American Idol Top 12 Girls, and What Is Wrong With My DVR?

I'm having problems recording American Idol this season with my Windows Media Center (and all Fox shows, for that matter - I noticed that Sunday's Family Guy had this problem too.) It records, but when I play it back, there are colored vertical lines covering the bottom half of the screen. What's up with that? Is there some sort of protection on Fox shows now? If so, that SUCKS. I mean, I can't even watch the .dvr-ms file - and when I try to convert it to something like an .mpg/.mpeg (the horror!) I can't. My converter (DVRMSToolboxGUI) hangs. If anybody knows a way around this, let me know. This means I can't even record them to watch later. Sheesh. I'll try to figure it out as soon as I can - I'm on Spring Break next week, so maybe I can tinker with it then.

For now, here's a list of the songs from tonight, in case you want to know what they are. And girls? Keep in mind there ARE female singers besides Aretha Franklin. I ::heart:: her too, but they should limit Aretha to once per episode or something. Same with Stevie Wonder for the guys.

1. Stephanie Edwards - How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore (Alicia Keys)
2. Amy Krebs - I Can't Make You Love Me (Bonnie Raitt)
3. Leslie Hunt - You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman (Aretha Franklin)
4. Sabrina Sloan - I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You (Aretha Franklin)
5. Antonella Barba - I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing (Aerosmith)
6. Jordin Sparks - Give Me One Reason (Tracy Chapman) - Aww. She's cute.
7. Nicole Tranquillo - Stay (Chaka Khan / Erykah Badu) - She made scary faces and yelled at me. Did not like.
8. Haley Scarnato - It's All Coming Back To Me Now (Celine Dion)
9. Melinda Doolittle - Since You've Been Gone (Aretha Franklin)
10. Alaina Alexander - Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders - Meh. I like The Pretenders, but even they bore me when they sing that particular song. Sorry. I really love her hair, though.
11. Gina Glocksen - All By Myself (Eric Carmen / Celine Dion) - She reminds me of my cousin Teresa (except for that red streak), who is a reader of my blog and is seriously pregnant. Everybody wave at Cousin Teresa who is seriously pregnant!
12. LaKisha Jones - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (from Dreamgirls) - Fantastic. I'm perturbed by her teeth, though - I hope she gets them fixed. Messed-up teeth annoy me. Does that make me evil?

Stephanie Edwards, Sabrina Sloan, LaKisha Jones, Jordin Sparks, Melinda Doolittle, and Gina Glocksen were the best, IMO, with LaKisha waaaaaaay above everyone else. Any of the others could go home - hopefully Amy Krebs (who looks like she's hyperreflexic) and Nicole Tranquillo.