Online Spotlight

Online Spotlight is your portal to a wide and growing range of free, premium, and subscription-based products and services. From music and radio programming to movie downloads, on-demand services, and customized sports, news, and entertainment programming, Online Spotlight gives you instant access to the wealth of media available online.* (U.S. only.)
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Online Spotlight gives Media Center PC users an easy way to find third party services and software directly from the main Media Center screen. Now through Online Spotlight, you can find video and music-on-demand services, news, entertainment, and much more—all accessible using the remote control.

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ABC Enhanced TV

On Enhanced TV, you can join Ty Pennington and the design team of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" as they make over America, one home at a time! Extreme interactive fun, Extreme Makeover style, only on Enhanced TV.

ABC Family

ABC Family for Media Center is an extension of the content on ABCFamily.com. The landing page displays links to featured programming and a "What's On Tonight" program guide. The featured programming links connect you to cast bios, show descriptions, photo galleries, and other interactive features. There is also a "Watch Now" button that instantly takes you to ABC Family in a minimized Viewport (similar to a picture-in-picture function), which you can toggle to full-screen and back with the click of a button.

Akimbo

Akimbo combines TV and the Internet to give you easy access to new and fresh shows from the comfort of your couch. Akimbo offers viewers over 125 channels and more than 50 categories of video content, featuring both well-known names and hard-to-find specialty offerings. With Akimbo for Media Center's Online Spotlight, you can easily browse, search, and discover programs that interest you, using just a remote control. With Akimbo, your wish is on demand™.

AOL Music On Demand

AOL Music On Demand features videos from top artists plus original, in-studio AOL Sessions performances; select performances from the Network Live concert series; and today's most popular music videos—all from AOL Music and available at AOL.com.

AOL Pictures

AOL Pictures is a free, online, digital photo experience for your Media Center PC. You can easily upload, edit, search, manage albums or images, and share your favorite pictures online. Also see AOL Pictures online at AOL.com.

AOL Radio

AOL Radio Featuring XM Satellite Radio is the ultimate online radio experience on Media Center PCs and on AOL.com. Get access to 200+ AOL Radio stations and 70+ XM channels. It's commercial-free, unlimited CD-quality sound that's available 24/7 over a high-speed connection.

ArcSoft QuickDVD

Use ArcSoft QuickDVD™ on Media Center's Online Spotlight to make your own DVD movies. Forget about all the complicated procedures typically associated with digital video: if you can use a remote control, you can put your home movies on DVD. It's that simple.

CinemaNow

CinemaNow is the leader in Internet-based video-on-demand. With over 2,000 titles from over 200 licensors including Disney, Fox, Lions Gate, Miramax, MGM, NBC Universal, Sony, and Warner Bros., CinemaNow has become a leading destination for the authorized downloading and streaming of feature films. CinemaNow has designed a customized version of its Web site for Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition platform that allows users to search, browse, download, and play content all with the convenience of a remote control.

Comedy Central

Comedy Central MotherLoad

Comedy Central's MotherLoad for Media Center is a streaming video service designed and optimized to take advantage of broadband speed and the home entertainment experience of Media Center PCs. MotherLoad features exclusive and dedicated content, such as video clips from current and classic Comedy Central shows; sneak previews; behind-the-scenes exclusives; highlights from thousands of stand-up comedy performances; and newly-created, short-form series such as "I Love The Thirties," "Odd Todd," "Meet The Creeps," and much more.

DISCover

DISCover My Games™, designed for Media Center's Online Spotlight, provides instant access to downloadable, streaming, and retail PC games with the ease of your remote and from the comfort of your living room sofa.

You can view an in-depth game guide with screenshots, box art, and descriptions for thousands of top games and purchase "boxed" games from EB Games™. DISCover My Games also includes a parental control feature that can be enabled to limit access to violent or mature games.

Fox Sports

Don't want to miss the FOX Monday night lineup? FOXSports.com's News and Scores on Media Center lets you check the latest sports headlines and up-to-the-second scores from FOXSports.com while you watch your favorite TV shows on FOX TV. The FOXSports.com Photo Gallery serves full-sized images from the current week in sports directly to your Media Center. With FOX Sports, you can stay connected to your sports world 24 hours a day.

GalleryPlayer

GalleryPlayer is a digital home gallery service that delivers high-resolution, museum quality art and imagery to any Media Center PC. GalleryPlayer allows you to view an ever-changing collection of imagery, transforming your display into a dynamic, radiant, digital canvas. GalleryPlayer combines the world's finest images with patent-pending digital rights management and distribution technologies. From sports to travel, from black and white vintage photography to fine art, GalleryPlayer entertains, educates, and moves its audience.

Game xStream

Play on-demand extreme games right now!

Game xStream is a streaming on-demand service for playing high-end, graphic-intensive video games online. Through Game xStream's intelligent streaming, you can start playing games within minutes of pressing the "Buy" button, and no longer have to wait for hours for the full game to be downloaded.

InterActual

The InterActual Player provides access to enhanced computer features included on DVDs by major movie studios. With Media Center's Online Spotlight and the InterActual Player, bonus features like Script Viewers, Interactive Image Galleries, and Trivia Tracks, as well as exclusive online content, are now accessible by remote control from the comfort of your couch.

KMS World Trivia

Fun for your friends and family. Features 5,000 questions.

The fun, captivating, interactive general knowledge quiz for the whole family, World Trivia is easy to play and suitable for all ages. Choose your own question categories—topics include art and literature, entertainment, food and drink, general knowledge, geography, history, pop music, and sport. 5,000 trivia questions are included. Play in a team or on your own, view high scores and player rankings. US/North American and UK/European question sets are available.

Kodak

KODAK brings the joy of sharing to the living room with their first interactive television application. KODAK Share is a television-friendly version of Ofoto specifically designed to work with WINDOWS XP Media Center Edition PCs. KODAK Share makes it easy for Ofoto customers to access and view their digital images, and share those images in their Ofoto accounts, any time from their TV or PC display with the convenience of using a remote control.

Live365

Through the award-winning Live365 Internet radio network and Media Center's Online Spotlight, you can access a wide variety of Internet radio stations—with choices from Alternative to Zydeco. You can browse through station listings and save your favorites as preset stations.

Movielink

Movielink is an online movie download service that lets you download and watch movies without leaving your couch. Pick from new releases, classics, foreign films and more. You can store movies and watch them up to 30 days later, with nothing to return, no late fees and no subscription. Prices start at $1.99 per movie.

MTV Overdrive

Overdrive is MTV.com's new broadband video channel, delivering the hottest video content to Media Center PCs. MTV Overdrive provides in-depth access to live music performances, thousands of music videos, and artist interviews, as well as never-before-seen content from your favorite MTV shows. In addition, extended cuts of MTV news segments, movie trailers, and major MTV events such as the MTV Movie Awards and the VMAs, are all available on demand and at the touch of a remote control button.

mtvU

mtvU is the only 24-hour network dedicated to emerging music and everything you love about college. The channel, which is broadcast to 7 million students at more than 730 campuses, features music videos from emerging artists you can't see anywhere else. It also includes short-form series such as "Stand In"—where global icons such as Madonna, Bill Gates, Marilyn Manson, Tom Wolfe, Sting, and others surprise-teach a class for the day, as well as short films, animation, and more. With mtvU for Media Center, you can program the channel on demand and customize your experience, or just sit back and watch. As Jon Stewart puts it, "mtvU is the college...that's a channel."

MSN Remote Record

MSN introduces Remote Record, a new service that enables Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 users with a broadband connection to remotely schedule TV shows to record from any PC with Web access. MSN Remote Record lets you schedule recordings of single shows or entire series. The service lets you resolve scheduling conflicts and keeps track of all shows on the Scheduled Recordings page. MSN Remote Record requires a quick (554K) download.

MSN TV

MSN TV, a pioneer in the delivery of interactive services to the television, announces a major update to the MSN TV Today service for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005-based PCs. The enhanced service now delivers hundreds of video clips covering news, sports and entertainment that can be played on demand from the comfort of your couch. Content is provided by leading programmers such as NBC, Discovery Channel, Fox Sports, Food Network and Atom Films with dozens of new clips added daily. MSN TV Today is based on the MSN Video service and can be accessed through Online Spotlight.

Napster

Napster for Media Center PC turns your Media Center PC into a next-generation jukebox with the power of a million tracks. Using your PC and remote control, you can search, browse and play Napster's massive music catalog as well as enjoy your own personal music collection. You can also watch music videos or listen to commercial-free radio all without leaving your couch. With Napster for Media Center PC, your living room is connected to the future of music.

NewsGator

NewsGator Media Center Edition displays content you choose from syndicated RSS and Atom feeds on your TV. Audio and video-enhanced feeds are fully supported, delivering video on demand to subscribers. The Media Center Edition NewsGator is designed as a companion to the other NewsGator editions, allowing you more access to your content.

NPR

NPR is an internationally acclaimed producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. Through Media Center, you can listen to current and past editions of NPR's most popular programs, including "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered," and "Fresh Air"—whenever you want.

Reuters Interactive News Network

The Reuters news channel provides continuously updated news stories that can be played on demand in Media Center's Online Spotlight. You can watch packaged business and market news reports from key financial capitals, as well as unique raw footage of breaking world events that offers a different perspective from traditional TV news. You can choose from human interest, entertainment, and fashion stories from around the world.

Roxio MyTV ToGo

Roxio MyTV ToGo is the easiest way to copy your TiVoToGo or Windows Media Center Recorded TV shows to your video iPod, Playstation Portable, Pocket PC, memory card, Smartphone, or laptop without leaving the comfort of your couch. Get the functionality you won't find elsewhere, with remote-enabled conversion that controls exactly how your shows are converted and ensures you get the TV you want to watch—whenever and wherever you want to watch it!

TitanTV

The TitanTV Big Screen is a comprehensive online TV listings guide that highlights digital and high definition TV programming and was designed for use with Media Center. With the TitanTV Big Screen Program Guide and Media Center, you can easily customize and record TV using your Media Center remote.

TVTonic

TVTonic delivers trailers for top movie releases, classic and cutting-edge music videos, AP news, and more. With TVTonic, video downloads in the background and is stored in a managed cache on your hard drive. The result is instant-on DVD-quality video that streaming video can't match. Specifically designed for Media Center, TVTonic makes the broadband video experience as reliable as regular TV.

VH1 VSPOT

VSPOT, VH1's new broadband entertainment network, delivers VH1's best video programming on demand to Media Center PCs. Leading with music programming, VSPOT offers thousands of music videos, artist interviews, live-events coverage, behind-the-scenes access, and exclusive in-studio performances from artists like The White Stripes and INXS. You can also watch VSPOT originals; movie clips and trailers; and VH1 Shows such as "The Surreal Life" and "Hogan Knows Best"—all on demand at VSPOT.

XM Satellite Radio

XM Radio Online delivers XM Satellite Radio's 68 commercial-free music channels as well as other exclusive XM offerings, including "The Bob Edwards Show", the XM Comedy channel, and "High Voltage" featuring Opie and Anthony live on the Internet (subscription fee required). XM Satellite Radio broadcasts live daily from studios in Washington DC and New York City, and from the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee. You can access XM Satellite Radio in Media Center's Online Spotlight.

*To enjoy all the benefits of Online Spotlight, Internet access is required.

The screenshots shown here are for illustration only. Online Media services and applications available through Windows Media Center are subject to change.