Media center (or media centre) may refer to:
- Audio-visual software application or a dedicated media player device for such use
- Home theater PC, media computer designed for living-room or Home cinema use
- Home cinema, also commonly referred to as a home theater or home media room
- Windows Media Center, Microsoft PC software application for Home Theater
- MediaPortal Media Center, a free alternative to Windows Media Center
- JRiver Media Center, a multimedia application for Windows computers by JRiver
- XBMC Media Center, cross-platform software formerly named Xbox Media Center
- Portable Media Center
- MediaImpact Media Center
- Western Digital Media Center
- Sally Project (Touchscreen Application Framwork) OpenSource software, designed for touchscreen Windows machines
- 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
- Evanston Community Media Center
- San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center
- Librarianship
- Hybrid library area storing audio or visual material rather than books
- Civic Media Center
- Keio Media Centers (Libraries)
- Consortium of College and University Media Centers
Famous quotes containing the words media and/or center:
“The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”
—Guy Debord (b. 1931)
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