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Discussions on WindowsForum.com cover set-top box integration with Windows Media Center, including IR blaster configuration, channel tuning limits, and input source setup. Users troubleshoot issues like remote control learning failures, inability to access channels above 158, and the inability to use both antenna and composite video inputs simultaneously. A thread about Valve's Fremont device, a TV-focused SteamOS box tested with Windows 11 Pro, also appears. Another user inquires about a claimed Windows-branded set-top box for smart TVs, seeking verification and information. These threads reflect common challenges and questions around using set-top boxes with Windows-based media center PCs.
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    Valve Fremont: TV-first SteamOS Box with Hawk Point 2 & RX 7600

    Valve’s long-rumoured set-top box, codenamed Fremont, has reappeared in public testing data — this time in Geekbench — and the leaked entry paints a picture of a TV-focused SteamOS device in active development that, for now, was tested running Windows 11 Pro rather than a finished SteamOS image...
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    windows set tv box

    Has anyone heard of a set box tv by Windows? I had never heard of a set tv box until someone was trying to get my husband to buy one and said it was a windows box for smart tv's. I cannot find any features or information about this set tv box. Does anyone know anything about something like this...
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    windows set tv box

    Has anyone heard of a set box tv by Windows? I had never heard of a set tv box until someone was trying to get my husband to buy one and said it was a windows box for smart tv's. I cannot find any features or information about this set tv box. Does anyone know anything about something like this...
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    Windows 7 Microsoft - PLEASE fix this AWFUL Multimedia experience

    Note to Microsoft Developers Why on Earth do you have to make such a dogs dinner of essentially a decent application. I'm talking about the Windows Media Center. Most TV tuner cards sold these days have a Composite Video input as well as Antenna / cable input. However when you set up the...
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    • camcorder composite input feedback input sources integration media center microsoft multimedia regional guides remote set-top box software design software features software issues testing tv tuner user experience user interface video sender windows
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 New to Windows 7

    Hello, I installed Windows 7 last night. Everything is pretty astounishing, Windows is snappy, gets to the point even with my aging computer. However, I'm having a few problems: It's my TV computer, and it's connected to it with a S-video cable on my Nvidia GeForce5 FX5200 that has 128 megs...
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    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows Vista Configuring IR Blaster

    My Vista Media Centre has worked fine for about a year, -now suddenly the Windows Media Centre Remote doesn't work the TV. I can see the IR blaster flashing infront of the cable (Virgin) set-top-box, but it doesn't change the channels on the set top box. Somehow it has 'forgotten' the set-top...
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    • blaster channel switching infrared learning issue media center remote remote signal set-top box troubleshooting windows vista
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows Vista Media Center and Cable TV--accessing channels over 158?

    I have land-line cable via Mediacom and a set-top box that controls a TV downstairs. It is also connected to a computer upstairs, and I've had no problems watching cable TV on the computer. Unfortunately, our cable service has channels about 158--the maximum allowed channel number to add...
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    • cable channel limit computer setup digital cable media center mediacom set-top box streaming tech support workaround
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support