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Media Center : All solutions for your television

What is a Media Center? This is the easiest solution to be able to fully appreciate all of your computers multimedia resources on your television and HiFi system. This is without a doubt the best way of watching your videos, listen to your MP3's, Internet radios and access resources on your home network (DVD, shared files, RSS streams...). All of this can be done with a remote control while being comfortably seated in your living room!

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Media Center : All solutions for your television

October 01st, 2009 - 07:37 am ET by
  1. 1 - Introduction: The MultiMedia Center!
  2. 2 - Connecting your Media Center to the TV (part 1)
  3. 3 - Connecting your Media Center to the TV (part 2)
  4. 4 - Media Portal (video, audio, photo, DVD configuration)
  5. 5 - Media Portal (remote control configuration, radio, TV card and plugins)
  6. 6 - Windows Media Center: Microsoft’s multimedia offering!
  7. 7 - Media Center and Internet box
  8. 8 - Conclusion

Connecting to digital video

From the video card to an LCD/Plasma TV:
Recent video cards will have one, or possibly even two digital outputs: a DVI and/or a HDMI connector. From memory, these connectors allow you to connect a PC to a monitor or LCD/Plasma TV screen. The digital video signal is of a far superior quality then the analogue one, with there being no signal loss, analogue/digital conversion or picture resizing for the picture to be displayed on your television. This is therefore the ideal connection type and the one that is recommended.

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DVI to HDMI :

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HDMI to HDMI :

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Like with a CRT screen, you simply need to activate the TV output option on your video card. Next, change the channel on the TV to the one that corresponds to the input method. With a flat screen, you won’t need to restart your PC for the changes to take effect.


Audio connection
For an analogue audio connection, you will need to connect the PC’s sound card to the televisions audio inputs (RCA or SCART). The easiest thing to do is connect the headphone jack or speakers output directly to the televisions audio input ports. For a digital connection, you will easily be able to use the HDMI cable which carries both the audio and video signals as well as a home cinema amplifier.

From the sound card to the television:

1) Headphone/Speaker jack to the televisions RCA connectors:

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2) Headphone/speaker jack to the Scart:

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