Watch TV and Movies Anywhere
No matter where you are—in your living room, around your house, or anywhere around the world—you still want to watch TV and movies that you and your family find entertaining. When you're using a PC with Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Media Center—along with compatible products—makes it easy to watch what you want, anywhere you want.
You can transfer content from your PC to portable media devices, rent or purchase content over the Internet, share content throughout your home, and back it up for future viewing.
Watch content in any room in the house
When you're at home, you can use your high-speed home network to stream all of the recorded TV and movies, music, and digital photos on your computer to an Xbox 360 or other Windows Media Center Extender devices throughout your house.
You can stream recorded TV and movies, music, and digital photos on your computer to an Xbox 360 or other Windows Media Center Extender device.
Watch movies wherever you are
Using Windows Vista, you also can stream or download movies and TV shows from a growing list of content providers through Online Media—an innovative portal that helps you find and enjoy TV and movies over the Internet. You can get TV and movies on a desktop, laptop, or the new lightweight and compact Ultra-Mobile PC. With this feature, you can watch TV and movies wherever you have a high-speed Internet connection, even if you don't have a TV tuner installed in or connected to your PC.
Online Media helps you find and enjoy TV and movies over the Internet.
Take your TV and movies with you
You don't even have to use your computer to watch your recorded content. You can download content from your computer to a variety of devices. For example, you can use a Windows Mobile device or Portable Media Center to play recorded TV shows or movies. Just copy your recorded TV show or movie from your PC running Windows Vista to a compatible portable media device, or use software from partners to automate the process for you. Many portable devices have a TV output connection, so you can play your portable content on a larger TV screen.
Keep more of your entertainment
With Windows Vista, you can record live television shows and movies on your PC's hard drive. To help ensure that you don't run out of hard drive space, you can back up your favorite shows to a local USB external hard drive or to a storage device attached to your network. To make it easier to archive and share, you can burn your favorite shows directly to a DVD that can be played on a standard DVD player.1
Windows Vista and TV and movies
Windows Vista—and the content, service, and hardware partners who offer products that take advantage of the operating system's features—makes it easier than ever to enjoy watching TV and movies. It simplifies watching, pausing, and recording live TV. In countries where the Electronic Program Guide is available, you have tremendous flexibility in finding and recording content. And once you have recorded content on your PC (or if you have Internet access), Windows Vista puts you in control of your TV and movies wherever you are, whenever you want them.
