Playing Recorded Tv Programs - HP Media Center,Pavilion Media Center 884 Supplementary Manual

The Make Compatible feature in DLA makes
uncompressed CD-R and DVD+R discs readable
by most read-only CD and DVD drives, even if
DLA is not installed in the PC. When you make a
disc compatible, DLA closes the session on your
disc. This means:
With a DVD+R, you are not able to add data to
the disc.
With a CD-R, you are able to add more data in
another recording session, but you need to
select Make Compatible again after you
add the files.

Playing Recorded TV Programs

Most television broadcasters do not encrypt
programs, so a recording can be played on any
Media Center PC. A recording of a broadcaster-
encrypted TV program, though, can be played
only on the PC that recorded it. To protect your
ability to play recorded TV programs, follow the
instructions in "Safeguarding Your Capability
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Updated HP Media Center PC Information
to Play Recorded TV Programs" on page 10
of this document.
Note:
To copy a recorded TV show to DVD to view on
a home DVD player, see "Using MyDVD to Copy
Recorded TV Programs to DVD" on page 17 of
this document.
For information on playing recorded TV programs
on other devices, go to the Web site:
http://www.hp.com/go/mediacenterpc
Safeguarding Your Capability
to Play Recorded TV Programs
When you record TV programs using Media
Center, the TV program broadcaster may have an
encryption code that Microsoft includes as a
special code in the recorded files. This code is
keyed to your PC and is required to play
broadcaster-encrypted TV programs previously
recorded to hard disk, copied to DVD, or copied
to other media. When you perform a system
recovery or replace the hard disk drive in your
PC, you lose the special code.