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A brief love affair with Windows 7 ended after just days of trying out the beta. I took extensive screen shots of the updated Media Center screens focusing on the improvements which included obfuscating the channel you want to record a series on. Instead of selecting a specific channel, you can now only choose SD or HD preferred. While I can see this might be less confusing, the problem arises when you have 4 of the same channel. The guide tells me my satellite receiver is in fact providing an HD signal despite that being impossible over an s-video connection. The recorder then decides to record all shows via satellite and labels them HD. This wouldn't be so bad in itself, and after simply turning off the satellite versions of HD channels in the guide I removed the option entirely. However, my fully recognized dual HD tuners for some reason were interpreted as only one, preventing two shows to record simultaneously. After viewing an hour of blank screen that was supposed to be "Knight Rider" (satellite didn't support that channel) and missing "Lost" entirely it was time to switch back to Vista. My fear is these problems are not limited to the beta status, but a problem inherent with the new "simplified" version of media center.