I'm planning on setting up a HTPC using Windows Media Center (am buying a new machine) and still have some technical questions... (don't have the machine or WMC to test things myself)

If I have two tuners on my machine, one that is freeview only and the other having a pay-channel decoder card,...

Hello. I haven't been on this website in such a long time. :|
I'm trying to build my first HTPC. It's running Windows XP Media Center 2005. I would like to add an (almost) HD tuner, but I don't know if this card will work.

Is this card compatible with Media Center?

I would like to be able to...

Hi all,

I have a Sabrent PCI Hybrid TV Card (Digital ATSC TV/QAM/NTSC/FM Model TV-PCIDG) installed and am running W7 Ultimate. The card came with Blaze Video. I've installed about 20 times, changed slots, downloaded latest W7 drivers and still have this problem: Blaze Video (and even MediaPortal)...

Time Warner Cable recently dropped our local NBC station (WXII12) because of contract disputes. We are in NC, but since mid-July, we've had WBRE in Pennsylvania! Now, they have the local NBC station broadcasting again, however, the Guide still shows the PA station with shows in different time...

I gave my sister my old HTPC and the tv playback is choppy. It is particularly bad on HD channels. It's QAM cable. It's using 2 tuners. Both diamond 750 tuners one USB and one PCIe. I've never used the USB version before but have had good success with the PCIe version. It seems that the USB is...

I though about getting a second AverMedia AVerTVHD Duet tuner card but noticed they are no longer listed on their website. I could not even directly access the manual. But could get to it by going through the driver download screen. IOW the company has removed most traces of this tuner card. And...

I Had windows vista, upgraded to windows 7. after i opened the media center the first message shown said that I needed a better video card or drivers. after i tried to search for channels, it said that no tv tv tuner was found.

WHAT TO DO????

HP media center PC m7060n
year 2005. by the way over...

Hello, i have a genpix skywalker tuner and use dvbdream/link/server/guidetool with WMC. My guide worked perfect after setting this all up about a month ago but now i get no data on 95% of the channels. certain ch's like CNN and A&E are getting the full two week guide. I've tried manually...

I would like to upgrade my HTPC which currently has a dual DVBT PCIe tuner (Terratec) to 4 tuners. I looks like I have 2 options:

1. I could add a second dual tuner but it would have to be a regular PCI card as there are no further PCIe slots available, this is the cheapest option.
2. I could...

I have a dvb-t usb tuner installed, working ok and getting a decent number of channels. If i want to add a 2nd usb tuner what is the correct way of setting it up in media center?
Am i just 'adding' the 2nd tuner and scanning for channels on that or do i have to set both of them as if they are both...

I've built and used my HTPC for almost a year now, and I've had nothing but great experiences with it aside from one little thing: I get no/very little reception on channels 6.1 and 6.2, however 6.2 comes in like a champ. Moreover, I can view these channels at nearly any time, however I cannot DVR...

Hello!

We currently have freeview channels via a Virgin Media box (UK), and I'd like to replace that with a TV tuner card. Bugger is, I don't know which one to get!

I had thought I would get a TBS 6280 Dual Freeview HD Low-profile PCIe TV Tuner Card DVB-T2, however I think that needs an analogue...

Hi all,

On my HTPC I have a Anysee E30 Combo (DVB-C) connected. I use Windows 7's Windows Media Center. If I use Anysee TC-Viewer, it indicates that the signal is 52%. As a result, I cannot receive all the channels on Windows Media Center.

Before I came to the conclusion that the signal could be...

Hello! Any suggestions welcome, this is so annoying!

Recently my Hauppaug WinTV duet USB tuner has started behaving strangely. It has been working perfectly on my laptop with windows 7 media centre for months. The laptop is used for anything else except for media center so I haven’t installed...

Background:
I built my first dual tuner DVR 5 years ago using 2 Hauppague 1800 tuners. It worked great for a few years and then all of a sudden I could not watch live tv on 2.1, 4.1 or 13.1 (major network channels) However, I could record the channel, and then watch it from the recorded shows. Not...

I know the Colossus is, strictly speaking, not a tuner, but I think I'm posting in the right place. I can post elsewhere if deemed appropriate.

I'm just looking for some feedback on those using Colossus with MC7:
Do you like it?
Do you need DVB Link software to make it work with MC7?
Are the...

I have been recording over-the-air TV programs on WMC 7 without problems. All of a sudden last night, around 10 PM, I lost the signal for KABC-7, our local ABC affiliate in Los Angeles. All of the other channels seem to come in fine. I re-did the TV signal setup and re-scanned for channels, but it...

Does anyone know if it is possible to have IP control on the H25 boxes? I just got setup today and they gave me H25 boxes which do not have ethernet ports. I am also checking out their H34 box but so far I am really hating the entire interface. Not very pretty and overly complicated where as Media...

I've been lurking in this site for a long time, almost able to find answers to my questions every time but I need some help here.

My issue is I have 2 hauppauge 1600 cards. With pnear's hack I can receive only one atsc channel through media center. When I use win-tv I can receive both (we only...

What are my options on recording HD directv? What internal tv cards are available? Please dont tell me anything about Standard Definition, I am so done with it.

I finally broke down and bought a HDHR Prime (on woot's sale). I have WOW coming out to do a cablecard install tomorrow. Any guidance on how to make this go smooth and not confuse the tech?

Ok, long time reader first time poster...
I'm currently trying to decide on what to do, I currently have a TiVo Elite or XL4 now, and want to switch back to either a Ceton Setup or a HDHomerun setup.
I actually just bought a 3-Tuner Prime off of Woot the other day to play around with. But I'm...

I know this is probably a dumb question, but I'm going to ask it anyway.

I have a SiliconDust HD HomeRun Prime tuner. It works great on my HTPC. I tried to install the HD HomeRun software/driver on my laptop this weekend, and I was only able to watch non-copy-protected shows on the laptop's...

Anybody know about new tuner/hardware goodies on the horizon? I know we have the Q and echo to eagerly await. Just curious if anyone has heard anything from Hauppauge, SiliconDust or a new comer. Seems like there was a flurry of new stuff to get excited about 2010/2011, not much since?

Hi Guys

Pick myself up one of these cards, running the lastest drivers all seem ok but get random black screens. does not matter what i'm doing could be watching tv, streaming an mkv ot blu-ray from my home server, and the screen will just go black, the HD seems to still being accessed and...

I'm going back and forth over what tuner to purchase for a new media center. The AVerMedia AVerTVHD Duet is about half the price of the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 . I really just want OTA, so I don't care about analog and certainly FM. What does the community think?

Also, I've never set up a...

I have a Hauppauge tuner. I have a single antenna Antennas Direct ClearStream 1 mounted on 5 foot mast in my backyard. Yeah mounting an antenna on the roof might produce better results then again it might not.

I chose the mast in my backyard because it was already there supporting a DTV dish that...

I have a family member who's cable co is now encrypting channels, rendering the HDHomerun useless for them.

they have one of those dual-core atom mini-pc's; i can't remember exactly which one.

anyhow, which tuner would be better for a low-power PC? the infinitv USB or HDHomerun Prime?

Does anyone has any experience with DVB-C tuners using DVBlink? And how is the CI support?

i replaced my mobo to get a higher memory capacity; now two HVR-1600's stopped working. They show up in device manager.

when i try to tune a channel, i get the 'viewing conflict'; no tuner available to satisfy this request.

i re-installed drivers from hauppauge's website, still no luck.

no...

Some of you may have read the posts I made in the the Ceton thread over in the AVS forum or the old school greenbutton about issues recording my local clearqam channels. A quick recap, I have a Infinitv4 and whenever I viewed or recorded what are clearqam channels in my lineup in media center the...

For month i been stuck on the Ceton card.. Now i am not sure I came across the HDHomeRun DUAL - High Definition Digital TV Tuner (Network Attached) HDHR3-US (Black) by SiliconDust for 99.00 bucks. Its not a matter of price. i will try to explain what on my mind see if some one can help.
Have 3...

Hello,

I purchased a Ceton InfiniTV 4 at launch and it has been great.

I just moved into a new house an the signal is awful.

TimeWarner cable put in this amp:

and my main drop was boosted to -13dBmV, I was having a lot of issues with my tuner.

At my previous place I had purchased this amp:...

Since I have had this system, I get the occasional Subscription Required or Service not available message when changing channels. If I keep changing the channel and come back, it goes away. Or sometimes it goes away if I just let it sit for a few seconds.

Sometimes I get them for a split second...

Apologies for the long post, I just want to get everything out there before I get asked a bunch of questions. I have a PCI-express ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner, Windows 7 x64. My computer is a Falcon NW Mach V, but I installed the card myself (NOT OEM) I updated the card's firmware when I got...

Hi new here but a long time user of WMC.

Dual pci tuner in PC (asus) then added a Avermedia homefree 200 dual network tuner. Now it will not use the asus tuners for viewing, but records using them fine. In other words if another PC is using either of the network tuners and I select live tv on WMC...

My wife has an HTPC from HP and has had it for a while. it came with a Hauppauge digital/analog tuner. We have a Ceton PCIe on order. I have alot of questions about what I'll need to do for setup.

Will we be able to use all 6 tuners? (4 from the Ceton and 2 from the Hauppauge)

What kind of...

Did something stupid today, and had FIOS installed without reading up on TGB beforehand. Had two ATI DCTs in a computer and it was working fine with Comcast, but it wont tune encrypted channels to save its life which as far as I can tell means Simulcrypt is being used in this area (multiple...

Hi all, I'm new to the forum here, but have been a huge user/fan of MC for a long time.

I like a lot of users I'm sure, run media centre as a hobby, but also because it integrates everything from a central server and most of the time works great. My biggest pressure is keeping the wife and kids...

Hi all,
I'm looking to pick up a DVB-S/S2 tuner to do some playing with. At this point, I have no interest in conditional access stuff - I'm just looking for FTA. Only need one tuner, but would prefer a USB unit so I can use it with my laptop. Tuner should support WMC and ideally allow me to save...

I've often toyed with the idea of connecting an external, OTA antenna to one or two of my tuners so that I can get better quality HDTV for the local channels (less compression). Currently, I have a Ceton InfiniTV4, a Hauppauge HVR-2250 (dual hybrid) and an Asus WinTV NXP FM1236/F (basically just a...

My cable company doesn't mark anything copy protected as far as I'm aware. My cablecards aren't even paired.

I noticed doomsday preppers on NatGeo said that it was copy protected when I went to watch it. I was able to watch it but when I first clicked on it, I saw a small i with copy protected...

I can't find it! Have done fresh install post buying a SSD and now my tbs8921 dvds can't find BBC1hd, it did before!

What can I do?

So I've been using the Hauppuage Colossus for a few weeks now & my HD channels are great. I can convert wtv to mkv by using ffmpeg using the following command:

c:\video\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe -i %_WTV% -vcodec copy -acodec copy -async 1 -ss 10 -absf aac_adtstoasc -f matroska %_mkv%

Problem is when I...

as the title say,i wanted to use this usb pen for record what interest me but media center doesn't recognize it and so it can't find any channel

i've installed the driver and blaze dtv 6.0 that it was in the cd with the usb stick but nothing work

what i do now?

I have a Cable Card tuner and a question about the premium channels and DRM

If I subscribe to HBO to watch something, record a bunch of stuff and then cancel my subscription, will i lose my recordings due to not having the channel in my subscription package anymore?

Which TV tuner should I get? Finally upgraded computers. I had a Windows XP with an Linksys media center extender. Loved using it as my DVR. My new Windows 7 computer did not come with a TV tuner. Recommendations?

I am hard wired to an xbox360 as an extender this time. Linksys wmce extender not...

Hello,

I got this card years ago (Dec of 07) to record some VHS tapes to DVD, I could have gotten much cheaper card but I wanted to make my own OTA DVR...well fast forward to a January and my PC is pulling double duty as a DVR.

Now I have been using this as a single tuner card but I was...

Been trying to find a fix, but not got this sorted.
I have 2 tbs tuner cards, 4 * dvb-s2 and 4 * dvb-t2.
I am however experiencing the tuner conflict message, but nothing was being viewed or recorded when i selected the channel. It says to select a tuner to disable, but none are listed. The only...

i am upgrading a dell 4600 that has plenty of PCI slots available - but pre-dates PCI-e technology - that i want to use for internal tuner.

Infinitv only has PCI-e (i believe anyway). is there a cable card internal PCI tuner out there i can buy?

thanks in advance...

OK who's going to be first? i just bought a Nova-S2 off ebay for £40 or i'd have a go myself!!
One of the tuners died on my TBS6981 so i'm thinking German Engineering is the way forward?!?!?!??!

I have two HTPC's one running two ATI DCT's and another running one.

I had held off buying the most recent two after it was announced a few years back that Verizon was going to be going to upgrading to simulcrupt in some of it's makets and the tuners would no longer work.

Well this never came to...

I just ordered a Verizon fios cable card and Hauppauge WinTv Cable Card Tuner (USB) to use with wmc7. I looked everywhere and even asked the same question on Verizon forums and haven't received a reply.

The question I have is, will I need a tuner adapter as well?

Another question I have is, can...

I just started getting Low Bit Rate & Service is unavailable errors in MCE.
My setup:
core i7 2600K @4410MHz
8gb Ram
Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1600 NTSC/ATSC/QAM Combo.
Windows 7 Professional SP1 x64

My provider is Cablevision, just basic (no box, no card), on the NTSC channel, & an OTA antenna on the...

I have a Pinnacle dual sat pro twin dvb-s tuner that i've just got hold of, previously i had 1 (then 2) Compro s350 dvb-s cards.

The 2 Compro's work fine together and the Pinnacle also works fine on its own. I was wondering the best way to set up both the Pinnacle and either 1 or both of the...

I have an application that sends a network broadcast, and I couldn't figure out why it stopped working. In my troubleshooting, I unplugged my USB Ceton card and found that it was fixed. It appears that on my USB Ceton Media Center, for the broadcast and muticast addresses, the Ceton is lower than...

I couldn't find a topic on this with search, so I apologize if this has been discussed before.
I recently pulled the trigger on a HDHRPrime, because it was on sale for 170. I was waiting for the price to fall on the Ceton, but I couldn't pass on the HDHR. While 3 tuners will be good to get me...

I have had a TBS 6981 dual tuner for a while, bought the dvb-t2 card and ended up sending that back with tearing issues on HD.
Anyway this was the start of A painful journey, I have had a nightmare since and formatting doesn't fix my issues ...
Anyway before I ramble on any more I built a new PC...

I was a frequent visitor to this forum when I set up my first HTPC with 2 CC DCT's (ATI Digital TV Wonder) in 2008. Well, it works, but, is in its final stages of life... I'm done with bargaining and have moved onto acceptance!... I never got the set up to work perfectly (only one of the two DMA...

I have a ceton infinitv 4 pci card. Everything seems to work fine but randomly the video playback stops and 1 of 2 messages will show. Either no tuner detected to support current activity or you must have the proper subscription to view this content... Those might not be exact quotes. If I remember...

Hi all,
I previously thought we had eradicated all the old TA firmwares which only supported 2 tuners, however, I worked with a customer last weekend whose TA was still on the old firmware. After reaching out to the MSO, they updated. At this point, I am not aware of any MSOs running old firmware...

Using a Ceton InfiniTV4 fed from Comcast Digital HD service in Albuquerque for the last six months or so and have been pleased with the result. Yesterday, I noted that I could not receive channels 255 and 256 via the Ceton. They work fine on from Comcast's cable box on the TV in the other room....

Hi,

I am having an awful time trying to fix this.
I have 2 x Hauppauge WinTV HD S2 cards installed, full signal strength, ran the setup in Win7MC (New build Win7x64).
Replaced the ITV1 with ITV1HD feed, works fine.

Channel 5 refusing to play with message in Media Center: Service is Unavailable -...

Just wondering if any fellow freeview Brit users could please confirm how many days guide data they have for BBC 1 and 2? I have been limited to 7 days for months (used to be 14) but don't know if it's my system.

Ta

I am looking to record either 2 over the air HD signals or cable hd at the same time on my low end HTPC that I think would do better with hardware decoding. I have searched and found the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 suggested but are there any other suggestions. I actually have a perfectly good...

I've seen elsewhere that Media Centre can be set up with 1 dual DVB-T tuner and 1 x dual DVB-T2 tuner, but I was wondering if it then sensibly schedules a mixture of HD and SD programmes using the correct tuners? I currently have 2 x dual DVB-T tuners and would like to upgrade to receive HD without...

Been trolling for a while, but time to make my first post!

I've been running with this guy ( ) for a while (Ion, Atom 330 , currently 2gb RAM, upgrading to 4 soon). I've finally decided to buy an actual CableCARD tuner and start watching TV through the media PC. I prefer to go with a USB device...

I have not been in the loop for a while (ever since the old Green Button shutdown), but I am glad we have something useful back.

My questions is, are there any good solutions for recording HD from a settop box such as Directtv? Looking to update my Vista Media center with new hardware and...

Can you please recommend a DVB-T tuner that has mpeg-4 hardware encoding.
I currently use a Hauppauge 4000 for both DVB-T and DVB-S but the change time between mpeg-2 and mpeg-4 channels is not satisfactory.
Hauppauge have a newer 4400 which is pci-express - does anyone use this for mpeg-4...

After many many months of successful TV recording and live TV viewing Media Center and my Hauppauge WinTv-HVR-1950 running in Parallels (fully updated Windows 7) and plugged directly into the USB 2 port on the back of my iMac 11,1 have decided to give me trouble. Other than Windows 7 updates...

Good Morning Everyone,

Just installed my new HTPC (self-built). I use a combination of Ceton 4 Tuner (pci-e), Hauppage 2250 & Homerun HD (ethernet). The tuner priority for all channels is:

2250 (QAM only channels) -> Ceton -> Homerun HD.

However, when an extender connects, it's pulling the...

Hello,

I hope someone can help. I installed 2x Nova-t cards and a HD S2 card into an already existing Media Centre (all 3 cards pci). When going into TV Setup in MC I got the message Tuner Not Found . Id installed the latest drivers from the Hauppauge site.

I figured it wouldnt take long to do...

First, I have been a MCE user for about 4 years, and love it. With a little help from XBMC, Boxee and Netflix (with a little torrenting here and there), I cut the cable 4 years ago as well.

I am moving to a new home, and have sketched up my new setup. I now have all the components and can't wait...

I currently have my Silicondust HDHR and Hauppauge HVR-2250 working quite nicely in my system.

I am getting an Hauppauge DCR-2650 for Christmas. My question is, how do I add the 2650 without having to re-do the settings on my other tuners (which was a PITA!)

Is it possible?

I ran into a problem today and was wondering if someone had a clue.
I have a ceton pci-e card and a hd homerun(network connected). I have the HD Homerun as the priority tuners for network television. Today I disconnected the coax cable for the HD Homerun by accident. All of my local network...

Hello,

I am just starting to learn about the HTPC and had a question on using USB tuner(Hauppauge DCR-2650, Ceton IFINITV4) with SDV.

According to the diagrams from my cable provider, USB connection from Tuning Adapter goes into the USB port on the device (Hauppauge DCR-2650, Ceton IFINITV4)....

Hello all I was receiving the following error when trying to view Live TV after rebooting, after awhile it would eventually work but sometimes took multiple reboots. I found the following fix on another board, can't remember where to give the user credit but it solved my issue instantly, hope this...

According to the Hauppauge website the WMC support for the HD-PVR is still in beta. Any reason for this? Is support for the HD-PVR likely to ever be improved, such as by supporting multiple HD-PVRs.

Hello everyone,

I've been happily using an ATI DCT on Windows 7 for a few years now. This is the second media center PC I've built and the first one worked fine, too. One day, this one began giving a weak signal message after 7 seconds of playback. We've had the cable company in, who...

mine has gone, all 3 tuners? frequency change??

I previously set up my computer with a WinTV USB Tuner and since it's straight CATV there was a lot of custom digital channel additions (e.g., 5.1, 3.1, etc.). Is there a file in WMC that I can manually add the channels to? I have to set up a new computer and hate the thought of going through the...

If you had 2 tuners with different providers say a feed from starchoice and one from dish network, Is there a way to show them in the guide of media center? And have media center change the channel of the correct box?

So far I have installed the guide tool but it pulls data from media center I...

I've been having an issue lately with my Media Center recordings. On what seems to only be extended length recordings (greater than 1 hour); when I play the recording I'm not able to seek within the recording and sooner or later playback of the video terminates and I receive a 'Video Error' message...

Hi

Just wondered whether anyone has been brave enough to download the update below. I've got a persistent issue with the loss of a Blackgold HD tuner that I'm hoping this will cure

Oli

Nice to see this site up. I was a long-time member of legacy GB. Haven't had much need for 7MC in the last year or so as we have started using U-Verse and Mediaroom 2.0. Thinking about making switch back to Time Warner Cable (better picture quality, Wideband internet). Saw some posts in here...

I recently updated my video card driver (Nvidia Geforce GTX 465), directx, as well as a few unrelated programs. A few days later I realized my scheduled recordings in WMC were missing the picture only the sound could be heard. I then went to watch live tv and again could see no picture. I then...

I just bought a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250. It is supposed to have a built in splitter which I assume can connect one antenna / cable to both channels. But I do not see how to configure the splitter. How do I do this?

Looks like this could be a nice Freeview HD card, hopefully it will be a bit cheaper than the BlackGold one.

It's a shame that it's a full height card though........

Has anyone had issues tuning TV on your Xbox? I can only get a minute or so before video freezes and eventually i get a network error. I'm wired in so makes no sense. I can immediately go and stream a video and plays perfectly, then try to tune live tv but now I get a black screen with maybe some...

Hi all,

My HTPC all of a sudden started having TV reception issues a couple of weeks ago and has gradually gotten worse to the point where I can no longer watch/record anything. So I thought I would join up to the no. 1 MCE community for some help :)

Its a windows x64 build with a blackgold and a...

I've seen them advertised and was wondering if anyone has had a positive experience with them?

I finally broke down and bought a second HD tuner for my WMC. With my one tuner I had all green bars on the meter, but with two tuners I'm getting all red bars on one and green on the other. I have two Diamond ATI USB 750 tuners. The one worked so well that I decided to buy another. I had to go...

I should have done more research before buying two Hauppauge HVR-2250s. I thought they were a good deal after reading the reviews - two analog tuners, two ATSC tuners, two ClearQAM tuners, able to record ClearQAM and ATSC at the same time, etc. Only if I had read the Hauppauge website. The...

I'm in SoCal and installed a CableCARD and Tuning Adapter with my HDHR-Prime. I get most OTA HD channels, but many HD (and even low res ) channes don't play, giving a Subscription Required message. My Card looks good. Status shows:

Card Authentication
success

Card OOB Lock
success

Card...

I am a long time gbpvr/nextpvr user. I recently got a DCR-2650 and due to the monsters at Time Warner Cable, I have moved to WMC since everything is copy flagged.
My DVR system has been running steady and stable for about 2 years with a Hauppauge HVR-1800. It seems not to play nice with the DCR...

I just picked up a refurbished AverTV Express Mini and I'm having trouble tuning clearqam hd channels. The problem varies from A/V sync to breakup and loss of signal altogether. I would suspect signal problems, however I have other tuners working just fine off of the same splitter. I'm going to try...

About a week ago I received my new DCR-2650 to replace my ATI DCT. The tuner immediately worked correctly after moving over the cablecard. The only issue is that after about 20 minutes the tuner disconnects from USB and media center resorts to No Tuners Found . After going through several cablecard...

just replaced my router and apparently drm is based off your ip address when you network the tuner. anyone know how to reset drm without having to go back and setup the tuner again.

I am using the TBS6921 DVB-S2 card with Media Center under Windows 7

I cannot receive the BBC HD channel - Media Center just says No Signal Received when I select channel 108 (BBC HD)

I can get ITV1 HD and Channel 4 HD fine but not BBC HD.

Please help!

Thanks for the site, and thanks for sharing!

I've set up my media center PC with 4 Hauppauge Colossus to work my DISH NETWORK boxes.
(Thanks to DVBlink!)

Anyway - having trouble making sense of the guide? Any guidance on setting up the guide? it shows 847 available channels, but there are dups...

Is there any plugins out there that would function like Comcast's push button for HD feed? With all the channels available it takes to long to find each time :)

I am tired of searching the internet. It's been 3 days and I have not been able to find a good answer. I have an hauppage 1650 tuner with an ntsc feed coming from the cable company. Is there a way to share that tuner over the network to my tv in the bedroom.

Right now, I am using media portal...

With utterly brilliant timing, as my local transmitter finally, finally went all digital yesterday, I seem to have had a hardware failure on my Peak Dual DVB-T tuner. Tuner 1 is not receiving any signal at all, whilst Tuner 2 is working fine and dandy. I can reproduce this with ease by fiddling...

I am in Ontario, subscriber to Cogeco, recently upgraded to digital...

My television is able to recieve the clear qam channels from Cogeco - from the specs for the tv it has the following tuners NTSC-M, ATSC, 64 & 256 QAM

AFter trying to setup the DTA that cogeco provided, the ir blasters with...

I'm just getting round to configuring my black gold 3540 with twin dvb-s and dvb-t tuners. I've only really used a single dvb-s tuner before so this with 4 tuners is a big improvement.
I'm just scanning at the moment and wondering how i set up all the channels i will find, i will have a bunch of...

My mailman brought me a surprise this morning - the Hauppauge DCR-2650 I ordered to do some testing with. I just tossed a CableCARD in it and got it paired. Things seem to work when I'm using the CableCARD's channel map - as soon as I plug in the TA though, all tuning breaks, even non-switched...

So I get a voicemail from TWC this week letting me know that there will be an update to their boxes. Start getting SDV errors tuning channels. Thought it was a major problem, updated my ceton installer tonight and the latest beta FW installed and ran the channel setup after. noticed in the web diag...

Howdy All,

I just reinstalled Windows 7 and I 'believe' that my center channel audio worked before the reinstall.

My setup:

HTPC w/ Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Video:ATI 5570
Tuner: Hauppauge 2250 dual tuner
Codec Pack: Sharky007(32 and 64 bit packages
HDMI to AVR

Issue:
I don't get center...

Does anyone know if the deadline to require cable companies to allow self-install has been extended? I just got done chatting w/ customer service from Brighthouse and they still require a $39 service visit to install a cable card. I even confirmed in the chat that they allow the self-install for...

Hi all i've just bought a BlackGold BGT3540 on Ebay, bit of a gamble as it was sold as faulty as the seller can only get one dvb-s tuner to show up in his Windows 7 64bit.
Has anyone got this card or ever had this model and experienced missing tuners? I'm trying to research the problem before it...

Hi,

Firtly, thanks for creating this site, it's a welcome addition. To those that say it fragments the community I say 1) get out more 2) vote with your feet and that's what I did when I moved to this forum!

Now on to my quesiton if that's OK :) . Has anyone been using the Kworld Dual 499-T2 usb...

My 7MC just started freezing to a black screen when playing live or recorded TV, requiring a reset to start using again. I'm able to play music and do other things for hours but TV consistently freezes within minutes. I've got a Geforce GT 430 and a Ceton tuner (also using a tuning adapter), which...

Anyone try these tuners? Thinking about picking up a few unless there is a cheaper/better per tuner option for ClearQAM.

What is causing Corrupt Recordings? I keep missing random recordings. The recordings that are corrupt will show no thumbnail. When you play it you get either nothing happens at all, or it pops up with the error:

Corrupt Recording The recorded program is corrupt and cannot be played. Delete it to...

I am getting an error stating my computer is not cable card ready. I know this bios restriction was removed with the update to these tuners. I have the firmware on the tuners, what else do I need to do? Maybe update the computer somehow?

Just got my TBS6981 and it seems to break up/pixelate/audio stutter on the HD channels like channel 4.
I tried it with an Ati 5450 and a nvidia 8800gt but seems to do it with both cards
has anyone encountered this problem?
Also when scanning for channels it picked up channel 4 HD but BBC HD was in...

Hi, and congrats on re-inventing this site. Glad it's here!

I am trying to figure out whether it's possible for me to 'network' the (UK freeview HD) tv tuner card in my Windows 7 PC in the office, so I can use a 'client' laptop / nettop to view live-ish tv / schedule / browse EPG / record on the...

Hello All,

I have been having some problems setting up the IR Blaster in my Hauppauge 2250 TV tuner. I am attempting to receive satellite with my BellTV (Canadian sat. provider) 4100 receiver. I am able to receive the output of the STB when I manually tune to the S-Video input of the tuner but I...

A tech here says the analog (basic cable) channels are also being sent in digital but the InfinTV4 doesn't see them. He could not answer if it was on different channels or offer any further assistance. I am trying to only have to use my Ceton card. When I add my WinTV tuner it adds duplicate low...

I have Comcast and my Cablecard went bad so I needed to replace it. They demanded a tech come to my home but I refused to pay a fee saying Their equipment went bad. Well after several cards I decided to try something new as they could not be recognized, so i reran Digital Cable Advisor and IT...

So my Ceton card thinks it is an analog tuner (well, really the guide for my cable company thinks the analog channels are digital) so I need to de-select the four Ceton tuners from my analog channels.

I can do this in Media Center by going to Settings > TV > Guide > Edit Channels and then...

Hey there,

I was referred by Wolf from tomshardware to come to this thread, and it looks exactly like what I'll need.

He already answered a few questions for me, but my biggest question is regarding how the shows are over the network.

I am running win7, my girlfriend vista. Both have WMC...

Well prices for the HD-PVR are looking much better down here in NZ finally. I was wondering if Hauppauge media center support for the HD-PVR has got to the point where it's broadly reliable? Is there any native Media Center support for Colossus at the moment? Anyone used a HDFury2 with HD-PRV? Our...

Any one know if the haupauge colussus tuner will work on Shaw in Canada? (guess says shaw kinda says it in Canada but anyways) :roll:

Quick question, I have a hauppauge s2 card currently and wish to add a DVb-t card to get some additional irish terrestrial stations (rte1, network2, tg4). I spent ages getting my epg linup the way it is (and Ive never been able to get my activated guide tool to restore a lineup sucessfully). So, if...

I'm sure someone was asking about one of these on here the other day or was it on the m$ site?? dunno.
Thought i'd post this up as i rained on the blackgold parade the other day £75 BARGAIN!!!
Gets good write-ups and dvb-s2 works in WMC, meethinks i might have to purchase one!!!!

Why would I want a tuner card, like the ceton, and have it tied to one machine when I could buy the SiliconDust HDHomerun (or 2). It seems to me that I could purchase the Homerun(s) would allow me to keep them in a closet without having to use a computer as a video server, per se. I guess...

Looks like the market for CableCard tuners is heating up, once again.

New enterant, Hauppauge WinTV-DCR-2650 a collaboration between Silicon Dust and Hauppauge to produce an external (USB) dual tuner CableCard device.

Pre order price is $129 +$10 shipping + Tax in NY

I imagine that once it...

Charter Cable - South-West Michigan - Motorola CC's, Motorola TA's (SDV Active), Copy-Free on ALL Channels Except Teen-Nick (Ch 107-- donno why that's the only channel flagged copy-once).

Hi,

anyone know how to get the latest transponder details applied on a dreambox? I tried to research this a couple of weeks back, but didn't manage to get very far with it, so if anyone has any experience of it, that would be great!

Thanks
Tony

Does anyone know if this can be used in 7MC just as the HDHomerun does?

There were similar posts on the old green button, but not only did I never find a solution, but my dilemma has changed slightly.
Here we go.

I have a dual dvb-t card, and dvb-s card and a dvb-s2 card. I couldn't get WMC to pick up dvb-s2 channels since getting that card, last night I did a clean...