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Windows Media Center: SportsLounge

by Brick ONeil

If you like watching sports, you’ll love Windows Media Center SportsLounge.1 Included in Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate, this rich portal takes your sports television viewing experience to a whole new interactive level. A partnership with FOXSports.com, SportsLounge is the place to catch your favorite games, players, teams, and fantasy sports leagues—all from the most comfortable chair in your den.

Keep an eye on the Live Scoreboard

With On Now in SportsLounge, you can watch your favorite game live, while seeing real-time scores on the Live Scoreboard that runs across the top of the screen. The displayed scores are shown for all the additional games on other channels that are available with your current antenna, cable, or satellite TV service.

If you want to quickly see what’s happening with a different game on another available channel, just select the game from the Live Scoreboard, and Windows Media Center will instantly tune to that channel with instant access—no need to navigate the program guide.

Find upcoming games

You no longer need to search the entire program guide to find out when the games you care about most are coming on. On Later finds all the games airing over a two-week period that are available from your television service and neatly arranges them according to date and sport.

You can record a future game at the press of a button on your remote while viewing the upcoming schedule. Just find the upcoming game you want to watch, press the record button, and Windows Media Center adds it to your scheduled recordings.

Track your favorite players

With the Players feature, you can set up Windows Media Center to track your favorite professional athlete. Players displays stats over the course of the season or the stats for a current or recently played game. If you’re using the On Now feature and watching one game, and your favorite player makes a huge play or is on deck to bat on another channel, you’ll be notified of that event; SportsLounge will give you the option to directly tune to that channel to watch the play.


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My name is Brick ONeil, and I’ve been with the 451 Press Network since March 2007. I’m the new blogger for Microsoft Talk. We’ll be discussing ‘About Microsoft’ itself. What’s happening, who’s coming/going, what new technologies they’re coming out with, updates and upgrades. I’ll try to bring you news each day that impacts your daily life and use of Microsoft products, or just interesting information I think you’ll enjoy

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