Record live TV to watch later
If you buy Windows Media Center, you can record live TV shows and movies right onto your PC. You can even schedule recordings of new episodes of your favorite TV series.
Set it up
If you don't have Windows Media Center, you can purchase the Windows Media Center Pack.
Before you get started, you need two things:
A TV tuner to connect to your PC. You can find this online or at an electronics store.
Go to the
Compatibility Center for Windows 8 to find out which TV tuner you can use.
A TV signal source (such as from a TV antenna or a cable TV jack).
Connect the TV tuner to your PC and make sure your signal source works for your TV tuner, and then you're ready to watch and record.
Record live TV
Open the Search charm, enter Windows Media Center, tap or click Apps, and then tap or click Windows Media Center.
Scroll to TV, and then tap or click Live TV.
To start recording while the show is airing, tap or click the Record button in the playback controls.
Schedule recordings
Open the Search charm, enter Windows Media Center, tap or click Apps, and then tap or click Windows Media Center.
Scroll to TV, and then tap or click Search.
Tap or click the category that you want to search by (such as Title), and then follow the instructions to start a search.
On the search results page, tap or click the TV show or movie that you want to record, and then click Record to schedule a recording.
Watch a recorded show
Open the Search charm, enter Windows Media Center, tap or click Apps, and then tap or click Windows Media Center.
Scroll to TV, tap or click Recorded TV, tap or click the show you want to watch, and then tap or click Play or Resume.
Use the playback controls to fast forward, rewind, skip forward or backward, pause, change volume, and mute.
