Microsoft QLF-00195 manual Media Streaming, Play To

Stream media to other devices

on your home network.

Windows 7 for You: Makes New Things Possible

Media the Way You Want It

Media Streaming

As you acquire more PCs and devices, you’ll have more physical places to store your music, photos, and video. But what if all your music is on a laptop, yet you want to play it on your main PC with the great speakers? Now, with Media Streaming, you can.

When you join a homegroup or set up media streaming from within Windows Media Player, the music, pictures, and videos you want to access will be

immediately available on other PCs and devices that are part of your homegroup, and, if you choose, can even be shared with PCs that are not part of your homegroup. The new media sharing experience in Windows 7 is easier than ever to set up—and you can add new PCs, media servers, and playback devices at any time. Windows 7 also makes it simpler to find the settings you want to change and to under- stand your choices. And of course, you can always restrict access to media you don’t wish to share.

Play To

Do you have media on your PC that you want to play on your home entertainment system? More and more consumer electronics devices have the capability to connect to networks or to the Internet. However, the user interfaces on those devices can be inconsistent or difficult to use, especially if you have a large collection of digital media.

Windows 7 helps you use your home audio-video system and other networked media devices to play music, watch videos, and display photos from

your PC.

Using your PC as a controller, you can stream digital media directly to a supported device on your home network such as a Compatible with Windows 7 Digital Media Receiver, another PC running Windows 7, or an Extender for Windows Media Center, such as an Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system console.

With Play To, you can stream

digital media to devices on your

home network.

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