Windows Media Center: PC Sellers

When it comes to digital entertainment, Windows Media Center users want it all, in every room—and they bring home higher end PCs and peripherals to get it. OEMs and ODMs—companies that design and manufacture PCs—can reap big rewards from a relationship with Windows Media Center.

Media Center is the best way to enjoy digital media on a PC

• Windows Media Center provides a compelling set of features that appeal to consumers' evolving digital lifestyle.

• OEMs should promote the Windows Media Center functionality in Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate to provide the entertainment capabilities that consumers want.

The PC should be the center of the digital home—and your digital home strategy

• A PC running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate is the ideal foundation on which to build a digital home system.

• The Windows Media Center ecosystem is expanding, with more devices that can utilize its functionality on the PC coming soon.

Media centric PCs provide a great opportunity for sales and revenue growth

• Consumers need high-end desktop systems to manage all their digital media and stream it throughout the home.

• Differentiated product offerings that address consumers' digital lifestyle are important in today's competitive PC market.

Contact your local Microsoft account representative to learn how to:

• Design PCs as entertainment devices.

• Include a TV tuner and remote control and promote PCs as high-end DVRs.

• Bundle additional equipment such as Extenders for Windows Media Center and wireless routers for a complete digital home solution.