Chapter 4

Fine-Tuning Your Experience

The topics in this chapter will help you fine-tune your experience with the Digital Entertainer Express the following areas:

Improving media library search results using tags and media art.

Optimizing network performance to ensure that you get the best entertainment experience possible with your equipment.

Taking precautions so that information such as personal photos sent over a wireless connection are not subject to snooping.

Assuring that adequate parental controls are in place for using the digital media in your network.

Viewing Digital Entertainer Express Status from Your PC

From your Windows-based PC, you can view the status of any Digital Entertainer Express in your network.

If you have more than one Digital Entertainer Express on your home network, you can use the remote to check what is playing in another room. Select More > Now playing, and use the left and right remote buttons to scroll between rooms.

To view the status:

1.From the Windows Start menu, select All Programs > NETGEAR Digital Entertainer for Windows > Digital Entertainer.

This icon

appears in the system tray when the Digital Entertainer for Windows software is

running.

 

2.Click to open the Digital Entertainer for Windows screen.

3.Select Open.

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