Media Center Settings

Changing Media Center Settings

In the Media Center Settings window, you can change settings for watching television, for viewing your pictures and slide shows, and for controlling sound and the display of all the Media Center windows. Listed below is a summary of which settings are listed under each category.

Setting

What you can change

Category

General

Adjust the appearance of Media Center window, select a background shade,

 

 

and adjust Media Center for use on your PC monitor or TV.

Media Center sounds, taskbar notifications and enable caller ID feature.

Set parental controls to block unwanted TV channels or movie ratings.

Set up an Internet connection or your remote control to work with Media Center.

TV

Set up TV signal, audio, closed captioning.

 

 

Get television program guide or edit guide.

 

View TV recording errors, set hard disk drive storage space, set recording defaults.

Music

Select visualizations to display when playing a song.

 

 

Show song information during visualizations.

Radio

Organize or delete preset radio stations.

 

DVD

Select language for subtitles, audio tracks, and menus.

 

 

Select audio settings for your speakers.

 

Program remote buttons for DVD.

Pictures

Select to show pictures in random order, in subfolders, and show captions.

 

Show song information during a slide show. Select transition type and time for slide show. Select background shade for slide show.

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Parental control and caption display settings for TV and DVDs are included with select models only.

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