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Posted by Avidal on September 11, 2007, 5:30 pm
Please log in for more thread options I have for what is worth, I send my Digital Cable box signal through S-Video
and Digital Audio (channels in the hundreds), and since I dont pay for HD
service, I GeT my HD channels free OTA via coaxial antenna Input(channel # in
the thousands) and I only see one guide, pretty neat; however Media Center
apparently can't recognize two Audio inputs at once. I hear the audio from
the coaxial but not the one from the Digital audio so my DTV channels get
screwed.
"Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" wrote:
> I haven't tried this setup, as I get all my local HD channels via cable.
> However, the OTA HD channels should be handled just like they are in MCE
> 2005. They're added to the Guide in the 2xxx range (IIRC).
>
> As for specific offererings from Dell or other vendors, I can't say. There
> are a number of vendors with Cable Card ready machines. Dell's XPS 410 is
> supposed to be available with the ATI DCT, but I didn't see where to add it
> as an option.
>
> --
> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
> Display\Security
> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
> http://www.dougknox.com
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> > Interesting, any idea how the system handles this set up as far as the
> > program guide etc? Are all tuners viewed as equal? Or does it maintain
> > seperate guides for each tuner allowing you to choose between the two?
> > Very sad to hear about the cable card situation, that is about what I
> > expected to be honest, though the bit about a digital cable ready PC was
> > supprise, is this something one could get from the likes of dell? Perhaps
> > buying prebuilt and modifying would be good enough (I've been building my
> > own strictly since 1996, but oh well..)
> >
> > Carlo
> >
> >> One, you will not be able to go out and buy a CableCard tuner. They are
> >> only sold with pre-built Digital Cable Ready certified PC's. You can add
> >> OTA HDTV tuners to this setup and use them, as well as the cable card
> >> tuner, if I recall correctly.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
> >> Display\Security
> >> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
> >> http://www.dougknox.com
> >> --------------------------------
> >> Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
> >> http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
> >> --------------------------------
> >> Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
> >> Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.
> >>
> >>> Hello, I have what is probably a basic tuner set up question.... I'm
> >>> considering the possibility of switching from my cable company's HD DVR
> >>> to a home built one (assuming I can get my hands on a cable card tuner
> >>> and TimeWaner supports it :P). This is not a "I'm going to do it
> >>> tomorrow" thing as much as a general curiosity type of thing.... Anyway,
> >>> what I wanted to know is how does Media Center deal with having multiple
> >>> different types of tuners installed in the same box... Basically if I
> >>> did this I what I would really want is a single "media server" so to
> >>> speak capable of serving up DVRed TV to all the TV's in my home, using
> >>> x-box 360 (core) systems as kind of a set top box so to speak. So there
> >>> would be a mix of HD/non-HD tv's on the network, as well as a desire to
> >>> be able to switch between HD-Digital cable and free air HD (as despite
> >>> the fact that I have 100 "HD" channels it seems like I might not have
> >>> all the locals... go figure :P).
> >>
> >
>
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