With all your photos
date- and time-corrected and renamed accordingly, they??™ll appear in
chronological order in almost any circumstance.
Media Center Annoyances
If you have the Home Premium or Ultimate edition of Windows Vista, then
you also have the Windows Media Center component, which allows you to
use your PC and some sort of TV tuner card as a DVR(Digital Video
Recorder). Commonly known as a TiVo?„? (just as a novelty flying disc is
commonly known as a Frisbee?„?), a DVRlets you pause, rewind, and record
live television broadcasts.
Of course, you don??™t have to stick with Media Center. If you don??™t like the
program, if it crashes too often, or if you have only the Home Basic, Business,
or Enterprise edition of Vista, you can try any of several alternatives.
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Free DVRsoftware includes GB-PVR( http://www.gbpvr.com) and MediaPortal
(http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net). Commercial products, while not necessarily
better than their free counterparts, include Meedio (http://www.
meedio.com), SnapStream BeyondTV (http://www.snapstream.com), and
SageTV (http://www.sage.tv).
Each product has its advantages and disadvantages. When choosing a media
center application, the most important consideration is an on-screen interface
you like. Aside from that, it should support HD programming and DVD
burning, work with a wide variety of remote controls, accept plug-ins or
extensions that add functionality (such as news readers and weather forecasters),
and not crash.
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