Might need a copy of the digital cable advisor

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Might need a copy of the digital cable advisor

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Post by jachin99 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:39 pm

I've had two unsuccessful attempts at downloading the digital cable advisor on my old machine mentioned in other threads. Does anyone have a standalone version of it that I can download, and run? Thanks.

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Post by Crash2009 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 8:25 pm

I think I saw it in the wiki here

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Post by DavidinCT » Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:44 am

Wow, I wrote that a long time ago... LOL

They are still available from Microsoft...for how long is the question tho..
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Post by jachin99 » Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:59 am

The DCA, and Playready might not be anymore. There is another report of both being unavailable. I only noticed a problem with DCA but I wasn't paying close attention.

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Post by DavidinCT » Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:05 am

jachin99 wrote:The DCA, and Playready might not be anymore. There is another report of both being unavailable. I only noticed a problem with DCA but I wasn't paying close attention.
A lot of us old school WMC users have a copy backed up... If Microsoft fails to provide it, I am sure we could provide them.... Trust me, I have always kept all the tools for WMC incase all fails...

Once we get the site storage up, I hope to make these available to everyone.
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Post by Alan G » Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:27 pm

jachin99 wrote:The DCA, and Playready might not be anymore. There is another report of both being unavailable. I only noticed a problem with DCA but I wasn't paying close attention.
I needed to order a new Win7 product key as I was building a new HTPC late last year and my existing copy of Win7 was an OEM version. I purchased a key from PC Destination here: https://pcdestination.com/product-categ ... windows-7/ They have links to all the ISOs. I used the ISO for the install (I have a couple of Win7 CDs sitting around just in case). Installation went fine and all the necessary files were there for a smooth WMC configuration. On line activation of the license did not work but you just use the phone activation and everything works fine. I've got a couple of clones of the full OS install just in case something happens down the road.

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Post by jachin99 » Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:43 pm

As far as I know, Windows is activated but I'll double check, and thanks DavidCT.

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Post by jachin99 » Mon Feb 12, 2018 7:57 pm

I ran into all kinds of issues with this including windows is not activated because wmc has to be full screen during tv setup. That fixed my problems

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