Consumers want their personal media collections available throughout their homes. This paper highlights the instrumental role that Windows® PCs play in enabling the home media ecosystem. To enable consumers to unlock the potential of their Windows PCs and enjoy widespread media access, personal and premium content must flow smoothly between Windows PCs and networked media devices.
This paper describes the Media Sharing functionality in Windows 7, and the Windows logo requirements that are associated with network media devices, so that manufacturers of networked media devices can develop products that are highly interoperable with Windows. Concepts and techniques discussed in this paper include the following:
A brief history of home media entertainment.
Baseline technologies, Windows scenarios, general architecture, and supported formats.
Windows logo requirements for network media devices.
What makes a good digital media controller, digital media renderer, and digital media server.
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