Loading ...Yesterday, Microsoft announced that Vista Media Center users (available on Vista Ultimate and Home Premium editions) would be able to access Internet TV. Finding this news story on a number of websites is pretty easy. Finding instructions however, is not.
Here’s how you do it:
1. When in Media Center, go down to Tasks, then go over to settings and press ok
2. Go down to TV and press ok
3. Go down to Guide and press ok
4. Go down to “Get Latest Guide Listings”, press ok and then click Yes.
That’s it, after the download you’ll be able to see the Internet TV option under TV and Movies.
The UI is pretty nice and intuitive. The content is somewhat lacking but this is understandable as it is in beta. I did experience a bug (hey it’s beta, that’s expected) while watching Arrested Development and then pressing the green button, then clicking on Now Playing, it didn’t take me back to full screen video even though its still playing – I got “Unable to display page”. You can use the back button to back out.
Thanks to The Green Button forums for the instructions:
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/2/207078/ShowThread.aspx
News sources:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/27/microsoft-launches-windows-media-center-internet-tv-beta/
