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

6. If you want, select Add Title to input a name for your recording, and then

select Save.

7. Select Record.

Keyword Recording

Media Center also allows you to create a persistent program search that will track

down and record shows automatically, based on search terms you define. These

search criteria can include an actor’s or a director’s name, or keywords that represent

subject matter or names that appear in the show titles or descriptions.

The beauty of this type of search-and-record mission is that it will keep looking for

your shows until it finds what you want and records it for you.

Here’s how to create a persistent keyword record command:

1. From the My TV menu, select Recorded TV.

2. Select Add Recording.

3. Select Create a Custom Recording with Keyword.

4. Now you have an opportunity to specify whether your keyword will appear

as part of an actor’s name, a director’s name, a movie title, a TV program

title, or just a Generic Keyword.

5. Select the type of keyword you want to use, and then enter the keyword using

the remote control text-input buttons or your keyboard.

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FIGURE 8.3

Manual record

can be useful

when you know

that something

is going to be on

a certain chan-

nel at a certain

time—and your

program guide

doesn’t—or if

you just want to

record a certain

portion of a

show.