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Posted by Curious on September 17, 2008, 7:57 pm
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You should be getting the Vista tuner application software for your card
from the ATI Website since the XP software that came with the card will not
run on Vista as you have found.
>I betcha this question has been asked before, but after a bit of Googling I
>couldn't find an answer. So here goes:
>
> I've had Vista Ultimate for about a year and I've figured out two
> different ways to set up Media Center. I wish I could combine the two
> ways.
>
> I have an ATI Radeon video card -- HD2600, and an ATI video capture
> card -- TV Wonder HD650. I can set up Media Center to use the TV Wonder
> HD650 and it works fine -- it'll display all the cable broadcast channels
> (analog and digital) up to 99, and then it switches to OTA for the HD
> channels in my area. When I record programming it comes from the HD650
> tuner.
>
> Or I can set up Media Center to use my set top box as its source of video.
> In this case I must use my Microsoft remote control unit which employs a
> wire and a sensor that sticks to the front of my set top box by the
> infra-red detector. This way I can point the remote in the direction of
> the computer and the computer sends a signal to the set top box to change
> channel or whatever. This way, when I record programming, a composite
> signal comes from the set top box tuner, not the HD650 tuner.
>
> The problem is that I don't like using the Microsoft remote. The response
> time is slow and the Microsoft remote doesn't have enough buttons to make
> the set top box (a DVR) do everything it's capable of doing. So I have
> disconnected the Microsoft wire and pulled the sensor off the front of my
> set top box and I don't use the Microsoft remote. I just use the ATI
> tuner directly.
>
> But...sometimes I want to record something on my hard drive that's already
> been recorded by the DVR. Now I'm out of luck, because Media Center
> doesn't see programming that comes from the set top box -- it sees only
> programming that comes from the ATI card due to the way I've set up Media
> Center.
>
> The ATI software that came with the video capture card accommodates my
> needs nicely in XP -- I can switch between set top box input or video
> capture card tuner input or even S-Video input. But the ATI software
> won't install in Vista. I'm stuck with just Media Center software in
> Vista.
>
> So now my question: Is there a way to switch between inputs using Media
> Center as there is with the ATI software? Can I tell Media Center that I
> want to use the set top box as a source without having to completely
> re-install the remote control unit? Can I just point Media Center away
> from the ATI tuner to external set top box input (S-Video or composite)
> without doing a total re-install of the remote control hardware?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Bill Anderson
>
> I am the Mighty Favog
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