title: Media center
text: # Media center
  
  Media center or media centre may refer to:
  
  ## Audio-visual software and devices
  
  * Entertainment center, a furniture housing electronics for media consumption
  * Home cinema, also commonly referred to as a dedicated "home theater" or "home media room"
  * Home theater PC, media computer designed for living-room or Home cinema use
     * JRiver Media Center, a multimedia application for Windows computers
     * Kodi, open source media center, cross-platform software formerly named XBMC and originally named Xbox Media Center
     * MediaPortal Media Center, a free alternative to Windows Media Center
     * Portable Media Center
     * Sally Project, open source software, designed for touchscreen Windows machines
     * Western Digital Media Center
     * Windows Media Center, Microsoft PC software application for home theater
  
  ## Journalism
  
  * International Broadcast Centre at a major sports event such as the Olympic Games
  * Independent Media Center or Indymedia
  * RSV Media Center
  * Women's Media Center
  * Women Media Center
  * International Middle East Media Center
  * San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center
  
  ## Librarianship
  
  * Hybrid library, an area storing audio or visual material rather than books
  * School media center
  * Civic Media Center
  * Keio Media Centers (Libraries)
  