Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Windows® XP Media Center®

started—up to 30 minutes before you got around to pressing the Rec button. (Of

course, that will work only if My TV was tuned to that channel before you issued the

record command.)

To stop the recording, just press Stop. However, unlike most VCRs, My TV will first

ask whether you really want to stop recording (see Figure 8.1).

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FIGURE 8.1

The Interrupt

Recording mes-

sage displays

whenever you

manually stop a

recording in

progress.

Recording from the Program Guide or

Search Results

As described previously, My TV’s one-touch recording feature (see Figure 8.2) is so

simple that it hardly bears mentioning: Highlight the listing for the show you want,

and press Rec. Just remember, though, that for My TV to successfully execute a timed

recording based on your one-touch request, your Media Center PC needs to remain

turned on, operating in either standby mode or hibernation mode (for details about

standby and hibernation modes, see Chapter 4, “Navigating XP Media Center’s ‘10-

Foot’ Interface”).