If you like watching sports, you'll love Windows Media Center SportsLounge.1 Included in Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate, this rich portal takes your sports television viewing experience to a whole new interactive level. A partnership with FOXSports.com, SportsLounge is the place to catch your favorite games, players, teams, and fantasy sports leagues—all from the most comfortable chair in your den. With On Now in SportsLounge, you can watch your favorite game live, while seeing real-time scores on the Live Scoreboard that runs across the top of the screen. The displayed scores are shown for all the additional games on other channels that are available with your current antenna, cable, or satellite TV service. If you want to quickly see what's happening with a different game on another available channel, just select the game from the Live Scoreboard, and Windows Media Center will instantly tune to that channel with instant access—no need to navigate the program guide. 
To keep you informed about games that aren't televised in your area, FOXSports.com provides sporting news updates along the bottom of the screen. If you see a story that you like, select it, and you are connected to FOXSports.com's own online sports portal experience, which includes injury reports, depth charts, photos, and videos. With Scores in SportsLounge, you can see the scores for all the games in the United States or Canada currently being played —including what the last play was, or who scored last. The scores are arranged logically by sport, and FOX Sports constantly updates them, so you'll always know who's on top. You can even catch up on the games that you missed by viewing an entire week's worth of scores from your favorite league. You no longer need to search the entire program guide to find out when the games you care about most are coming on. On Later finds all the games airing over a two-week period that are available from your television service and neatly arranges them according to date and sport. You can record a future game at the press of a button on your remote while viewing the upcoming schedule. Just find the upcoming game you want to watch, press the record button, and Windows Media Center adds it to your scheduled recordings. 
With the Players feature, you can set up Windows Media Center to track your favorite professional athlete. Players displays stats over the course of the season or the stats for a current or recently played game. If you're using the On Now feature and watching one game, and your favorite player makes a huge play or is on deck to bat on another channel, you'll be notified of that event; SportsLounge will give you the option to directly tune to that channel to watch the play. 
SportsLounge is available only in the U.S. and Canada. | 
