Windows7 can also watch Internet TV

How many people are currently using WINDOWS7? According to the latest news, Microsoft has successfully sold 400 million copies of the original operating system, coupled with the market circulated to the WIN7 flagship version of the pirated Win7 system download, the number of Win7 activation may be more than 1 billion ...

"I want to watch TV ..."

A shout hoarse cry broke the living room of silence, alas ~ again no signal!

Since the new digital set-top box has been replaced, the Fat Tiger's TV often has no signal. To say that the digital set-top box is good everywhere, the channel and many pictures and clear, but is often disconnected people feel depressed. Of course, this often breaks the signal also many of the same advantage, that is to let the fat Tiger's body slim a lot. Originally this fat tiger every time will be big face sister Catch a man, often be tugging ears as "volunteer repairman". Alas ~ who says the woman is inferior to the male, this pulls the ear the strength is really not the average man can compare. Of course, the "repair" here is not to move a ladder to check the line outside, but through the home computer to watch network TV.

To say that today's network TV is no longer fresh, what PPS, PPTV, qqlive, Uusee ..., can put a large table. But the method of the Fat Tiger is more special, neither the third party software, nor the need to trouble the installation of the underground, as long as the open Win7 from the Windows Media Center (Media Centre) can watch the flow of the program. So how did he do it? Let's take a look at it now!

First enter the Media Center main interface, select the "TV" menu → "internet video" option.

Figure 1 Finding "internet video"

Media Center then prompts you to install an "Internet video plugin," and there are no other issues, check the protocol to choose "Install".

Figure 2 Installing the Internet video Plugin

The next step is a "long" installation, but don't worry, it's only 4MB.

Figure 3 in the plugin download

Plug-in installed will automatically enter the network TV interface, and the general Third-party software is different, the program here is all in the form of "picture block" pop-up, the top is composed of several groups of different categories of program list, that is, we love the news, tourism, there are gay men love the exploration, adventure, the mouse hover can show the program introduced. Of course, as with other Media Center features, you can also use the keyboard cursor keys to select different programs, typical Media center style.

Figure 4 Program selector It's cool.

Article so far, the rest of the operation is needless to say, want to see which program directly click. After a few seconds, the program buffer is complete, then the smooth video screen will be displayed in front of us.

Fig. 5 The quality of the picture is still good.

So far our story will come to an end, but the fat Tiger and big face sister of the war has not subsided, the original Media Center and no big face sister love to watch the Korean dramas, then this smart fat tiger will think of what brilliant idea? and listen to Let's!

"Editor's note" In fact, in addition to viewing directly in Media Center, it also provides us with a desktop gadget. Open is dynamically displayed program prompts, automatically replace a screen every once in a while, of course, this can not be a simple content display, click can be directly called Media Center to perform playback, it is understood as an electronic TV newspaper is not too.

Figure 6 The desktop gadget for Media Center