist, songs, genres, or you can search for any music. When you place a CD into the Media Center, it will automatically download cover art and track and artist information. Also included is built-in support for Audio CD burning directly from the Media Center.

If connected to a surround receiver, music is played back in high definition, multi channel surround sound. The S1Digital Media Center can encode, in real-time, audio into 7.1 channel surround sound (or your receiver can do it).

Pictures

My Pictures makes it easy to view your photo collections on the big screen. Makes slide shows fun and interesting again. Sort by folder, date or title. Import photos from digital cameras or memory cards without hassle and instantly view as a slideshow, complete with music soundtrack and smooth zoom effects.

Enhanced photo editing technology makes it easy to rotate, crop, and fix color on photos. Then print directly from Media Center or share photos online.

A fun new way to instantly enjoy and share your digital photos. Use the remote control to view your pictures and graphics, play an instant slide show, touch up photos, and burn photos to CD or DVD slideshows.

Videos

My Videos organizes your videos and ripped DVDs by date or name and displays a thumbnail image for each clip. My Movies supports common video types including standard .AVIs, .MPG, and .WMV files as well as any additional formats supported by Windows Media Player 10. DVDs that are not copy protected can be played back from the hard disc. Keep your entire DVD collection on your Media Center.

Organize and enjoy home movies, downloaded videos from online services, and more in a single place. Then burn your home movies to DVD for viewing on stand alone DVD players.

S1Digital Media Center also includes Windows Movie Maker, enabling you to easily edit your home movies.

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