Figure 1: PrimeTime in action.
PrimeTime is a popular way of creating DVDs. It has a ton of great features, including the following:
- You can use DVDs created with PrimeTime in just about any DVD player.
- PrimeTime is also one of the only programs that can convert the files that Media Center uses to record TV (called DVR-MS) to standard MPEG files that a DVD player can display. This is a BIG DEAL!
- You can insert a rewritable DVD (marked RW) into your MCE PC and use PrimeTime to change its contents. You can remove all the programs you recorded and replace them with others, you can remove a few, or you can add more shows if you have room.
- PrimeTime uses Dolby Digital (AC-3 encoding) to record the audio portion of the DVD. Dolby Digital is a compressed audio system that uses about one-tenth the disc space of the uncompressed alternative, PCM. So with PrimeTime (and Dolby Digital), you use up less of the DVD's storage space with audio — leaving room for more TV shows per disc!
- Media Center does not support Dolby Digital 5.1 for My TV, so you get only two-channel (stereo) sound from any recorded TV programs.
- PrimeTime has a handy "bit-budget" indicator. (See the disc on the left side of Figure 1.) As soon as you select a show, the indicator updates the amount of space left on the DVD.
PrimeTime works with all types of recordable DVDs (the blank discs themselves) and makes DVDs that can play in the vast majority of DVD players. You can be pretty darned confident that grandma will be able to play that disc you sent of the grandkids' latest school recital.
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