- Old Electronics Reborn?
- And Now for the Payoff...
- Renew, Reuse, Recycle Your Xbox
And Now for the Payoff...
You're ready to reap the benefits of your labors. Move back to your Xbox Media Center Extender, which should show you an interface quite similar to the one you are used to using on your Media Center PC. You now have full access to the media content that is stored on your Media Center PC.
You can use the remote control that shipped with the Xbox Media Center Extender to navigate through the menus of the GUI. The remote control works just like that of your Media Center PC. In the image below, you can see that I navigated to the Recorded TV menu item.
You can do all the things that you do with the host Media Center PC (e.g., view live TV, view recorded TV, view Pictures, play music files, etc), via the Media Center Extender's GUI... pretty awesome considering all of your media content is actually stored on your host Media Center PC.
As an aside, in my experience, watching live TV on the Xbox Media Center Extender was a bit of a choppy experience. However, watching recorded TV across the network was very smooth.