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Note that, even if your hardware does not include a TV tuner, the remote control is available and will accomplish nearly all the same actions as one that is designed for a machine that includes a TV tuner. The example is for Windows 7 in an HP computer, however, Microsoft requires all manufacturers to meet similar requirements.
Here is a short summary of what one may accomplish from a distance of up to 8 meters (26 feet away):
--Put the computer into and out of a power-reduced sleep mode.
--Display visual imagery that is synchronized to the sound of your music tracks: Similar to the iTunes Visualizer, this amazing software fills one's monitor or TV with light patterns that dance to the particular music that is being played; the viewer has a choice of various types pf visual imagery; this is very cool to watch when one wishes to relax in a darkened room with one's favorite music, preferably played with either a home theater system or through earphones/headphones (my neighbors prefer the latter!)
--Move the media backward at three speeds
--Move the media backward 7 seconds, or to the beginning of a music track or a DVD chapter
--Enter text and numbers into a Windows Media Center search or text box.
--Activity indicator light. The LED tells you that the remote control is emitting a signal when you press a button
--Zoom in on the picture three times then return to the full-screen aspect ratio. What this means is that, each time you push the button, you zoom in on your still. Once one has zoomed in to the desired size, one then has the ability to scroll up, down and sideways in the image, much the same as one may accomplish with a digital camera but in this case the size of the image is as large as your monitor or TV!
--Play a slide show of all thestills on one's hard disk drives. Using the remote control, one chooses which particular folder on which particular HDDs one wishes Media Center to keep track of (same procedure as for videos and music). After one has finished telling Media Center which folders to include, the software links to them, and here is the VERY cool part:
--Built-in Screen Saver: Whenever one allows Media Center to become idle for a while (the specific time is selectable), the built-in "screen saver" begins to, so to speak, cruise one's HDDS in search of a still that it would like to display. Dozens and dozens of thumbnails will be on display on one's monitor or TV--in black and white--until the software decides (!) which particular still it would like to take a closer look at, at which time it slowly zooms in on that particular image. As the still is transformed into full-screen size, IT ALSO CHANGES FROM B&W INTO FULL COLOR (or whatever colors are in the original image) and then stays on the screen until Media Center seemingly gets bored with it and therefore decides to once again being surveying other stills. This particular feature is TOO COOL.
--Move to the next DVD chapter.
--Move media forward at three speeds
--Move media forward 30 seconds in videos and live TV, one music track, or one DVD chapter.
--Eject a CD or DVD drive. When the media finishes playing, a number of choices will be offered, including one to Eject the media.
--Or, one may select instead Restart the media from the beginning or Resume playback from where one stopped it.
--Note: Those choices exist not only for removable media but also, for example, playing back directly from one's HDD. Personally, I have every slide show and video that I have ever created stored as a HD MPEG2 on an external HDD (USB2.0). As a result, I have the ability to take that 1TB HDD with me and plug it into the USB2.0 port of any Windows computer that has Media Center, anywhere in the world that I wish to show my work to a prospective client.
