problems recording with Windows Media Center

Are you suggesting that lowering the quality may improve performance because of the capability of my computer or because of another factor? I have a PC with an i7 processor and 12 GB of RAM, along with a graphics card with 1 GB of memory, so it seems like I could easily record at the highest quality level without any problems. By the way, I could not find where to adjust the quality settings in Windows Media Center. I did a Google search and it sounds like they removed that option from the Windows 7 version.

When you say format, are you referring to whether it is in HD or standard definition? I record fully HD programs all the time, but standard definition programs also have the same glitch on these two channels.

Yes I hear what you're saying, but as I said in my last message, the option to change recording quality settings was apparently removed in the Windows 7 version of Windows Media Center. I have done exactly what you suggested, but there is no place that says quality. Maybe it is located somewhere else but I cannot find it.

see edit to above

Thanks for your suggestions, but that still doesn't help. I went to the website you provided the link for, and checked the signal strength for each channel. Nearly all of them were very strong, including the channels where I keep experiencing this glitch. The weaker channels are ones I don't even watch.

I have looked under recording defaults a dozen times and I don't see anything about quality. You say that this is well documented. Where can I find such documentation? Maybe you could give me a screenshot of what you're talking about. If you do google search for Windows media Center recording quality, you will find that there are many other people who also cannot find the quality setting. So I'm not making this up.

please provide a screenshot of yours...

Here it is.

This link from thegreenbutton is from 2005:

TV Recording Quality Settings, Where R They? - The Green Button

Has been the same since. but later in the thread we see:

The quality settings are related to the hardware MPEG2 encoder on the TV tuner card. As you are using a DVB-T card which doesn't have a hardware encoder (as the stream is broadcast in MPEG2), you don't get a quality setting. If you used an analogue card you would get the settings.
Cheers
Andy

So what does that mean for my problem? Does this mean that the quality is not an issue?

dmehling said:

Thanks for your suggestions, but that still doesn't help. I went to the website you provided the link for, and checked the signal strength for each channel. Nearly all of them were very strong, including the channels where I keep experiencing this glitch. The weaker channels are ones I don't even watch.

at the FCC map, what is the BAND of the channels received. Are they all the same?