When you install MP, the installer asks you whether you want to use MP to watch and record TV. If you answer "yes", the "TV plugin" is installed. It is this plugin that is responsible for handling the "Recorded TV", "Recorded Radio", and related TV panels.I meant recorded TV. Is that just installed when you install MP1?
If you answer "no", ... well I don't know what happens, because I have never answered "no". It is possible that the TV plugin is not installed, in which case the "Recorded TV" panel and related panels will not be accessible.
You can answer "yes" even if you don't have any TV tuners installed (you might, for example, be intending to install them later).
-- from CyberSimian in the UK