Can Win7 play WinXP Recorded TV

I am looking at purchasing a laptop. I have a desktop with Windows XP Media
Center and use it as my DVR. I record all of my TV to an external hard
drive. Can I continue to record on the XP machine and then view the recorded
TV on the laptop which would be Windows 7? Someone told me the format isn't
exactly the same (they mentioned the codecs) and I could experience skipping
when watching XP recorded TV on Win7 Media Center. Has anyone done this and
what were your results? Thanks in advance for any help provided.

what kind of external hard drive? USB? networked NAS? who is your provider/is
any of the content protected?

unprotected dvr-ms should playback fine in Windows 7 in general. if your laptop
is on battery power, you may need to set it to high performance.

need more info for more than a generalized answer.

On Sat, 1 May 2010 16:59:35 -0400, "DG" <> wrote:

>I am looking at purchasing a laptop. I have a desktop with Windows XP Media
>Center and use it as my DVR. I record all of my TV to an external hard
>drive. Can I continue to record on the XP machine and then view the recorded
>TV on the laptop which would be Windows 7? Someone told me the format isn't
>exactly the same (they mentioned the codecs) and I could experience skipping
>when watching XP recorded TV on Win7 Media Center. Has anyone done this and
>what were your results? Thanks in advance for any help provided.
>
Barb Bowman
MS-MVP
http://www.digitalmediaphile.com
http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.com

It is a Western Digital My Book USB, came as FAT and I reformatted to NTFS.
Cable provider is Blue Ridge Cable in Northeastern Pennsylvania. I don't
have a decoder box to the computer TV tuner card - just plain cable for that
connection. Media Center has allowed me to burn my recorded TV to DVD so
that I can play it on my DVD player so I would assume they are unprotected
files?? In addition to using the laptop for other purposes, I was hoping
that I would be able to transfer the recorded TV to the laptop - or make the
recorded TV folder on the external drive a shared folder - allowing me to
view the recorded TV in any room of my home (and avoid the time consuming
burning to DVD). Thanks so much for your help.

"Barb Bowman" <> wrote in message
news...
> what kind of external hard drive? USB? networked NAS? who is your
> provider/is
> any of the content protected?
>
> unprotected dvr-ms should playback fine in Windows 7 in general. if your
> laptop
> is on battery power, you may need to set it to high performance.
>
> need more info for more than a generalized answer.
>
> On Sat, 1 May 2010 16:59:35 -0400, "DG" <> wrote:
>
>>I am looking at purchasing a laptop. I have a desktop with Windows XP
>>Media
>>Center and use it as my DVR. I record all of my TV to an external hard
>>drive. Can I continue to record on the XP machine and then view the
>>recorded
>>TV on the laptop which would be Windows 7? Someone told me the format
>>isn't
>>exactly the same (they mentioned the codecs) and I could experience
>>skipping
>>when watching XP recorded TV on Win7 Media Center. Has anyone done this
>>and
>>what were your results? Thanks in advance for any help provided.
>>
> Barb Bowman
> MS-MVP
> http://www.digitalmediaphile.com
> http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.com

You should be ok with the dvr-ms files on the external drive. I have seen owners
of Western Digital Mybook drives having general problems getting the drive
itself recognized in Windows 7, but you may have avoided that possibility by
reformatting.

On Sun, 2 May 2010 12:52:22 -0400, "DG" <> wrote:

>It is a Western Digital My Book USB, came as FAT and I reformatted to NTFS.
>Cable provider is Blue Ridge Cable in Northeastern Pennsylvania. I don't
>have a decoder box to the computer TV tuner card - just plain cable for that
>connection. Media Center has allowed me to burn my recorded TV to DVD so
>that I can play it on my DVD player so I would assume they are unprotected
>files?? In addition to using the laptop for other purposes, I was hoping
>that I would be able to transfer the recorded TV to the laptop - or make the
>recorded TV folder on the external drive a shared folder - allowing me to
>view the recorded TV in any room of my home (and avoid the time consuming
>burning to DVD). Thanks so much for your help.
>
>"Barb Bowman" <> wrote in message
>news.. .
>> what kind of external hard drive? USB? networked NAS? who is your
>> provider/is
>> any of the content protected?
>>
>> unprotected dvr-ms should playback fine in Windows 7 in general. if your
>> laptop
>> is on battery power, you may need to set it to high performance.
>>
>> need more info for more than a generalized answer.
>>
>> On Sat, 1 May 2010 16:59:35 -0400, "DG" <> wrote:
>>
>>>I am looking at purchasing a laptop. I have a desktop with Windows XP
>>>Media
>>>Center and use it as my DVR. I record all of my TV to an external hard
>>>drive. Can I continue to record on the XP machine and then view the
>>>recorded
>>>TV on the laptop which would be Windows 7? Someone told me the format
>>>isn't
>>>exactly the same (they mentioned the codecs) and I could experience
>>>skipping
>>>when watching XP recorded TV on Win7 Media Center. Has anyone done this
>>>and
>>>what were your results? Thanks in advance for any help provided.
>>>
>> Barb Bowman
>> MS-MVP
>> http://www.digitalmediaphile.com
>> http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.com
>
Barb Bowman
MS-MVP
http://www.digitalmediaphile.com
http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.com

"DG" <> wrote in message
news:esD%...
>I am looking at purchasing a laptop. I have a desktop with Windows XP Media
>Center and use it as my DVR. I record all of my TV to an external hard
>drive. Can I continue to record on the XP machine and then view the
>recorded TV on the laptop which would be Windows 7?

Yes, provided that the content is unprotected. I have several terabytes of
older materiel that I play on my windows 7 machines.

>Someone told me the format isn't exactly the same (they mentioned the
>codecs) and I could experience skipping when watching XP recorded TV on
>Win7 Media Center. Has anyone done this and what were your results? Thanks
>in advance for any help provided.

I have not had a problem with either SDTV or OTA HDTV recorded from MCE2005

-Pete

YES... I had no problem copying or playing the Recorded TV folder
contents of my old MCE 2005 onto Win7.

DG wrote:
> I am looking at purchasing a laptop. I have a desktop with Windows XP Media
> Center and use it as my DVR. I record all of my TV to an external hard
> drive. Can I continue to record on the XP machine and then view the recorded
> TV on the laptop which would be Windows 7? Someone told me the format isn't
> exactly the same (they mentioned the codecs) and I could experience skipping
> when watching XP recorded TV on Win7 Media Center. Has anyone done this and
> what were your results? Thanks in advance for any help provided.
>
>