HP Pavilion Media Center 884, Supplementary Manual

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Updated HP Media Center PC Information 

 
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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 

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.