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About Teletext
Teletext is additional information that is broadcast within
a TV signal in some countries/regions. You can navigate
the Teletext main page and subpages to find information
such as the weather, sports scores, or community events.
You can turn on subtitles in a specific language for a
program you are watching. When a TV show is
Safeguarding Recorded TV Programs
Most television broadcasters do not encrypt programs, so
a recording can be played on any HP Digital
Entertainment Center. A recording of a broadcaster-
encrypted TV program, though, can be played only on
the PC that recorded it.
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 HP Digital Entertainment
Center and is required to play broadcaster-encrypted TV
programs previously recorded to your hard disk drive,
copied to DVD, or copied to other media. When you
perform a system recovery or replace the hard disk drive
in your HP Digital Entertainment Center, you lose the
special code.
You can safeguard your capability to play recorded TV
programs by making a backup CD and using it as
described in the procedures provided here. Make the
backup CD now, before you need it, so that you can use
Important information about recorded TV programs
When you replace the hard disk drive, you lose any files
or software that you created, saved, or installed on the
HP Digital Entertainment Center. You also lose a special
code that Microsoft includes in the files of the recorded TV
recorded, the Teletext subtitles are stored with the
recording so you can view the subtitles when you play the
recording later.
Teletext may not be available for all the channels you
receive. The Teletext button will only display on the
information bar if Teletext is available for that channel. If
you would like more information about which channels
have Teletext available, contact your TV service provider.
the CD after you perform a system recovery or replace
the hard disk drive in your HP Digital Entertainment
Center. If you do not have the backup CD after you
perform a system recovery or replace the hard disk drive,
you will not be able to play any previously recorded TV
programs that are broadcaster-encrypted.
The procedures that follow describe how to prepare your
HP Digital Entertainment Center, make the backup files
you need, copy the file to CD, and use the backup CD to
restore the files to your HP Digital Entertainment Center
after a system recovery.
To safeguard your recorded TV programs you need to:
Prepare the code key files.
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Make a backup CD.
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Perform a system recovery, if necessary.
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Use the code key backup CD after a system recovery.
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programs.
Without the code, Media Center will not play the TV
programs previously recorded to disk or copied to DVD
or to other media.
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