Connecting Your Xbox 360 to Your Home or the World

Figure 1: Find a movie to watch on the Windows Media Center PC through the Xbox 360.

Other Windows PCs

If your Windows PC isn't a Media Center PC, you can still access your Windows PC digital library through Windows Media Connect.

Windows Media Connect turns your PC into a media server that can host music and photos for your Xbox 360. This capability is available in Xbox 360 through the Media blade shown in Figure 2.

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Figure 2: The Media blade on the Xbox 360.

Blades are the pages of the Xbox 360 dashboard.

Congregating with the community

If you have an Xbox 360, you may get . . . attached to it. Don't worry — others have felt this so strongly that they've formed huge communities on the Internet where they can talk about their systems and the games they play on them. Join other attached people at Xbox.com and share your passion.

Through Xbox.com you can:

• Get online support

• Visit the forums for information from other users

• Get the scoop on upcoming games

This community is big, and it's great. When you ask questions on the forums at Xbox.com, community members quickly answer them.

Got a question about how to get through a level in a new game? Need to know how to rise in the rankings? Someone has probably already answered it on Xbox.com. Save yourself some time:

• Look in the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) at the top of some of the forums you visit.

• Search for your question in the forums. You'll find the Search link in the upper-right corner of the Forum page. To perform a search, follow these steps:

• 1. Click the Search link on the page.

• 2. Enter the text you're looking for and press Enter.

• For example, if you're looking for tips for getting through Kameo, try entering phrases like "Stuck Kameo" or "Kameo Level 1".

• Enter only important words to find what you need. For example, "Stuck Kameo" is probably better than "Stuck in Kameo" because "Stuck in Kameo" automatically skips answers that don't have the unimportant word "in."

These searches can lead you straight to the answer you're looking for!

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