Meedio Essentials of Home Entertainment

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Product Features

• Turns your existing PC into a customizable digital media center.
• View photos, listen to music, watch DVD movies and digital videos, check the weather, read the news, and play games using your TV and remote control.
• Automatically organizes all your digital media files in a single
• Access over two hundred free user-contributed themes, plug-ins, and

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009K5TY8
• Item model number: 00005
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 26, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,644 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Product Description

The interface for your digital home

Meedio Essentials is the ideal solution to transform an existing PC into an all-in-one multimedia center. Meedio Essentials helps you enjoy the true benefits of multimedia by making all your digital media accessible from one easy-to-use and highly customizable user-interface. Meedio Essentials is an extremely versatile application that includes all the functionalities of an image browser, video player, audio player, playlist manager...

photos
• Share your digital photos with your family and friends by displaying albums and slideshows on your TV.
• Organize photo albums and slideshows from folders on your hard drive or network.

music
• Play music from your PC, network, CDs, or the Internet with the integrated music player and its rich graphical interface & visualizations
• Automatically lookup CD track information from the Internet
• Display album cover art in the Music jukebox
• Customize the music library to organize your files by genre, artist, or any other category.

video
• Watch your DVDs,WMV, MPEG, AVI, DivX, XviD, and many other popular formats with the integrated video player
• Customize the movie library with support for categories such as actor, director, rating, cover art, and more.

weather
• Consult your local weather conditions, forecasts, and animated weather images.

menus
• Personalize and create your own multi-level menus with the easy to use menu editor
• Create multiple user accounts and limit access to specific modules and locations
• Protect your children by only granting them access to the content you specify.

system control
• Remotely control your PC to reboot, hibernate, or execute custom commands
• Browse, copy, paste, delete, and open any file or folder on your PC or network
• Check for new and updated versions of Meedio Essentials and Meedio add-ins
• Download, browse, and install new graphical themes.

Product Description

Express yourself! Download over 200 themes, plugins, and extensions created by Meedio, third-party developers, and other users just like you. With Meedio Essentials' open platform, the possibilities are endless. The Meedio Developers Network includes over 400 of the industry's most innovative developers.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what I was looking for, June 17, 2005

By 

Gerald Plasky "Big Gerr" (Plymouth, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Meedio Essentials of Home Entertainment (CD-ROM)

I have used this package for awhile now and I am just amazed at all the original plugins that keep showing up and adding value to this program. It was easy to setup and use. It's hardware requirements were also lower than Windows Media Center. I am using a remote with mine and have it conected to my HDTV in the front room. And the most important part is the wife likes it and uses it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars User friendly, flexible, and comprehensive, June 26, 2005

By 

Kevin M. (SF Bay Area, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Meedio Essentials of Home Entertainment (CD-ROM)

Meedio is a comprehensive tool allowing everyone from the beginner to the expert to experience the "whole house media" revolution. The software is simple enough for newcomers to get started with just a few mouse clicks, yet it also offers sophisticated features aimed at those who want the power and flexibility to meet more demanding requirements. Finally we have a solution that is easy to use, powerful and flexible enough to create a system that meets our wants and needs, rather than a piece of software that is pretty on the outside but only offers a limited set of features!

In addition to the full list of features available in Meedio Essentials, the software supports a comprehensive way to add custom functionality to the software. Through an active and healthy community of users and developers on the Meedio.com web site, the Meedio experience is enhanced beyond what competing products could even dream.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great product, June 17, 2005

By 

David Case - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Meedio Essentials of Home Entertainment (CD-ROM)

Meedio is the most customizable and powerful HTPC software I have come across. I have used it for a year and am amazed at the number of plugins that are continually releases. Nothing else comes close.