Product Review

Discs on your shelves. Files on your computer. Websites around the web. You, the modern media consumer, don’t get your entertainment from just one place: you get it from a variety of different sources.

XBMC is the ultimate media center software, because it gives you a single interface for accessing all of your media from all of these different places. Even better: it does so using a remote-friendly interface, so with a few taps of your remote you can browse your digital collection of music and videos, explore some of the most popular media sites on the web or check out live Internet TV from around the world.

It’s every bit as good as it sounds, but unfortunately XBMC can also be a confusing piece of software to get started with. Don't worry. In this guide you'll go through the process of setting up XBMC for the first time. Soon you’ll have your entire media collection added, extensions for your favorite online media installed and various other tweaks set up to make everything work just as you’d expect.

Our resident author Justin Pot, also of http://justinpot.com/, will teach you everything you need to know about XBMC to get started and set up properly.

You'll learn how to:
- Install XBMC.
- Add your media to XBMC.
- Add extensions to XBMC.
- Using themes with XBMC.
- Add a remote to XBMC.
- Use XBMC shortcuts.
- Other tips and Tricks.