Recording TV Shows with Windows XP Media Center PC

Figure 1: The recording process starts here.

4. Select Guide.

The Guide window appears.

5. Select the show you want to record.

The Program Info screen appears.

6. Select Record.

Media Center saves this recording data in its little computer brain and records the show when it airs.

In MCE 2002, your MCE PC had to be running or in standby mode — not Hibernate mode — for this to work. Waking from Hibernate mode is now supported in MCE 2004. (Microsoft needed to make this change to support notebook computers.)

7. Press the Back button (or any other Media Center function button on the remote) to get back to what you were previously doing.

The program you selected for recording now has a little red dot next to its title in the Guide. You can check that you did things correctly by navigating to the show in the Guide and looking for the dot.

Media Center checks to make sure that you haven't already set up a different recording at the same time. Recall that an MCE PC has only one TV tuner and can record only one program at a time. If you try to make your MCE PC record two things simultaneously, a Conflict screen appears, as shown in Figure 2. It's up to you to make a choice — use the remote to select the program you want to record (this is a little bit of TV triage for you). The other program will not be recorded.

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Figure 2: Oops! You can't record two shows at once, so choose the one you want.

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