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How many hours of TV shows can I store on my DualTV MCE system?
Media Center offers four levels of recording quality, Fair, Good, Better, and Best. The quality level affects the amount of disk space needed: the higher the quality level, the larger the recorded TV file, and the more disk space needed.
Media Center offers four recording quality levels:
The following table describes approximately how much disk space that recorded shows of different lengths take up at each recording level.
Show length | Best | Better | Good | Fair |
30 minutes | 1.6 GB | 1.25 GB | .9 GB | .75 GB |
1 hour | 3.3 GB | 2.5 GB | 1.75 GB | 1.5 GB |
2 hours | 6.5 GB | 5 GB | 3.5 GB | 3 GB |
The following table describes approximately how many hours of recorded TV shows you can store on your computer, based on the hard disk space that you have assigned for storing recorded TV.
Disk Space | Best | Better | Good | Fair |
100 GB | 30 hours | 40 hours | 57 hours | 67 hours |
150 GB | 45 hours | 60 hours | 86 hours | 100 hours |
200 GB | 60 hours | 80 hours | 114 hours | 133 hours |
250 GB | 76 hours | 100 hours | 143 hours | 167 hours |