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Does a procedure something like this sound familiar?
That's the kind of lengthy, mind-numbing procedure most people in the world have to endure simply to record a TV show they like. Now compare that with the procedure for creating a "timed recording" using your Media Center PC's interactive program guide:
Wait a minutewhat happened to the other steps? There aren't any. This is the essence of the Media Center My TV experience: one-touch recording of any program. In the VCR example, most consumers never get past step 1setting the blinking LED on the recorder to the correct date and time. Each of the subsequent steps is also fraught with peril. The slightest misstep will cause the procedure to go awry, and another moment of television history will be lost forever (or at least until summer reruns begin). It is a virtual guarantee that after you become accustomed to the one-touch recording capability of your Media Center PC, the old VCR style of recording will seem at best quaint, at worst like some primitive rite performed by a backward and superstitious people out of the ancient past.
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