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The PMC User Interface

Let's spend some time on the Portable Media Center User Interface (UI). The UI is essentially a simplified version of the Windows Media Center UI. When you press the green button (E-Home button) on the front of the YH-999, you'll get the following screen:

There are five major selections you can choose from:

My TV
My Music
My Pictures
My Videos
Settings

My TV

The My TV UI allows you to see all the different television recordings you synchronized with your Portable Media Center . It is important to note that this section really only applies to users of the Windows Media Center OS. If you are using a standard Windows XP system with WMP 10, then your videos will be stored in the My Videos section.

The top of the UI allows you to sort your TV shows in a variety of ways. These include:
New - sort through your televison collection by looking at the newest shows

Sort By Date - sort through the collection via the date of the show recorded

Sort By Name - sort through the collection via the names of the shows recorded

When you select a television show to watch, you can use the various controls on the front panel of the device to control the playback of the show. One of the benefits of using the Windows Media Center Edition PC is the ability for the OS to synchronize television shows to your device but also information about the recorded television shows.

My Music

The My Music UI allows you to see all the various music files that are stored on your PMC. The UI allows you to sort your collection using the following methods:

New - all the newest music stored onto your PMC

Albums - allows you to sort through your collection via Album names

Artists - allows you to sort through your collection via the Artist names

Playlists - select songs to playback via pre-made playlists

Songs - Sort through your collection by going through your entire song list

Genres - Sort through your collection by looking at the song genres

As with many portable audio players, it can be tedious when you're trying to sort through large collections of files. The PMC is no different in this front. One of the nice features of the PMC UI is album cover art for your music collections. When you're scrolling through your music collection, the album covers disappear to speed up the scrolling speeds.

Once you've selected an album or song to play back, you will get something similar to this:

You can scroll through a variety of UI displays while you're listening to your music. Here is a sampling of the displays:

My Pictures

As with the other sections, you can sort through your pictures using the following sorting methods:

Sort by name - sort through your picture collections by the image names

Sort by date - sort through your collection using the file date

New - sort through your collection by looking at the newest pictures

There's not much to say about the Picture section. You can create a slideshow for your image collections and also play back music in the background while the slideshow plays back.

My Videos

The My Videos section has the following sorting methods:

Sort by name - sort through your videos using the names of the files