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analogue tv signals Bill Greene 12-19-2005
`--> Re: analogue tv signals Richard Wagstaf...12-20-2005
Posted by Bill Greene on December 19, 2005, 8:16 am
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 Just bought my daughter a packard bell machine with media center and
tuner and discovered it wont work. pcworld say it's because we have an
analogue signal (in ireland) and microsoft had promised an upgrade for
september, then october to work with these signals but nothing has
materialised yet. what to do for xmas? bin it and buy a proper tele???

Posted by Jaime on December 19, 2005, 9:10 am
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 Well, I'm not in Ireland, so I don't know about the various cable services,
but I don't know what an analog signal has do with it. Here in the U.S., an
analog signal is the easiest and cleanest way to hook up and use an MCE
machine. With analog cable, you just plug the coax right into the PC and let
the tuner card find the channels.

With digital or satellite, you have a set-top box that still has to do the
"tuning", then it sends the signal (via s-video/composite/whatever) to the
PC, so you have to have an IR emitter stuck to the front of your cable box
so when you tell the PC to change channels, it can tell the box to change
channels.

Could it be something about the particular way the local cable signal is
sent?
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida

> Just bought my daughter a packard bell machine with media center and tuner
> and discovered it wont work. pcworld say it's because we have an analogue
> signal (in ireland) and microsoft had promised an upgrade for september,
> then october to work with these signals but nothing has materialised yet.
> what to do for xmas? bin it and buy a proper tele???



Posted by Richard Wagstaff on December 20, 2005, 1:04 am
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When you say "it wont work" what exactly is the problem? Is it just the TV
element that isn't working - if so, what is the error message you get?

Richard


> Just bought my daughter a packard bell machine with media center and tuner
> and discovered it wont work. pcworld say it's because we have an analogue
> signal (in ireland) and microsoft had promised an upgrade for september,
> then october to work with these signals but nothing has materialised yet.
> what to do for xmas? bin it and buy a proper tele???



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