If you are using Windows Media Center to record television shows, you have probably already developed the habit of deleting every episode that you watched immediately. Although this is probably the best book keeping strategy possible, sometimes you might accidentally delete the beginning of another show that was located at […]
Once you converted your recordings into a movie library, you can use Windows Media Center or the movie library web application to browse your archived recordings conveniently. However, the XML-based approach to metadata management taken by Windows Media Center is not compatible with most other media players. Besides from portable […]
After you have converted your recordings into a movie library, you are able to browse and watch movies conveniently using Windows Media Center or an extender such as the Xbox 360. Sometimes, however, you might want to access your library from your notebook or some other machine instead. Although, there […]
Some time after you have started to archive your recordings and you have converted them into a movie library, you will notice that the performance slowly degrades. Specifically, when you switch the view from ordering by title to genre, year or rating, you are likely to experience a significant delay. […]
Once you start archiving recorded television from your Windows Media Center, it will not take long until you realize that having them all placed into the video folder is suboptimal. Of course, you can open a browser and search IMBD to figure out what a movie is all about, but […]
If you are not afraid of having a computer control your television, Microsoft’s Windows Media Center application provides one of the sleekest, most intuitive user interfaces to consume broadcast streams live and on-demand. Yet, even having computer as digital video recorder with access to 30+ cable channels, does not guarantee […]
