Windows Media Center, once hailed as the heart of the home theater PC, continues to cast a long shadow over the modern Windows experience. Years after its discontinuation, a resilient community of enthusiasts has revived the rich, all-in-one digital media hub—bringing classic DVR, TV streaming...
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I have a Ceton Infinity 4 TV tuner card in my computer. I recently moved and had to get a new Cable Card but I was unable to pair it to the Ceton card due to not being able to get the Host ID of the Ceton card. Windows Media Center usually displays a page with this information but after 15 or so...
I'm trying to figure out why my htpc is suffering at streaming videos from the net. htpc is running Windows 7 SP1 with all the patches etc., except the annoying Windows 10 stuff. (I've not upgraded this to 10 nor do I plan to as it is an htpc using MediaCenter.)
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I now only have one gripe with Windows 10 now, instead of two.
SLI now work's as Nvidia gave Microsoft new GeForce 353.62 driver's. You can only get them through Windows Update so far. Nvidia hasn't posted them on their site yet. SLI now work's, but be forewarned The display with crash if you...
I'm going to be upgrading my Hauppage WinTV HVR-1850 tv tuner next month to a Ceton Infinitv6 PCIe cable card tuner. I was wondering if anyone on the forum that has a Ceton cable card tuner could answer a question for me. Do the Ceton tuner's have any sort of software that can record tv show's...
Does anyone know of a tv tuner that has hdmi input, so you can connect a cable box or satellite box to it to get true hd channels ? All, I've seen are one's with analog cable or cable card input.
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., July 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc., the leading developer and manufacturer TV receivers for PCs, announced today the availability of the new WinTV-HVR-2255. This half height, PCI Express, TV tuner has dual NTSC/ATSC/QAM receivers built-in and is...
With the recent news and rumors about Valve's "Steam Box" and Windows 8 new metro design, I've started thinking about a game console/media player based on the Windows 8 platform. Although controller/remote support isn't supported for navigating the Metro UI, (it should be added in a future...
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I have a TV Tuner and have used Windows Media Center to record a TV program. Using Live TV to play back the program permits me to turn Closed Captions On or Off. However, recording the program to a DVD still permits showing the Program, but not able to turn On Closed Captions. This is the case...
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seem to record the Closed Captions.I have a TV Tuner and have used Windows
Media Center to record a TV program. Using Live TV to play back the program
permits me to turn Closed Captions On or Off. However, recording the program to
a DVD still permits showning the Program...
I installed Windows 8 x64 just yesterday and I must say I was amazed with its performance! It worked great with my old setup, an old Intel Core2Duo 2.13 GHz and 4 GB DDR2 memory. My previous OS was Windows XP but I decided to try Windows 8 since I had a free license as a student and my old...
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I have recently gone from a satellite broadband connection which I had set up through a home network, to using a Sierra Wireless Aircard 753S on the Australian Telstra 3G network.
Under my previous set up (Satellite internet through a Netgear Wireless G router - WGR614) I have a...
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Consider the following scenario: You have a Windows 7 computer configured with a digital TV tuner. Windows Media Center is configured to use the digital TV tuner. You launch Media Center and then choose Live TV to watch TV. You change the channel. In...
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I just put in a tv tuner card and plugged in the cable
but I need some software for it, it didn't come with software,
witch one is a good one to use.
Thanks,
Frantheman7
I have my XBOX 360 connected via ethernet cable and often times when I attempt to view Live TV or play a recorded show through the XBOX, it crashes the computer.
I have 64 Bit Windows 7, 4 GB RAM, 2.8 GHz quad core, 1 GB XFX Radeon HD 5670, and use the AVerMedia A188 PCIe Pure ATSC TV Tuner...
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An update is available for Windows Media Center in Windows 7. This update fixes a deadlock issue that occurs when you use TV tunner in Windows Media Center to watch TV.
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Fixes an issue in which you receive a "tuner conflict" overlay message when you try to change the channel in Windows Media Center in Windows 7. This issue occurs if you use a hybrid TV tuner to watch live TV from an analog signal.
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Hi guys i just built a new system and had my 1st bsod yesterday :( i think it maybee was my tv card as it was on while i tried to shut down heres my specs
i7 2600k
gigabyte ga-z68a-d3-b3
8 gig ram
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compro tv tuner
I currently have Direct TV with Tivo. I understand that Windows Media Center does not work with Direct TV.
What I really would like to do is give cable / satellite altogether and just record over the air using WMC. Believe it or not, I don't yet have and kind of HD receiver so I have no...
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