How to watch HD video free in Windows Media Center

On this day, Microsoft has quietly released the "Internet TV" service that has already been offered to foreign users to the Windows 7 system in China. Users can finally watch video from content provider networks directly in Windows Media Center.

In order to give you the quickest understanding of this pair of Chinese users new features, first briefly introduce the interface and installation methods, the next chapter details the story behind this feature. Similar to the online store feature in Windows media Player, the "Internet TV" service in the media is the Media Center update software that is updated with Microsoft updates and is not built into Windows. Also, this feature is available only to Windows 7, and is not supported by Vista systems.

If we have already run Windows Media Center (Windows 7 "Easy Edition" and "Home normal edition" without this feature), then the software will regularly surf the internet to find updates, and perhaps now you can run Windows Media Center from the Start menu in the TV New features are found under the category.

If you haven't seen the new options under the TV category, you can update them manually online. In the media, browse to the task category, select Settings, then go to the General "Automatic Download Options", click "Download Now" and the program will automatically check for updates in the background. If there is no problem with the locale and network connectivity of your system, you will see changes under the TV category in a few minutes!

In order to be closer to China's national conditions, "Internet TV" is translated as "Internet video", in addition to a more "search" option:

After clicking, go to a profile page, because the Media Center program Automatic Updates is only added a portal, so this also requires the installation of "Internet video" components to use. Because of the emphasis on the "free" feature, users are still willing to accept.

Look at the terms of service, updated in March 2010:

The installation process is very simple, do not need to leave the Media Center interface, 10 seconds or so can be completed. After the installation is complete, you can go directly to the home page. Compared to foreign counterparts, we see the home page is relatively simple, only provided three large icons to choose from, the upper right corner can enter the search interface to search the video resources themselves. From the Media Center interface design, "click into" These few small print should not appear. From this homepage, we can learn that this service is the result of cooperation between Microsoft and Sina Video, Sohu Video and China international radio three content providers. According to various sources, this cooperation project has been proposed two or three years ago, until now launched, in addition to catching up with the Windows 7 listed this fire, the implementation of the difficult outsiders should be difficult to understand.

We choose from three content providers to enter, where cri.cn because of the WMV video format, so direct access, but Sina video and Sohu video is currently popular on the network Flash video format, so you must install a plugin to enter:

Fortunately, this plug-in installation speed is also very fast, the network unblocked words stretching on OK:

Finally entered the front of a bright content selection interface. People who are familiar with the Media Center can use it directly, because this interface completely adopts the Media Center interface design layout and the operation way, above is the first class and the two class switch, the center uses the color big picture the form to list the choice movie, the picture below also has the detailed introduction of this resource, The lower-left corner is the media content that the Media Center program is currently playing. Unfortunately, the "HD" category is not really a real HD video, specifically how to "high", you see the real. Such a design allows users to only use the remote control around and confirm keys, you can easily select the content to browse, to avoid the mouse and keyboard operation trouble:

After the movie is selected, you can view the more detailed film introduction, so that you decide whether you are interested to watch, click OK to start playing:

This is the final Full-screen movie screen (the four-week control button will automatically disappear), although not high-definition quality, but also the same as the DVD quality, not to mention these are all free, it is not a good enjoyment?

If you have to ask, how can I find something that I want to see? Very simple, in the Media Center of the main interface of the "TV" category under the "Search" function, you can use the Media Center built-in remote control input method, enter the desired movie name to search. Even "sharp elder brother" and "Phoenix Elder sister" can be found smoothly, the film source is very rich AH:

In addition, go into the "TV" category under the "Guide", you can see the original TV listings should be shown in the Guide function now contains the content provider recommended video content, select a video will automatically jump to the video in the corresponding category in the "Internet video":

Introduced so much, I hope that you can change the habit of watching network TV, the use of Media Center for you to provide a large amount of resources to eliminate the ads and Web page spam interference, a more comfortable way of life may be here!