Threads Replies Last Post 2 Pages: 1  2   WSB-DT2 over the air digital channel cannot get a listing I have set up all the over the air digital channels, and associated all of them with the proper listing for my zip code...except one, WSB-DT2 channel 1022 over the air broadcast...the Media Guide does not seem to offer a listing for it. I can watch the channel just fine, but Media Center always shows a "No data available" for program schedule info. How can we submit errors in the Media ... 2 12/28/2008 4:52:33 PM Upgrading Video Graphics Card I want to upgrade my graphics card to something that is more suited to HTPC, namely quieter and more power efficient. Also, the new cards have HDMI. I bought a new card but after install I'm getting a restricted content decoder error when I try to tune digital cable or play recorded digital cable. I believe this is due to the new card and the "broken chain" of DRM. I know I can reins... 2 12/16/2008 11:13:51 PM Topics on Electronics Electronics is the field of manipulating electrical currents and voltages using passive and active components that are connected together to create circuits. Electronic circuits range from a simple load resistor that converts a current to a voltage, to computer central-processing units (CPUs) that can contain more than a million transistors. The following indices and documents provide a basic... 1 12/9/2008 8:25:19 AM Connect from STB to computer... What are the differences in terms of quality between connecting your Cable Box via Coax cable to the computer running Windows Media Center or connecting via A/V cable and/or S-Video cables instead..? ... 3 12/8/2008 11:50:25 AM TV Picture Quality Vista Home Premium Media Center I have cable TV service through CableOne. I have attached the TV cable to my Sony Vaio running Windows Vista Home Premium--it will only detect the cable when I attach it to the analog receptor and not to the digital one (strange since I thought all cable tv was 'digital'??).. Anyway-- the picture quality of the TV broadcasts is kind of fuzzy/blurry-- what am I doing wrong? ... 2 12/8/2008 10:19:47 AM Vista Media Center and XBOX 360 I have a vista computer Dell xps1330 and XBOX 360. The 360 is hard wired into my Linksys network, while my XPS is connected using wireless. I have RoadRunner from Time Warner as my ISP. When I try to use ANY part of my media center while using the XBOX, I get extremely slow, if not unresponsive capabilities with my wireless controller, which works fine ingame! It is very frustrating ... 1 11/30/2008 6:06:01 AM Drm? Will I be able to record stuff from tv, then burn it to a disk in wmv format? Also, any way to use a cable card with xp?... 2 11/28/2008 2:58:12 AM Black Screen when MCE comes out of StandBy All, Anybody experiences the same problem? I am using MCE on Vista now for more than one year as my main Home Media Centre, and I haven't had any problem with it so far. Until recently I notice however that when MCE starts (for recording a TV program) at night or during the day, that it SWITCHES ON MY MONITOR showing a BLACK SCREEN. My monitor is thus working, and consumes then about ... 1 11/25/2008 8:48:01 AM Edit Channels Not Working I in Denver and I'm using dual digital cable tuners with Comcast. The problem I'm having is a few of my channels aren't mapping correctly. They are mostly the HD channels (including CBS, etc) andwhen I go in to edit the channel numbers with the correct mapping, the change doesn't save. Has anyone seen this before? The guide used to be correct, and then randomly got shuffled on it's las... 2 11/23/2008 6:30:35 PM Schedule for Guide download in Vista How do I change the download time of the guide in Media Center? It is currently waking me up in the middle of the night. I've found many posts on how to change the time when using Win XP MCE but none of these ideas have worked with Vista. Is there a version of TweakMCE.msi that works on Vista? Thanks... 2 11/15/2008 11:39:19 PM Vista Media Center Stops Playing Video I am using Vista Ultimate (64-bit) and, within the last several weeks (some odd update?), I have lost the ability to play video files from within Vista Media Center. I can load an ISO of a DVD and a TS video folder but it returns very choppy playback but without audio. Then, Media Center crashes and gives me the following error message/blue screen: "Files needed to display are not i... 1 11/13/2008 7:47:11 PM Vista Home Premium Media Center Problems Hi All, Could use some guidance.....I was having a problem with Media Center between my Vista Home Premium & my 360 Elite....Duplicate listings of all my music.. I decided to remove my media extender on the 360 and create a new one....... However, I cannot seem to find Media Center on my PC anywhere now....Its not listed in my Program Files.... Can anyone give me any pointers in fin... 2 11/6/2008 4:58:10 AM bluray support why do we get with ultimate stuff we never use like dreamscene and those silly games what about bluray support in mediacenter (MC) we can play video and dvd but not the newest technology; bluray this would be an extra to make ultimate worth buying for now i have to use MC for everything, exept for bluray, therefor i have to start Powerdvd on my HTPC isnt it possible to view my bluray... 2 11/3/2008 5:46:52 PM transferring music from my vista laptop to my sony w980i mobile when my music has copied to my phone a lot of the track names and artists are showing as unknown how do i correct this? The cd's ripped were original and not copies. -- Adam in Manchester UK... 1 10/31/2008 1:51:25 AM how to uninstall media centre tia... 3 10/28/2008 11:34:56 PM How to find, Which TV tuner card is installed in my PC? How do I find which TV tuner card (Manufacturer name) is installed inside my PC (HCL beanstalk nano? A RF input socket is installed in my PC. My Windows XP media center is not detecting any TV signal from my Satelite reciever which is throwing a RF out put.? ... 3 10/19/2008 3:38:56 PM Problems with Guide On 10/7, my Verizon FiOS added a large number of HD channels (good news) and therefore changed most of the cable channel numbers. About a month before this, I contacted zap2it.com to inform them of the change that was coming. On 10/7 they didn't have the new channels setup so I contacted them again with the new lineup. Yesterday, on 10/9 it was up. However, when I told my Vista MCE sy... 4 10/16/2008 3:31:54 AM How do I connect my Comcast Digital cable box to my desktop pc ?? Is there a way to connect Comcast cable to my desktop pc ?? .. I would like to be able to record from cable directly to my hard drive, and in reverse, be able to pick from a 'library' off my hard drive to watch movies .... I have: Display Adapter: ATI Technologies / All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500 DCT6200 Comcast digital cable box Lynksys WRT54G v2.2 router The back of the cable box has ... 4 10/9/2008 9:19:14 PM vista ultimate media center says trial version no longer available Hi please help me. I have vista ultimate 64bit and have had it installed for around 6 months or so, I have used it for recording tv via hauppage vhr 4000 for all this time. BUT, when I go to watch the recorded tv now, it just say that it is a trial version and is no longer available for use ?? If I change the system date to before 2006 then all is fine and I can watch the recorded p... 3 10/6/2008 6:05:46 PM Media centre will no longer play video At some point an upgrade! to Windows Media Centre seems to be preventing the video portion to play and all I get is the audio channel with a white screen with a yellow vertical line on the left and side of the screen. I only just noticed this because I don't play DVD's on the PC much. My laptop with Vista works fine. They are both Vista Ultimate. Has anyone else come across this proble... 1 10/2/2008 2:03:01 PM I receive no sound through the windows Vista Media Center TV tuner Well so this is the question, I had a couple of different TV tuners and neither of them could get me any sound at all. It is not that the sound card was not working, because I have every whistle and chime that Vista provides me with, it is that when I select the option to see TV signal, it does not sound anything, even when the visual quality of the image is outstanding. The tuner I am talk... 6 7/13/2007 1:06:08 PM Still Issues with Permium Content on Sony VGX-XL3 Hi Barb, Posted a while back about not getting premium content with my Sony Vaio with CableCard. Problem seems to be intermittent. Have worked with Sony and they swear it is a signal strength problem. Have also been working with a very diligent Comcast support tech in the CableCard area. I told him about you and he may reach out to you within Comcast channels. I believe his name is... 10 7/12/2007 6:40:14 PM No Support for Motorola VIP1510? Does Media Center support Motorola VIP1510 set top box? (http://www.motorola.com/content.jsp?globalObjectId=7461-10536-10544) I have tried to configure MC but have filed when setting up the IR to control the set top box. Any advice?... 1 7/10/2007 12:22:01 PM Vista MCE Will Not Pair with ATI TV Wonder w/CableCard I just purchased an HP m8010y Media Center PC that came with an ATI TV Wonder OpenCable Receiver (1049) digital cable tuner and have been unable to pair to a Comcast CableCard. I receive Authorization Failure 1070 every time I try to pair the card. Comcast has been out three times and say they've never seen one of these before. I receive some standard channels and some HD channels, bu... 13 7/9/2007 1:22:17 PM Premium channels freeze My Comcast digital cable box is connected to my Media Center PC. The PC is new and running Vist Home Premium. The PC is has 4 GB of RAM with approximately 3.75 GB of unused memory. When I tune to a premium channel (HBO, Showtime, etc.) after about 30 seconds the picture freezes, and the sound stops. All the other channels display correctly. When the picture freezes, the PC also freezes ... 2 7/8/2007 8:00:02 PM 2 Pages: 1  2