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TGB.tv donations drive !

Last post by Kevin Chalet « Tue Aug 27, 2024 3:39 pm
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by holidayboy » Tue Nov 07, 2023 8:47 am » in Forum Operations & Feedback

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Hi all,

Just a quick post to see if any of our members are willing / able to make a small donation to help cover our running costs?

I completely understand that times are hard for a lot of folks and many people are unable to offer any financial support.

Please don't feel pressured into donating...

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Who do I PM to add UDID for iOS My Media Center Ceton app? I was able to download but it will not install. If I can get working I will donate.

See

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Hauppauge DCR-2650 Dual CableCard Tuner - Owner's Thread

Last post by TechSavvy « Sun Sep 17, 2017 8:21 pm
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by soccerdad » Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:57 am
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I see lots of posts on the Ceton cards and see a prime user's thread but not much on the DCR-2650.

Mine works pretty well. I still have some random tuner not found or searching for tuners though which makes it really low on the WAF. I ended up rolling back to an older beta driver and it helps but...

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Greetings, fellow DCR-2650 owners:

tl;dr: Has anyone been able to install the tuning adapter (TA) / tuning resolver service successfully in Windows 10? I have run the tuning resolver service installer (as admin account), but the service doesn't show up in Services.

I just bought an Intel NUC...
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Sun Sep 17, 2017 8:21 pm
TBS 6220, 6280, 6284 DVB-T2 Tuners - Owner's Thread

Last post by joecrow « Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:05 am
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by tommo » Tue May 08, 2012 10:02 am
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What with the Olympics and the Euro Championship this summer it was a good excuse to get a Freeview HD card. Went with this one as it seems to get better reviews than the blackgold and was cheaper.

Any tips advice/tweaks etc

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I finally got round to replacing my old dual Teratec tuner with a TBS 6285, it was not a real necessity more a nice to have 4 tuners but I am, so far, very pleased, should have done it ages ago! I particularly like the antenne in and out option as this removes the need for a splitter for connection...
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Last post by joecrow
Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:05 am
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 2250 - Owner's Thread

Last post by billrobpv « Wed Nov 19, 2014 8:07 pm
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by 2wheels » Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:34 pm
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Hi all! I just bought my first TV tuner card, but my picture quality is poor/bad. Any ideas as to the cause?

Here's the scoop. I bought the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 2250. I have a digital cable signal (Hauppauge helped me determine this). The picture is awful compared to what it was (see next...

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I guess my problem is vaguely similar to earlier posts.
I have Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows Media Center. WMC is turned on with computer power, and “stays on top”. I have 2 Hauppauge Win HVR2255 tuners, one has an analog cable input, and the other a HD digital antenna (OTA) input. I have...
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Last post by billrobpv
Wed Nov 19, 2014 8:07 pm
BlackGold BGT3620 - Owner's Thread

Last post by DrBen « Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:13 pm
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by oliroe » Tue Jan 03, 2012 12:52 pm
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Hi all

I'm looking for a bit of help from the community. I'm an experienced MCE builder but had awful problems with disappearing tuners and the Blackgold 3620. My current line of thinking is that it could be motherboard related as I've read other Asus owners have had similar problems.

If you own...

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Also of interest:
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Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:13 pm
DVBT Signal- BGT3540 v BGT3595?

Last post by Wheeker « Tue May 14, 2024 2:10 pm
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by Wheeker » Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:57 am

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I'm getting the attic converted so have had to lose my attic DTT aerial :roll: . Always got c.70% signal on WMC (W10), though now & again got pixelation, with my Blackgold BGT3540. I installed one of these aerials instead as it's discreet & clips onto Satellite dish which is roughly in direction of...

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So just to update in case anyone was following this (or am I talking to myself?!). I kept trying EPG123 Clean set-ups until I finally, somehow, detected some DVB-T channels. Signal Quality was 1% though? Then one day, for no good reason, signal quality on all DVB-T channels changed to 100%, perfect...

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Tue May 14, 2024 2:10 pm
Hauppauge 1657 WinTV-dualHD USB 2.0 TV Tuner has to be rebooted occasionally

Last post by LeonMc « Sat Feb 10, 2024 12:06 am
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by LeonMc » Sun Feb 04, 2024 5:27 pm

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I just recently converted over from Spectrum Cable to OTA due to loss of cable card support. I am using a Hauppauge 1657 Dual USB tuner and generally it works great. My setup is Win7 using WMC. I am allowing WMC to put the PC into sleep mode when it isn't being used, but I am not sure if this is...

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Just an update. Also I appreciate that there are still active WMC users around on this forum!

About a week ago, I moved the USB tuner from the back of my PC to a front USB plug so it was more accessible to being reset. Since moving the USB tuner to the front USB port, it has not gone off line...

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Sat Feb 10, 2024 12:06 am
DVB-T/T2 Quad Tuners with BDA Driver

Last post by Kevin Chalet « Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:07 pm
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by Pixelz » Sat Dec 16, 2023 3:16 pm

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I still have a 16 year old 'daily-driver' 7MC workhorse, and I'd like to ensure I have a stock of backup components in case of failure.
In particular my old TBS 6284 is a concern as I can't find an equivalent tuner card online.

Does anyone know of a PCIe quad-tuner card with BDA drivers for...

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Oh yeah sure, such cards only make sense when you don't have enough PCIe slot available. Compared to other options, the $-per-tuner ratio is incredibly bad, so if you don't have a specific need for it, it's a poor investment :mrgreen:

Still, 8-tuner terrestrial cards are very rare (to my...

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Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:07 pm
Getting WMC and ATI HD650 to work in Win 11

Last post by Barley « Sat Dec 23, 2023 1:40 am
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by bummer7 » Mon Aug 14, 2023 4:36 pm

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To all,

I can use some help in getting my ATI HD650 PCI-E card to work. The short story is I upgaded my desktop system a few weeks back. the new desktop is a used OptiPlex 7000 tower. Prior to this, my old desktop was running Win 10 Pro and the AT card was working perfectly well with WMC and...

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I'm using ATI Unified AVStream Driver 6.14.10.283 in Windows 11 Home 23H2 for my ATI TV Wonder HD 650 PCI-e.

One problem is that this driver prevents me from using Windows Security Core Isolation Memory Integrity. You might want to check to see if this is enabled. That may be blocking the driver...

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Last post by Barley
Sat Dec 23, 2023 1:40 am
Poor Signal on some channels on Hauppauge, fine on SiliconDust

Last post by Space « Fri Nov 10, 2023 1:17 am
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by zeldar » Thu Nov 09, 2023 11:15 pm

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I have two TV receiver devices for my W7 Media Center PC. One is an internal Hauppauge 2250 PCI card and the other is an Ethernet-connected SiliconDust HD HomeRun Connect. Each one has two tuners. My question is: Since they're both connected to the same antenna splitter and both on 7dB connectors...

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If you swap the input cables from the antenna splitter, does the problem follow the cable or does the Hauppauge still have the weaker signal?

It's possible that the tuners in the Hauppauge are simply not as good as the ones in the SD at picking up weaker signals, although I think that subchannels...

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Last post by Space
Fri Nov 10, 2023 1:17 am
Atsc 3.0 With windows media center

Last post by Kevin Chalet « Tue Aug 29, 2023 10:33 pm
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by atlastechtips » Tue Aug 29, 2023 9:43 pm

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So I am thinking about getting the HDhomerun with atsc 3.0 as I live in a bad signal area, and I was wondering if the hevc coded would work with Windows Media Center. If i installed a codec pack, could it work. I'm using WMC for win 7 I could upgrade to win 10 or 11. I heard people also had...

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It's not something I've been able to test myself (Europe is all 'bout DVB-T/DVB-T2), but all reports confirm that ATSC 3.0 is not supported (which is not surprising at all, since it appeared well after the TV part of DirectShow and WMC itself stopped being developed/maintained). It's also worth...

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Last post by Kevin Chalet
Tue Aug 29, 2023 10:33 pm
HDHomeRun versus WMC on Win7/Win10

Last post by 00derek « Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:54 pm
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by 00derek » Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:37 am

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I've been using WMC on a Win7 desktop for at least 10 years, still going strong recording OTA with the EPG program guide and Schedules Direct subscription.

On the same PC, we watch BBC iPlayer and run the iplayer downloads app.

It's taken a long time, but the BBC finally ended support for the...

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Well, I'm using your EPG solution for WMC/Win7 - I wouldn't say it was easy to set up for a novice, but I'm a button-presser so I persevered and it's now working very well. So I will probably give your W11 solution a go. Thanks!

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Last post by 00derek
Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:54 pm
TVHeadEnd BDA Drivers?

Last post by Kevin Chalet « Thu Aug 10, 2023 5:53 pm
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by Minxster » Sun Jan 14, 2018 4:56 pm

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I've got a couple of HDHomeRun units, but I'm testing Plex DVR which is causing WMC to clash on occasion. That said, I've got TVHeadEnd up and running and have Plex DVR talking to it with no (very little) issue. I don't want to stop using WMC as my main DVR, but Plex is great for remote...

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I think HDHRProxyIPTV was my last stumbling block, way back when, as I knew I wanted to shift over to Ubuntu + Docker. So my setup now is Plex and Jellyfin running on a Ubuntu VM, but everything else I'm working with is in another VM running Ubuntu, with Docker. Including a backup Plex instance. I...

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Last post by Kevin Chalet
Thu Aug 10, 2023 5:53 pm
WMC does not display HD for 2250

Last post by JanSiegrist « Sun Jan 22, 2023 11:09 pm
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by JanSiegrist » Fri Oct 21, 2022 10:49 pm
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Greeting all
WMC is not displaying HD for my OTA channels.
Setup: Win7 pro on Dell Quad core w 6g of ram, primary drive is an SSD.
Monitor is connected via HDMI.
Schedules Direct / EPG123 is used for both Verizon Fios Cable and Local OTA channels for 02896
At least on their web site I'm listed as...

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Just an FYI... I too am looking into Plex as an alternative - I do have a Plex pass - so far recording does work however the CPU maxes with 2 simultaneous recordings, with WMC I've recorded up to 6 simultaneous recordings and still had CPU headroom. As far as ATSC3 goes it doesn't look good for WMC...
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Last post by JanSiegrist
Sun Jan 22, 2023 11:09 pm
Tablo Quad vs Silicone Dust Quad (OTA) both with ATSC 3.0

Last post by StinkyImp « Sat Dec 10, 2022 4:51 pm
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by JanSiegrist » Sat Dec 10, 2022 1:41 am

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Greetings everyone
Has anyone done a compare of these two items: Tablo Quad vs Silicone Dust Quad (OTA) - both with ATSC 3.0 ? I see that the Silicon dust item is $ 100 less at $ 199 - so far from what I see the reviews are mixed but none of the reviews were using WMC. Has anyone out there used a...

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Has anyone out there used a Tablo Quad with WMC?

Hi Jan!

Tablo has not (and won't ever) work with WMC. I use both and they're totally different systems that aren't compatible. I don't know anything about Silicon Dust. Wiser people can shed some light on that! ;)

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Sat Dec 10, 2022 4:51 pm
2x AverTV Volar Green HD usb tuners Win10 WMC

Last post by alect71 « Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:44 am

by alect71 » Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:44 am

I am running WMC 8.8.5. I keep getting errors when recording are scheduled to start with a Error -1XXXX (can't recall the number). When I looked in the event logs for WMC it showed variations of Tuner not available and Tuner could not start .

How do I fix this?

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Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:44 am
Best tuner for UK freesat?

Last post by kennyken « Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:04 pm
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by kennyken » Wed Nov 24, 2021 6:38 am

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As titled I've just got my first home and I have a satellite dish. May retire my terratec dvbt for Freesat? Any recommendations on a tuner for this preferably HD as my screen/monitor is 4k. Thanks. Ken.

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Disappearing tuners is something I've experienced with my cinergy2400i and my avermedia pcie x mini card within the envy23. Typically have to remove the hardware to resolve the issue.

Well I'll look into TBS ideally just a dual DVB-S so I can record at the same time. The dish is a sky twin LNB so...

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Last post by kennyken
Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:04 pm
TBS 6902 tuners don't work first time

Last post by technodevotee « Thu Aug 05, 2021 6:11 pm
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by technodevotee » Mon Aug 02, 2021 7:38 am

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I created a thread about this here: but it probably should be here.

As stated in that thread, I bought two TBS 6902 Twin DVB-S2 cards to replace my existing TBS 6982 cards.

I receive signals from three satellites using DiSEqC switches and the system was working OK but I got them because TBS claim...

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I've thrown the towel in and requested an RMA on these.

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Thu Aug 05, 2021 6:11 pm
TV Card to replace AVerMedia H335 MiniCard DVB-T

Last post by kennyken « Wed Jun 24, 2020 10:35 am
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by kennyken » Sat May 09, 2020 10:35 am

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My fiancee has owned a HP Envy 23 touchsmart from new which comes installed with a H335 tuner.

It's been perfectly fine until recently it ghosted out on device manager becoming hidden an classed as not installed. I uninstalled the device and shutdown the all in one PC. I removed the card and gave...

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Thread To Close - Removed card and refitted and luckily it came back to life.

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Last post by kennyken
Wed Jun 24, 2020 10:35 am
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 2200 on Windows 10 Issues

Last post by Gilgamesh-au « Tue Jun 09, 2020 11:59 pm
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by Gilgamesh-au » Sun Jun 07, 2020 6:23 am

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Hello
I have WinTV-HVR 2200 that was working well on Win 8.1 Media Centre, but the mother board was slowly dying and finally died; and replacements only running Win 10 I've been forced down the Win 10 upgrade path.
The problem I'm having is that the tuner card isn't being recognised by Win 10 on...

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Hi Speedy,
My OS build is 18363.836. Sounds like my card is broken :-(. It would be nice if I had another PC to test it in.

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Last post by Gilgamesh-au
Tue Jun 09, 2020 11:59 pm
Hauppauge DCR-2650 Spectrum SDV channels not working

Last post by d00mb0yz96 « Fri May 15, 2020 11:10 pm
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by kdubbz » Wed Dec 13, 2017 6:23 am

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Hi, I bought a dcr-2650 a few months ago, set it up with a fresh Cisco STA-1520 tuning adapter and Cisco cable card from charter spectrum. Everything worked well for a month and then all of a sudden when tuning to a SDV Channel, the channel would tune and within 3 seconds or so an error would pop...

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I made an account to join this conversation.
I just bought one of these DCR-2650 tuners off eBay as Hauppauge is claiming Windows 10 support. Though I am on Windows 10, not willing to use WMC, hopefully NextPVR or WinTV.
The same issue is happening with me after getting my CableCARD and Motorola...

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Fri May 15, 2020 11:10 pm
How do I adjust the timezone of the EPG with EPG123?

Last post by Emanef99 « Fri May 08, 2020 6:24 pm
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by Emanef99 » Fri May 01, 2020 4:17 pm
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Hi guys
I've got EPG123 to pull down an EPG schedule from Schedules Direct, but it's one hour out on my DVR. How do I adjust it? There's nothing in the DVR that will let me adjust it (other than the normal time and date, which will mean the EPG will still be wrong) , and from what I can see on...

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Yes, sorry, I've just been using it alongside others to try to get my problem resolved as VBox have said it's as EPG issue, but I've wanted to replicate it in multiple applications and sources to demonstrate that it's actually their software that it needs fixing in. I've also been using...
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Fri May 08, 2020 6:24 pm
EPG123 Output Location

Last post by Emanef99 « Tue Apr 28, 2020 6:30 pm
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by Emanef99 » Mon Apr 27, 2020 7:46 pm

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Hi guys

Is it possible to set EPG123 to save to a network share for the output file? And can it be set as .xml instead of xmltv?

I am trying to find a solution to get a UK EPG from Schedules Direct into my VBox IP satellite tuner and am wondering if this very useful looking application EPG123 can...

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Yes, sorry, I should have said, Win 10.

Do you know of an application that can just view an xmltv in a schedule type format (ie display it as an EPG not just the text of the file)? Just for viewing to check the data I'm pulling in is correct?

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Last post by Emanef99
Tue Apr 28, 2020 6:30 pm
Hauppauge hvr-2250 not tuning VHF anymore

Last post by festusdog « Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:09 am
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by festusdog » Tue Dec 31, 2019 3:26 am

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Win 7 MC, Hauppauge HVR-2250, only using OTA TV.
Longtime WMC user, around 7 years.

Yesterday, before I switched over to EPG123, I could tune VHF stations fine.

So today, to fix the EPG problem, I follow the instructions to setup EPG123 and Schedules Direct. This includes nuking the old WMC...

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Awesome info.

I manually added all VHF channels, and so far so good. I was even able to add several slightly out-of-market channels that I can receive that are not listed under the zip code for my area.

Thanks for the great program and the help resolving the VHF problem tonight.

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Last post by festusdog
Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:09 am
Hauppauge HD PVR 2

Last post by tom « Wed Jul 03, 2019 4:20 pm
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by cmfromohio56 » Wed Jan 23, 2019 12:11 am

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Can I Record One Channel while watching another with the hauppauge hd pvr 2 ?

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I have this device and yes you can. Go to the Hauppauge web site to confirm.

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Last post by tom
Wed Jul 03, 2019 4:20 pm
Network DVB-S2 tuner

Last post by jelockwood « Mon Jul 01, 2019 4:15 pm
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by jelockwood » Mon Jul 01, 2019 12:07 pm

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If anyone else is still using Windows Media Center I was wondering if anyone can advise on a suitable network tuner that support DVB-S2 and is compatible with Windows Media Center.

Sadly SiliconDust despite originally announcing that they intended to release such a tuner never did and took an...

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I don't know of any pure network DVB-S2 tuners that will work with WMC unfortunately.

The only solution that I ever managed to get working reliably was to use the DVBLink products..... which meant having a PC to install the tuners in /on.

Are you looking for network tuners due to not wanting PCIe...

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Last post by jelockwood
Mon Jul 01, 2019 4:15 pm
Telestar DIGIBIT R1

Last post by RobsterUK « Tue Jun 11, 2019 10:27 am

by RobsterUK » Tue Jun 11, 2019 10:27 am

Does anyone have any experience with Telestar DIGIBIT R1 network tuners -

I am going to have to replace my (UK) Sky dish as the LNB has stopped working. So I am thinking that I should get a Unicable LNB (combined with legacy ports).
With a Unicable feed the above tuner would provide multiple...

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Last post by RobsterUK
Tue Jun 11, 2019 10:27 am
eyeTV netstream sat DVB-S2 tuner not found

Last post by WMCEnthusiast « Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:14 pm
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by WMCEnthusiast » Wed Oct 24, 2018 1:55 pm

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There I was thinking that I had found the perfect tuner to end all cabling headaches in the house, but so far it has only created annoyance.

So I know that this is a fairly old device, but how many new devices are there for our beloved WMC? Indeed there are very few network tuners that support...

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I totally forgot to reply after the agony I went through. This was ridiculously easy to solve after all.

Does the tuner show up OK on the network etc?

It didn't show up on the network, and that got me thinking. I knew from the diagnostics tool that UPnP discovery failed, so I looked into that....

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Last post by WMCEnthusiast
Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:14 pm
STB Tuner List with MCE

Last post by Kick4U « Fri Jan 04, 2019 3:22 am
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by Kick4U » Mon Dec 31, 2018 6:56 pm

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I'm about to test a few tuners/capture cards to upgrade from my outdated ATI WinTV 650 USB tuner. I just ordered an AverTV H727 and hope the HDMI input will work within MCE. FYI, I'm not using the program guide, since I'm only recording the hdmi based on a fixed time slot everyday.

I'm going to...

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S-Video/Composite:
Adding AVerMedia H727E 2D AVerTV H727 CaptureHD Ver. D C027 Ver. A

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Fri Jan 04, 2019 3:22 am
CableCard tuner in 2018?

Last post by cwinfield « Thu Dec 27, 2018 2:02 pm
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by mymce » Thu Dec 27, 2018 4:01 am

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I was attempting to set up a Hauppauge Wintv-DCR-3250 in the United States. I received an error message in Media Center that tells me this tuner is no longer supported in the U.S. There is a Microsoft link for a list of compatible tuners, but the page has been replaced with an add to upgrade to...

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your best choice is a HD home run prime but I have heard that they are hard to find with no 6 tuner version yet available, you could pick up a used Ceton InfiniTV6 from ebay for $150 Ceton support will be unavailble . I f you need one right away get a prime 3 off ebay, or hold out for the prime 6

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Last post by cwinfield
Thu Dec 27, 2018 2:02 pm
Selecting TV tuner card for OTA

Last post by mdavej « Wed Oct 17, 2018 7:07 pm
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by bmbm » Sat Oct 06, 2018 6:43 pm

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Hi everyone,
Have been enjoying all this forum offers and I am finally ready to get a tuner card for my PC and use Windows Media Center for ota recording and playback. One goal is economy and so I have checked out the offerings on ebay and have seen a big selection of Hauppauge cards with several...

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Keep in mind that the Connect doesn't work with Silicon Dust's own DVR software or Live Channels, should you ever decide to go that route. You need the more expensive Connect DUO for that. With the DUO, you wouldn't need a PC at all, only a streaming device and external storage.

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Last post by mdavej
Wed Oct 17, 2018 7:07 pm
I appear to be getting French HD channels with a DVB-T card

Last post by holidayboy « Mon Jul 23, 2018 2:36 pm
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by kennyken » Fri Jul 20, 2018 2:37 pm

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I appear to be getting French HD channels with a DVB-T card ?

As the title suggests I was very surprised when I had to install Media Center again due to one one of the usual silly Windows 10 build updates which as we know stops MC from functioning...

Anyway I setup Media Center again and...

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Hi.

Parts of mainland Europe do indeed use DVB-T for HD broadcasts.

Here in the UK we can only receive HD using a DVB-T2 tuner.

Edit: or DVB-S2 for satellite of course!

Sent via Tapatalk

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Last post by holidayboy
Mon Jul 23, 2018 2:36 pm
Can Hauppagge! WinTV-HVR-2250 be used to capture old videos?

Last post by Sammy2 « Thu Jul 05, 2018 4:07 pm
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by Sammy2 » Mon Jul 02, 2018 4:52 pm

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I still have my original tuner card, the Hauppauge! WinTV-HVR-2250 and pulled it out of a box while cleaning the garage the other day.

Can it be used to capture old Camcorder recordings using the S-Video input?

Thought I'd ask so I can get busy on that before I sell it.

TIA

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lurch66.. That's awesome!!

What I'm trying to convert is old 8mm(?) VHS-C (Compact VHS tapes). Still need to find the camcorder and the tapes! They're in a box somewhere!
I had WinTV 7 going about a lifetime ago (2010 or 2011). I guess I'll need to take a look on my HTPC and / or PC and see if I...

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Last post by Sammy2
Thu Jul 05, 2018 4:07 pm
2 hauppauge Nova-DT Dual DVB-t - keep loosing one

Last post by CyberSimian « Tue May 23, 2017 8:47 am
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by zippyaus » Mon May 22, 2017 12:43 pm

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Hi all

I have a Windows 7 media centre that I have had for years. It has been rebuilt and reboxed umteen times.

I have two hauppauge Nova-DT (500) Dual DVB-t installed.

Recently my MediaCenter has been dropping one of my tuners.

Windows device manager shows both cards but the media centre...

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I have two hauppauge Nova-DT (500) Dual DVB-t installed. Recently my MediaCenter has been dropping one of my tuners. Windows device manager shows both cards but the media centre complains that there are not enough tuners to record the scheduled recordings.

In my first WMC setup (on Vista), I...

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Last post by CyberSimian
Tue May 23, 2017 8:47 am
Hauppuage Colossus 2

Last post by Crash2009 « Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:42 am
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by planesguy2004 » Mon Apr 17, 2017 3:54 pm

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Hi. I am looking to purchase a Hauppuage Colossus to record my Comcast/ Directv. I have a few questions before I make the purchase. First, what is the difference between the Colossus, and the Colossus 2? Is the 2nd one worth the extra $10? Second, can I use the IR blaster to auto change the...

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There are 482 Posts containing the word Colossus

Get yourself started by searching Colossus >>>>>top right^^^^^

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Last post by Crash2009
Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:42 am
Problem with WMC Recognizing ATI Cable Card Tuner

Last post by Rgc101 « Thu Mar 30, 2017 5:07 pm
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by Rgc101 » Sat Mar 25, 2017 1:00 pm

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Hello - I know I'm using outdated technology but I am a dinosaur to some degree, and I always loved WMC. I recently moved from a house where I had 2 separate ATI digital cable tuners that were up and running on 2 different PC's without any problem. I lost my main HTPC in the move. Motherboard went...

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Well the problems turned out to be a signal issue with Comcast. Once we got that straightened out, the PC recognized the tuner immediately. Only had to call comcast twice to wrestle with the activation. I am currently up and running. :thumbup:

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Last post by Rgc101
Thu Mar 30, 2017 5:07 pm
Hauppauge 2250

Last post by Antsy « Wed Mar 22, 2017 8:42 pm

by Antsy » Wed Mar 22, 2017 8:42 pm

I have two computers, using Windows 7, set up in two different room that I use as HVR's with Windows Media Center, and both have Hauppauge WinTV HVR 2250 dual TV tuners. The problem I am having is that I can't receive or record shows on Discovery or the History channel. If I try to watch them live...

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Last post by Antsy
Wed Mar 22, 2017 8:42 pm
Ethernet in Ethernet out?

Last post by rmeden « Tue Mar 21, 2017 5:05 am
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by nolos » Fri Feb 17, 2017 2:07 am

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I have a HDHomerun Connect and have used it up until I just moved. Now I have my cable coming in from fiber. It goes from the fiber box to ethernet an into the box provided by the cable company. So now I can use the HDHomerun. I was thinking of trying to buy an ethernet to coaxial adapter and then...

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If it's anything like AT&T Uverse, while TV runs over IP it's proprietary multicast and probably encrypted. You'll need to use their set-top box and an IR (or RF) blaster to control it. Integrating with an external device will be difficult if possible. Sorry, but you're locked in. :(

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Last post by rmeden
Tue Mar 21, 2017 5:05 am
Compatibility of Hauppauge QuadHD 01609

Last post by SFnativeCA « Mon Mar 13, 2017 4:44 pm
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by DavdMCE » Mon Mar 13, 2017 2:48 pm

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Will the Hauppauge Win TV-quadHD 01609 board work with Media Center?

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Yes it does work with WMC. I use it with Windows 7 WMC and it coexists with two infinitv 4 cablecard pcie tuners in the same box. Microsoft's epg is also compatible with it. I like it because I can receive ota channels that cable doesn't carry.

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Last post by SFnativeCA
Mon Mar 13, 2017 4:44 pm
ATI All-in-Wonder-HD on Windows 8.1

Last post by dab2kab « Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:15 am
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by Sharks » Sun Jan 08, 2017 5:52 am

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Hello,
I was curious if has had luck getting ATI All-in-Wonder-HDs working on windows 8.1 as a tuner and/or with FM radio? I've installed it in my system and the video output portion of the card works but tuner of portion doesn't show up regardless of which drives I try and install.
Thanks,
-Sharks

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I can confirm the all in wonder hd tv tuner and fm radio work on windows 7. I dont know if it was my configuration, but i would commonly get, please wait searching for tuners... from the card, and it would also crash other tuners sometimes. So i stopped using the all in wonder tuners when i moved...

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Last post by dab2kab
Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:15 am
ATSC Signal Strength Utility

Last post by TheOsburnFamil « Mon Feb 06, 2017 1:57 am

by TheOsburnFamil » Mon Feb 06, 2017 1:57 am

Other than the WMC ATSC Signal Strength utility, does anyone know of a generic ATSC signal strength utility I could use? Would prefer something vendor agnostic (not tied to a specific tuner).

Thanks!

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Last post by TheOsburnFamil
Mon Feb 06, 2017 1:57 am
Hauppauge 1595 vs Vizio TV (QAM question)

Last post by bazeven « Mon Jan 23, 2017 4:59 pm
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by bazeven » Mon Jan 23, 2017 3:32 pm

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I have a new Vizio TV (ATSC/QAM) that picks up 55 channels over the feed and I'm guessing most of these are coming across QAM. The channels on the tv are 86-1, 86-2, 103, 104, 400, 401, etc.

I just picked up a Hauppauge 1595 dual usb tuner for my Media Center (win 7 pro) and ran the channel scan...

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Yes, it is a cable feed. Is there a better USB tuner for QAM signals? I'll try the WinTV software and report back. Thanks!

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Last post by bazeven
Mon Jan 23, 2017 4:59 pm
No Freeview HD with TBS 6281

Last post by mrsilver « Wed Nov 09, 2016 11:40 pm
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by mrsilver » Wed Nov 09, 2016 10:45 pm

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Hi all,

Just bought a TBS 6281 with the specific goal of watching Freeview HD and, when I come to do a channel scan, W7MC reports it as a DVB-T card!

So I selected configure manaually and it reports two tuners labelled DVB-T/T2. So I didn't worry too much about it - until the channel scan...

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Turns out I was trying to be too clever. If I left it as automatic rather than manually configure then the HD channels appear just fine.

In my defence, it didn't help by the fact the card was reported as DVB-T and not DVB-T/T2/C, which is what it really is!

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Last post by mrsilver
Wed Nov 09, 2016 11:40 pm
Top 3 Vendors in TV Tuners?

Last post by adam1991 « Fri Sep 30, 2016 8:58 pm
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by jwckauman » Mon Apr 06, 2015 2:07 pm
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If you had to rank the 3 best, most viable vendors in the TV Tuner card business, who would they be? I need to buy a new card to replace my HVR-1600 and was going to replace it with another Hauppauge, but I want to make sure i'm set for the future as well.

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1. SiliconDust
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Came here to do just this, you beat me to it.
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Last post by adam1991
Fri Sep 30, 2016 8:58 pm
Hauppauge quadHD Tuner

Last post by rogers2717 « Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:23 pm
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by shspvr » Wed Mar 16, 2016 5:50 pm

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I forgot to make a post about it here any way it Price at $99 you can have look at it here at this link
And yes it work in Windows Media Center with ATSC and QAM
Just think of what could do with a pair them

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I forgot to make a post about it here any way it Price at $99 you can have look at it here at this link
And yes it work in Windows Media Center with ATSC and QAM
Just think of what could do with a pair them

Well I don't have a pair of them, but my new Quad plus the 2255 (dual + FM) lets me...

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Last post by rogers2717
Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:23 pm
Dual Tuner Colossus

Last post by grittree « Sat Sep 17, 2016 9:54 pm
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by fixmymediacenter » Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:48 pm
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I have 2 colossus tuners installed in my windows 7 media center. I have recently come across this information that enables dual tuners in media center. Here is the information:

Go to start type regedit into the run/search box and hit enter
Navigate to...

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I want to thank Pir8Man and drumdandrum for solving a problem I had been unable to do.

I added a mini to my D* DVR, and found out it doesn't have it's own IP address that can be used to change the channel. Like with DTVipcontrol.

Searching in D* forums, I did find a reference to SHEF. But not...
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Last post by grittree
Sat Sep 17, 2016 9:54 pm
Multiple ATSC tuner Avermedia m780, only one ever works

Last post by sdowney717 « Sat Sep 03, 2016 2:05 am
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by sdowney717 » Thu Sep 01, 2016 8:17 pm

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I have a usb vbox 3560 and a PCIE Avermedia m780.
Both tuners windows detects and they work fine.

I wanted to add a third tuner. So bought another Avermedia m780.
However only Avermedia tuner 2 is available, WMC says Avermedia tuner 1 has no signal?
Device manager only shows Avermedia with 3...

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Windows and WMC can not handle multiple identical PCIE tuners is clear.
So I will have to buy another but different usb tuner.
I suppose the argument is the driver has issues too, so my attempt is a bust.

The m780 worked so well, I figured just get another one, I am not too surprised though that 2...

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Last post by sdowney717
Sat Sep 03, 2016 2:05 am
HVR-2250 - Win7 x64 sleep issue

Last post by stuartm « Sat Jun 18, 2016 6:52 pm
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by FrenchieQc » Sat May 28, 2016 1:54 am

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Hello everybody,

First time posting here and english is not my first language so please bear with me.

I'm currently trying to setup an HTPC using an HP Elite 8300 - SFF with an i5-3570 processor (full specs here : ).

The OS is Windows 7 x64 Professional (all updates applied), RAM is 4Gb DDR3,...

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Those version id's show in the device manager info for the card. But we were talking about the HVR 2250 so what the card reports seems to be a bit different for your 2255. Regardless, I reported the problem to Hauppauge several years ago and sent them failing cards. I an very disappointed that they...

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Last post by stuartm
Sat Jun 18, 2016 6:52 pm
XBOX 1 Tuner

Last post by spanner « Fri Jun 03, 2016 9:55 pm

by spanner » Fri Jun 03, 2016 9:55 pm

I saw this on Lifehacker. I m sure everyone already knows about this, But i got a kick out of it. It seems like several steps/years backward from what Microsoft already had. Not to bad a price though

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Last post by spanner
Fri Jun 03, 2016 9:55 pm
Add a Genpix tuner? USA

Last post by mistress « Fri Jun 03, 2016 8:55 pm

by mistress » Fri Jun 03, 2016 8:55 pm

I am trying to add a Genpix Skywalker tuner (USB connection) to my MC7. My goal is getting 123 guide data, not viewing.

Media Center cannot find my tuner although the Genpix is working in a sat application. If I go the manual install route - I am presented with a list of few satellites to select...

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Last post by mistress
Fri Jun 03, 2016 8:55 pm
HD PVR 1212 and Dish Network

Last post by texasex1998 « Thu Apr 07, 2016 12:50 pm
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by ctechbob » Sat Mar 14, 2015 4:01 am

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Has anyone here ever had any luck at all with getting either the HD PVR itself or a standalone MCE blaster to change the channels on a Dish Network receiver? I've been fighting for 2 days now to try and get something to work, including playing around with IR Server Suite to no avail. I can get IRSS...

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Well, problem solved. Putting the solution here in case someone comes looking. Yes IRSS works and works well. The problem is, you have to find and download the older version of it. The newest one that you find online will not work:

IR Server Suite - Test Build 1.5.0.62 - Does not work...

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Last post by texasex1998
Thu Apr 07, 2016 12:50 pm
Hauppauge 1600 combo tuner--analog part gives low bit rate

Last post by jjacksqr « Fri Feb 26, 2016 7:55 pm
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by jjacksqr » Thu Feb 25, 2016 12:57 am

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I have a Hauppauge 1600 combo tuner (analog/digital) running on Windows 7 SP1 64 bit. After installing, the digital tuner works great. The analog tuner also installed fine but isn't working fine. I get this on WMC when I tune to a cable (analog) station:
Low bit rate. The tuner has stopped...

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One more point.
I noticed that if I have WMC muted, I'm able to get about a minute of closed-captioning content from a tuned-in analog channel before the low-bit-rate message appears.
Does anyone know if there is a registry value to set the bit rate differently?

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Last post by jjacksqr
Fri Feb 26, 2016 7:55 pm
CableCard Devices?

Last post by kd6icz « Thu Feb 25, 2016 8:02 pm
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by spinnaker » Fri Feb 19, 2016 10:51 pm

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Not sure where this should be posted if a mod wants to move then that is fine.

I have been OTA for a number of years now. My antenna is mounted in the attic. It actually looks through a couple of walls as I live in a townhouse.

I will be moving. The new location is 200ft lower than my current...

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Recently TWC dropped the additional jack fee from my bill. So now I'm paying just the $2.50 per M card. That really helps since I went from two to four cards when I transitioned to HDHR Primes from Ceton.

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Last post by kd6icz
Thu Feb 25, 2016 8:02 pm
Win7 64 bit drivers for Conexant 23880 tuner

Last post by jjacksqr « Thu Jan 28, 2016 5:53 pm
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by jjacksqr » Tue Jan 26, 2016 7:06 pm

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I have an old ntsc pci tuner (Conexant 23880 Video Capture (Blackbird NTSC Dual Input) and Conexant 2388x MPEG Encoder).
I had this tuner in a WinXP Media Center PC. Later I got a Vista 32 bit PC and put this tuner along with an ATSC tuner (Hauppauge). At that time, all drivers installed without...

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Are you saying that your 64-bit OS installed a 32-bit driver? If that's true, I have hope. From everything I've read on the Web, installing a 32-bit driver on a 64-bit system isn't possible.
I haven't been able to try compatibility mode yet, but I will.
At first, I thought you were talking about...

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Last post by jjacksqr
Thu Jan 28, 2016 5:53 pm
Blackgold drivers?

Last post by Leeber « Thu Jan 14, 2016 6:55 pm

by Leeber » Thu Jan 14, 2016 6:55 pm

Hi all,

I'm trying to find some drivers for my Blackgold BGT3650 but the BG website seems to be dead. Anyone know whats happened to them? Does anyone have a working link for the latest W10 driver package for the BGT3xx range?

Many thanks in advance,

Lee

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Last post by Leeber
Thu Jan 14, 2016 6:55 pm
TV tuners won't wake up

Last post by fwupow « Fri Nov 13, 2015 3:12 pm
Replies: 55
by ael_lel » Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:08 am
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I recently had my computer in the shop to recover some deleted files and now the TV tuners won't record after the computer has been inactive for a while. I have set every power saving option I can find to NEVER, OFF, etc. The TV tuner cards are in PCI Express slots. The PCI Express Link State Power...

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Looks like I solved my own problem. I had recently disabled my LAN Controller in the MoBo BIOS settings and apparently this led to trouble with either the BIOS or Windows finding the device (The Hauppage TV card not the LAN controller which I expected to disappear) upon wake-up from hybernation.

I...
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Last post by fwupow
Fri Nov 13, 2015 3:12 pm
HP ASUS 5188-7344 ATSC tuner all of a sudden is not working

Last post by Ken H « Wed Oct 28, 2015 10:39 pm

by Ken H » Wed Oct 28, 2015 10:39 pm

HP ASUS 5188-7344 FENNEC BTC-201 ATSC NTSC TV TUNER LOW PROFILE PCI CARD

I've had one of these installed and working for a few years and all of a sudden the tuner says it's not getting any signal. I verified the signal, replaced the cable and reseated the card with no change. Also did a rescan for...

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Last post by Ken H
Wed Oct 28, 2015 10:39 pm
Red Hat Linux message on my screen?

Last post by Ed « Sun Aug 23, 2015 5:06 pm
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by tzr916 » Fri Jul 12, 2013 1:56 pm
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This has happened a few times and I don't know if it is a message from my cable head end or the Ceton Tuner? I leave WMC running 24/7 on my HTPC. When I come back some time later, like overnight, the picture looks like an old DOS prompt with about 10 lines of writing that starts with Red Hat Linux,...

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It's a channel/feed from the Cable Co. I have a channel that displays a virtually identical screen/image to that 24/7 - Even on TVs themselves via integrated QAM tuner.

Wonder why WMC insists on tuning to that channel if live tv is left on overnight on a Saturday night?

Couldn't tell you. That...
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Last post by Ed
Sun Aug 23, 2015 5:06 pm
How to check compatibility between tuner card and PC?

Last post by Scallica « Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:11 pm
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by sjohn » Wed Aug 19, 2015 6:21 pm

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hi and thanks in advance for the help. I cant figure out how to check compatibily before i purchase a tuner card, on ebay, for my PC. The card is a NEW HP WinTV HVR-1260 TV Tuner Card Low Profile - 594230-001, 589743-ZH1 and the PC is a hp dc7900 sff. I have looked on the HP site and google with no...

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The HVR-1250 and HVR-1265 are compatible with WMC 7, so your chances are good.

However, I would consider a better quality tuner.

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Last post by Scallica
Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:11 pm
No signal at all for channel 16 with Hauppauge card

Last post by dmagerl « Sun Aug 02, 2015 5:26 pm
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by spinnaker » Sun Aug 02, 2015 3:12 am

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I have a Hauppauge 7164 installed in my WMC PC. I used to be able to get channel 16 local station WINP. Now I get nothing, no signal at all on the signal strength tester. My television gets a nice strong signal (based on picture quality TV has no meter) when the same antenna that was hooked to the...

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tvfool.com shows WINP as being on ch 38. If its also showing on 26, there's either a repeater in the area or the guide is wrong.

All you need to do is go to the Edit Sources screen again and disable the sources with the channel you cant receive.

I believe you can merge the listings back together...

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Last post by dmagerl
Sun Aug 02, 2015 5:26 pm
Newbie vs Comcast Cable Card

Last post by DavidinCT « Thu Jul 16, 2015 4:20 pm
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by nashfulboy » Thu Jul 02, 2015 10:09 pm

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Can someone please explain how I would install a Comcast cable card into my windows 7 HP Media Center. Do I have to buy a specific card? Does Comcast give me a card which is then inserted into the PC card?

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Everyone, I took my directons above and added them the WIKI, let me know if I missed a step this should be pretty clear

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Last post by DavidinCT
Thu Jul 16, 2015 4:20 pm
BGT3650 - No Signal

Last post by adrian s « Sat Jun 06, 2015 7:14 pm
Replies: 4
by _jon_ » Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:14 pm

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Hello,

I have recently upgraded my HTPC (completely different hardware apart form the TV tuner card) and since doing so, I've had a problem whereby I'm getting a No Signal error message in Windows Media Centre when the PC first turn on or resumes from standby. It works perfectly at all other...

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Thanks, I'll give it a go. Although I now seem to be losing tuners again :(

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Last post by adrian s
Sat Jun 06, 2015 7:14 pm
Installing WinTV-HVR-1250

Last post by TeddyR « Tue May 26, 2015 5:51 am
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by lily1029 » Mon May 04, 2015 3:19 am

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I just purchased a new desktop computer from Dell with Windows 7 so that it would come with Media Center. I am looking at the possibility of removing my Hauppauge 1250 from my old tower and putting it in the new one. At first I didn't think I had the skills but I realized it is just a matter of...

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Although I would recommend one of the recent SiliconDust network tuners instead (in my experience USB tuners tend to fall off more often than PCI or network tuners, For the USB Hauppage, you may have to rerun TV setup but select the option to manually configure my TV signal . You didn't mention if...

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Last post by TeddyR
Tue May 26, 2015 5:51 am
HD tuner/capture for DirecTV

Last post by thinkbui « Thu May 21, 2015 12:32 am
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by thinkbui » Tue May 19, 2015 11:21 pm

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Hi guys.

I've had an HTPC running Windows 7 Media Center for a couple of years now. I built it myself since I didn't want to have to deal with proprietary restrictions, as I'm sure many of you relate to, for upgrading and storing recordings on my own hardware. Even though using Windows does have...

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It's looking more and more like I should write my own remapper tool since I only need it to perform a very basic function. Not really sure why it didn't occur to me earlier since I am a professional software engineer and all I basically need it to do is convert, say, 6681 to 668-1 from some kind of...

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Last post by thinkbui
Thu May 21, 2015 12:32 am
Hauppauge HVR-2255 question

Last post by Ed « Thu Apr 09, 2015 2:15 pm
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by jwckauman » Wed Apr 08, 2015 4:25 pm

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I just swapped out my old HVR-1600 for a new HVR-2255 because the HVR-1600 wouldn't support clearQAM channels. I got the driver installed fine but two problems in Windows Media Center.
1. WMC isn't automatically finding my card. I have to manually select it.
2. WMC isn''t finding any clearQAM...

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There's only 2 coaxial inputs on the 2250/2255. Unless you're including the S-Video port. On mine the FM input is the one closest to the S-Video port, and the TV input the outer/top port. They just might have changed it up on the 2255 though; as I mentioned mine is the 2250. It should be clearly...

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Last post by Ed
Thu Apr 09, 2015 2:15 pm
WMC doesn't find HD channels; only SD

Last post by richard1980 « Mon Apr 06, 2015 11:07 pm
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by jwckauman » Sat Apr 04, 2015 1:54 pm

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I have TWC. My new Panasonic HDTV (2014 model) after running an auto channel add function, found all my local channels in HD as well as 70 or so basic cable SD channels. So I went to my Windows Media Center and tried to do the same. Nothing was found except the SD channels. I did a manual setup in...

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Here's a fun read...

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Last post by richard1980
Mon Apr 06, 2015 11:07 pm
Help identifying my Hauppauge card [HP Pavilion m7750n]

Last post by jwckauman « Fri Apr 03, 2015 3:52 pm
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by jwckauman » Fri Apr 03, 2015 3:22 pm

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Could someone help me identify the Hauppauge card that I have in my computer? I have a Pavilion m7750n that I have upgraded over the years but still has the original Hauppauge card. I added the link to the PC specs from HP at the bottom of this post which includes info about the TV card I have....

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I found out what it was. An odd variation of the HTV-1600 with three ports instead of the usual two.

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Last post by jwckauman
Fri Apr 03, 2015 3:52 pm
AverMedia A327 minicard in HP IQ506

Last post by unclewoody « Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:23 am

by unclewoody » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:23 am

This minicard was installed when I bought the computer as a Vista machine (2008).
It is a dual-analog, so I have been using HD Homerun Prime since provider (Mediacom) went all-digital.
Due to problems with pixelation with HDHR, I want to try the old card with a digital-to-analog converter box (from...

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Last post by unclewoody
Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:23 am
Elgato EyeTV Netstream 4Sat

Last post by milli260876 « Wed Mar 18, 2015 5:12 pm
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by clio_williams » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:25 pm

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Surely someone has tried one of these....?

A 4 input, HD Satelite, Network Tuner. Surely the ideal device for Media Center for those that have a satellite dish and want an external tuner...? Or can anyone recommend something else that fits this bill?

Having done various searches I can't...

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General bda drivers should mean the device would be WMC compatible... I would assume this has to be the compatible driver as dvbviewer altdvb and dvb dream all use them??

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Last post by milli260876
Wed Mar 18, 2015 5:12 pm
Mixing tuner types is not a good idea

Last post by Jim5055 « Sat Mar 14, 2015 6:50 am
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by Jim5055 » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:40 am

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Mixing tuner types in windows 7 media centre and
I have.
Four digital now tiny twin USB tuners that are quite old and require four antenna feeds and thus amplification and associated cabling and powered USB hubs and after a series of power supply failures I want to remove this problem.
Two...

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So far so good . . .

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Last post by Jim5055
Sat Mar 14, 2015 6:50 am
DVBS2 in West Coast US (TBS5980)

Last post by TeddyR « Fri Mar 06, 2015 11:30 pm

by TeddyR » Fri Mar 06, 2015 11:30 pm

So...

I was able to get a TBS5980 (USB dvb-S2 tuner) connected which works with media center. The issue that I am having is that the satellite and transponder list within WMC is REALLY outdated. Example: The satellite that I am using (I have a fixed dish, connected to a 4 way box to allow the TBS...

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Last post by TeddyR
Fri Mar 06, 2015 11:30 pm
FM Radio Tuners? & Internet Radio?

Last post by Sharks « Fri Feb 27, 2015 4:51 am
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by KevinRush » Tue Feb 17, 2015 4:34 pm

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Hello,

I am told that some TV tuners have FM Radio tuners in them also but I have been searching the internet BING/google and even looking at some of the manufacturers web sites and haven't easily found any information? Does anyone use the FM turners on their Windows Media Center? Thoughts?...

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That would be great if you could mcewinter, thanks for going through the trouble.
: )

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Last post by Sharks
Fri Feb 27, 2015 4:51 am
No audio for STARZHD channel

Last post by Crash2009 « Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:32 pm
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by coopersport » Sun Feb 22, 2015 4:09 pm

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Hi there, I have a windows 7 WMC, I'm using a Hauppauge Colossus capture card connected to the Motorola Verizon top box, I have no problem recording live TV but when I program to record a movie on STARZHD the sound cannot be recorded, it works for few seconds after the movie starts and than it...

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Hi there, I have a windows 7 WMC, I'm using a Hauppauge Colossus capture card connected to the Motorola Verizon top box, I have no problem recording live TV but when I program to record a movie on STARZHD the sound cannot be recorded, it works for few seconds after the movie starts and than it...

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Last post by Crash2009
Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:32 pm
Easycap with Win7 and WMC

Last post by Hawkinstech « Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:02 pm

by Hawkinstech » Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:02 pm

I am looking for a video capture device that will work in Windows media center. I have Windows 7 x86. I was looking at these Easycap USB capture devices. Has anyone used one of these and successfully hooked it into WMC?

Here is one on eBay:

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Last post by Hawkinstech
Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:02 pm
Dual Colossus and WMC7 IP tuning issue

Last post by michelle « Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:49 pm

by michelle » Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:49 pm

I am running dual colossus cards in Win7 x64 pro with directv H24 receivers with ip tuning. Everything is set up in WMC and records fine, but once in a while the ip tuning doesn't work. I have found that the only way to get it to work again is to rerun TV signal setup. I've have tried a lot of...

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Last post by michelle
Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:49 pm
Strange Colossus Problem

Last post by michelle « Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:07 pm
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by vincewarde » Sun Jan 11, 2015 9:13 pm

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I have had a Colussus set up on a Directv HD Reciever for several years - and now it has developed a strange problem. WMC takes a long time to begin displaying video, displays the no signal or weak signal error message and then either starts displaying video after a delay - or often never displays...

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I've been having the wrong channel issue with my colossus card and have tried numerous things with no solution. I have a dual card setup on H24 receivers with IP tuning and I have to run the tv setup again to get the channel changing working properly again. Is there a workaround for this or does...

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Last post by michelle
Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:07 pm
Two tuner devices

Last post by shumiron « Fri Jan 30, 2015 4:57 am
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by steveo_in_sd » Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:43 am

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Hi all - I currently have a Hauppauge DCR-2650 two turner cable card tuner, and would like to have more tuners. I feel like 4 is a good number to shoot for based on our usage. I have one PC that serves one TV via an Xbox 360 extender (so max two display devices (usually no live TV on either), plus...

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I use two HDHomerunDual tuners in my setup. I had a Hauppage PCI included but removed it when I got the second HDHomerun. This seems to work well altho sometimes I get no tuner available message when I think there should be one available. I do have three computers watching and recording at times so...

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Last post by shumiron
Fri Jan 30, 2015 4:57 am
Problem with Avermedia 716x BDA

Last post by Jim5055 « Sun Jan 11, 2015 9:52 am
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by tootal2 » Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:27 pm

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I have a avermedia 716x bda in my computer and it only gets a few channels. I get a perfect picture with my antenna on my tivo hd and my TV but on avermedia 716x bda only a few channels wll come in. What can i do to fix this problem? Is there a better antenna tuner i can use?

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Once the channels you can see are configured, go to setup, TV, guide, edit channels, select a channel, click it, on the left menu select edit sources, you will now see signal strength and signal quality information. You may see multiple sources some not selected. What you do see? Are the selected...

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Last post by Jim5055
Sun Jan 11, 2015 9:52 am
Dual AVer Hybrid Volars - only one working at a time

Last post by Jim5055 « Mon Dec 29, 2014 11:05 am
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by JoeyH » Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:37 am

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Hi all!

I've recently started setting up a Windows 7 WMC DVR for my house. I have two AVerTV Hybrid Volar Max USB tuners connected to a USB hub, which runs to the DVR, and just a basic coax splitter feeding the cable feed to both of them.

As far as I can tell, all of the channels I'm receiving...

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Update to my post.
One blown power supply running a USB Hub. The dangers of running powered hub. One blown avermedia USB TV tuner. Down to two tuners now pending replacement.

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Last post by Jim5055
Mon Dec 29, 2014 11:05 am
Recommendations: Half Height Tuners?

Last post by Crash2009 « Sat Dec 06, 2014 6:04 pm
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by markolarko » Thu Dec 04, 2014 12:02 pm

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I have been doing HTPCs for 10 years and now find myself building a 'mini' HTPC - See here

I would like a quad TV tuner but to date the only one I have found that comes close to my requirements is the BlackGold 3655.

I have a BG3620 which works well on another HTPC.

The BG3655 is Half Height...

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Oh, now I get it. UK. Welcome to the club.

You might want to have a look through some of the system showcases..... some good idea's in there.

In particular, this one might work for you.....

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Last post by Crash2009
Sat Dec 06, 2014 6:04 pm
Issues with August DVB-T210 Single USB Tuner

Last post by holidayboy « Sun Nov 23, 2014 7:24 pm
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by LBJ » Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:05 pm

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Hi,

I am in the UK. I am using the August DVB-T210 USB tuner with Windows 7 x64 Media Center. A single tuner DVB-T2 tuner.

I have two problems:

1. The transmitter area I live in has recently moved certain channels (BBC FOUR HD, BBC NEWS 24 HD, etc) to the new COM7 multiplex. This occurred a week...

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:thumbup:

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Last post by holidayboy
Sun Nov 23, 2014 7:24 pm
Is there an OTA 4-tuner card or network tuner?

Last post by Mike88 « Tue Nov 04, 2014 7:37 am

by Mike88 » Tue Nov 04, 2014 7:37 am

I have a pair of OTA AVerMedia dual tuner Duet cards but am thinking about adding more tuners in order to accommodate overlap padding when recording multiple programs. Usually I have no problem but sometimes I get strange tuner assignments as mentioned here.

I could add a couple dual tuner...

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Last post by Mike88
Tue Nov 04, 2014 7:37 am
Any dual DVB-T2 USB tuners?

Last post by mrsilver « Thu Oct 30, 2014 3:20 pm
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by mrsilver » Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:46 pm

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Following up from this thread over a year ago , has the situation with dual USB DVB-T2 tuners become any better?

TBS appear to have completely discontinued the TBS5280 and my searches for something that I can replace my existing DVB-T2 dual USB tuner are not going as well as I'd hoped.

Last...

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Hi,
just spotted Blackgold have a new range of USB tuners on their website, BGT3710 and BGT3720 are T2, but it doesn't say whether they are dual tuners.
their last USB stick, the BGT3555 was dual tuner but only DVB-T.
the website also doesn't seem to list any drivers for this range, so as usual...

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Last post by mrsilver
Thu Oct 30, 2014 3:20 pm
Will one antenna serve up 4 OTA tuners?

Last post by lrish « Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:39 am
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by lrish » Tue Oct 14, 2014 6:16 pm

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I want to have the ability to record more than two channels at once using one antenna. Can I use a HDHomerun (with antenna connected) and a PCI card (with no antenna connected) or do I need a seperate antenna hooked to both devices? I know WMC pools the tuners but didn't know if this type of...

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Thanks for the help, but this is getting returned asap. I installed my leaf antenna directly to the tv - perfect picture, no issues at all. I installed it to the HD Homerun and walked through the required setups including WMC. Every HD channel has such a terrible pixelation/skips in the stream that...

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Last post by lrish
Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:39 am
ATI TV Wonder DCT Tuning Adapter Help

Last post by JohnG « Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:37 am
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by JohnG » Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:19 pm

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I am having to RMA my Ceton Infinitv 4 so while it is away being fixed I pulled out my old ATI TV Wonder digital cable tuner which I know is only a single tuner but I would like to use it for the week or so that my Ceton card is away so I can watch football. I got it installed on my Windows 7 64...

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Let's go Buffalo!

Believe it or not, all of TWC CableCARD support is through Buffalo.

Anyway, glad you got it figured out. When we had ATI DCT before Ceton, it worked with TWC's TA. We had 2 ATI DCT's, rented two CableCARDS and but only needed 1 TA. Ceton was the so much needed light at the end...

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Last post by JohnG
Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:37 am
Thinking of cutting the cord and going OTA--tuner advice?

Last post by aeblank « Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:14 am
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by adam1991 » Fri Oct 03, 2014 11:59 pm

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I have a Ceton 4 PCIe, which has run very well for the last 3.5 years. But I'm thinking of dropping cable TV service altogether.

I love having 4 tuners. It's wonderful.

What direction should I look for OTA tuners nowadays?

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I have two duals for my 6 OTA channels. Beats the crud out off $80/mo or more.

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Last post by aeblank
Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:14 am
Need help understanding HD & Tuner Card Capability

Last post by Indymil « Mon Sep 29, 2014 9:44 pm
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by Indymil » Sat Sep 27, 2014 10:25 pm

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I have BrightHouse (Carmel Indiana) with HD service. My question concerns the 4 digit, 1000+, HD channels (wide screens). I have two computer media centers with Ceton PCI 4 tuner cards (with tuning adapters and cable cards inserted) that can get them. I have a Silicon Dust Home Run Prime (with...

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Thanks for the responses. I have concluded the 2250 is not capable of getting the 'upper channels . I will either be satisfied with it's capabilities, or upgrade to a different device (I was doing this for my sister, trying to upgrade her basic cable).

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Last post by Indymil
Mon Sep 29, 2014 9:44 pm
No signal for ATI HDTV wonder

Last post by cadams8221218 « Tue Sep 16, 2014 11:34 pm

by cadams8221218 » Tue Sep 16, 2014 11:34 pm

Trying to setup a ati hdtv wonder I have my antenna hooked up and I know it works cuz I use it in npvr WMC says it detects it but doesnt have a signal y is this??? I would just use npvr but the damn program guide always says no details please help

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Last post by cadams8221218
Tue Sep 16, 2014 11:34 pm
No signal error in WMC with HD-PVR after 1 week of running

Last post by dani0759 « Thu Aug 28, 2014 3:45 pm
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by dani0759 » Thu Aug 28, 2014 5:09 am

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I finally got WMC to work with my Hauppauge HD-PVR after using the latest Hauppauge drivers and using the MediaPortal drivers for the IR remote. I only get occasional channel changing mixups.

That is until a month ago. Now, after Windows 7 runs for about a week, I get the no signal error when...

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The following webpage

says that once Windows Media Center gets a error from the tuner, it can't recover.

I don't think this is the problem since the error never occurs while watching a show. Although it does suggest why I need to reboot.

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Last post by dani0759
Thu Aug 28, 2014 3:45 pm
Two HVR-2250 glitching

Last post by dotbatman « Wed Aug 27, 2014 11:10 pm
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by jeremy.mathis » Sat Jun 28, 2014 3:44 am

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Hello,
I am a little confused as to what is happening here. In my recording box, I have two HVR-2250 tuner cards. They have worked fine for about a year and a half now. Recently, I finally ran ethernet throughout the house and now I can use the xbox as an extender. I got that configured and it was...

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I know you may never see this reply, but perhaps someone else will. I had a very similar issue in the past. It was even more confusing than yours because the signal would drop out on only one of my four tuners (I had a HVR-2250 and a Avermedia Duet). Turned out to be a coax cable that had somehow...

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Last post by dotbatman
Wed Aug 27, 2014 11:10 pm
Remove copy protection with HD-PVR and an extender

Last post by dotbatman « Tue Aug 26, 2014 3:28 am
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by barnabas1969 » Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:05 pm

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This thread is a continuation of a discussion that started in ( this post ).

I've been experimenting with an HD-PVR as a means to remove copy-protection from recordings that were recorded from a CableCARD tuner. I've been thinking about this for a long time. My idea was to write some kind of...

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Just wondering if you'd made any progress toward a solution on this. I'm interested in doing the same thing. Around here there is only TimeWarner, and of course they (like brighthouse) mark everything copy-once.

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Last post by dotbatman
Tue Aug 26, 2014 3:28 am
Live TV - video options

Last post by waynec42 « Sun May 25, 2014 12:52 am
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by waynec42 » Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:50 am
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Hi,

My motherboard is the GA-MA69GM-S2H. It has Integrated ATI Radeon X1250-based graphics. I'm using the HDMI out for Audio and Video. I have the Catalyst Software installed. My monitor is Full HD 42 Panasonic Plasma.

Can anyone advise the best options for getting the best picture for live TV...

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Thanks for everyone's advise. I've got the new card installed and it works like a charm.

Cheers.
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Last post by waynec42
Sun May 25, 2014 12:52 am
Maximum number of Hauppauge HVR 1600’s on PCI bus

Last post by barnabas1969 « Fri May 16, 2014 7:10 pm
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by stvcmty » Fri May 16, 2014 7:04 pm

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How many Hauppauge HVR 1600’s can I put on the PCI bus before overwhelming the bus for multi-channel recording?

I have a quad core 3.0 GHz Phenom II system with 8GB of DDR2 ram (AMD 740G / SB700). It is running windows 7 professional 64-bit. I am using tuner salad to get past the 4 tuner per type...

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PCI bandwidth is typically 133MB/second. That's 1064Mbps. A typical HD TV stream will vary between 12-20Mbps. So, no... you won't saturate the bus with your PCI tuner cards.

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Last post by barnabas1969
Fri May 16, 2014 7:10 pm
Getting Started with OTA WMC

Last post by Mike88 « Tue May 13, 2014 7:36 am
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by BillVa » Tue May 13, 2014 1:34 am

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I'm an experienced systems builder (since 1975) and I've built a PC-based Windows Media Center system before, but not for a decade or more. I want to record TV shows from over the air (OTA) broadcasts but I can't find a tuner card (PCI Express) that can support more than 2 tuners. I've worked with...

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I don't know if you have 2 PCI-E slots available, but I use 2 of these dual tuner cards for a total of 4 tuners with WMC7.

They seem to be intermittently available on Newegg & Amazon for about $50. I also got one from ebay.

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Last post by Mike88
Tue May 13, 2014 7:36 am
Tuning Adapter and SDV error 1

Last post by kevin34ct « Fri Apr 25, 2014 1:58 am
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by rcme » Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:05 am

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I am hoping someone here has experience with tuning adapters. I have Time Warner Cable (TWC), a STA1520 TA, a Ceton InfiniTV 4, and Windows 7 (32-bit).

Last Fall (Aug-Oct 2011) I started getting the SDV error: 1 on some SDV channels. Somewhat consistent, but not always reproducible on the same...

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For me all I had to do was turn off the Tunung adapter (STA1520) by pressing the button, wait 5 seconds and then turn it on. That solved the problem for me. It seems like every time my cable system sends out a reprovisioning signal to my TA it get's messed up. I have Charter Cable.

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Last post by kevin34ct
Fri Apr 25, 2014 1:58 am
WinTV HVR-1600 won't set up in WMC

Last post by smalltownguy2 « Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:57 am
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by smalltownguy2 » Tue Apr 22, 2014 1:59 am

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I purchased a PCI version of the HVR-1600 recently, and I'm trying to set it up on my Win7 64bit machine. Win7 auto-detected the tuner and installed drivers right away, but WMC doesn't see it when it looks for tuners. Tried setting the tuner up manually, but no dice.

Tried rolling back to an older...

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I tried them all, and I moved the card to a computer that has a fully functional 2250 in it, too.

I installed WinTV just to see if the card would work outside of WMC, but no dice.

I'm fairly certain I got a DOA card - the seller agreed to send me a PCIe tuner card instead. I'll report back with...

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Last post by smalltownguy2
Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:57 am
Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 - losing channel map

Last post by lagunacomputer « Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:40 am
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by alan » Mon Sep 30, 2013 2:40 pm

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I have an odd problem, one of my WMC's is losing the mapping to CBS channel 9.1. I have CSI setup to record with 9.1 selected specifically and I found that last week's recording was that of one of the local CBS sub-channels instead. I tuned to 9.1 and in fact it is now displaying a sub-channel...

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read this:

you have to scan for channels with the network disconnected.
This will pull a 'real, full scan'
You will want to stop the scan once a few channels show up, but not let it complete. IE stop around %45 scan complete.
now go into the channel editor in MCE and write down which...

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Last post by lagunacomputer
Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:40 am
Tuners suddenly stopped

Last post by barnabas1969 « Tue Mar 25, 2014 6:01 pm
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by adelaide » Tue Mar 18, 2014 11:32 am

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Hi,

I'm hoping someone can help me. I have W7MC with xbox 360's as extenders and hauppauge dual digital tuners (an internal card). The system has been working well for two years and all of a sudden the tuners stopped recording. It looked like MC was recording but below the guide it said this show...

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Note that the OP hasn't been back to this site after posting a question a week ago.

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Last post by barnabas1969
Tue Mar 25, 2014 6:01 pm
Hauppauge Colossus with Shaw Direct Satellite STB

Last post by vomlet « Sun Mar 23, 2014 7:33 pm
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by danny6869 » Sat Feb 16, 2013 10:41 pm

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Anyone out ther have this configuration woing with windows media center? MCE detects the tuner, but will only let me choose between rogers, and FibeTV? I can't for the life of me figure out how how to have MCE give me another option for this tuner.

(all of my other tuners are fine)

Help!?

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3-23-1014 . Works now for me. I too had to run the hauppauge software .
After you install the drive it appears in the programs.
win 7 - 64bit.

www.hauppauge.com > download and install, reboot after install : drivers + MCE + IR blater .
- start > hauppauge > setupTuner(something). - then choose...

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Last post by vomlet
Sun Mar 23, 2014 7:33 pm
Windows 7 Weak Signal Detected Fix

Last post by erkotz « Fri Mar 14, 2014 6:14 pm
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by elmopio » Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:21 am

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Well M$ or somewhat of a MC team that's left has found a issue in the registry when a weak signal is detected. I have been seeing this issue for the last month or so I had to apply this update to test. Before I thought it was my infinity card giving me issues. But the only way to fix this was too...

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Can somebody please explain to me how that solution fixes anything? From what I can tell, all it does is change the allowed percentage of dropped packets from 10% to 50%. Changing the threshold doesn't change the fact that there are packets being dropped.

So my question is, are the packets...

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Last post by erkotz
Fri Mar 14, 2014 6:14 pm
SDV coming to OKC

Last post by barnabas1969 « Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:44 pm
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by RealCodeGuy » Thu May 23, 2013 4:13 am

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I received a letter from Cox today to inform me starting June 27th I will need a tuning adapter for my Ceton and HDHomerun devices. I have two InfiniTV's in one PC and an HDHomerun on the network. Will I need to request three tuning adapters? SDV is new to me so I hope this transition goes...

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Richard, that's one of the main reasons I was so happy that the TA connects directly to the HD HomeRun PRIME. I hid both HDHRP's and both TA's in the closet. Those TA's are as big as a normal cable box. I read somewhere that the SA/Cisco TA's are just repurposed old standard def cable boxes. I...

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Last post by barnabas1969
Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:44 pm
Copy Prohibited message kills video

Last post by KevinC25 « Sun Mar 09, 2014 7:54 pm
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by UCBearcat » Sun Sep 08, 2013 2:08 pm
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I originally posted about an issue that I've had on my WMC7 workstation for some time now. I've been (slowly) troubleshooting the issue as I have time. For reference but I'll outline the details here.
Mods- I started a new thread so I could give a more concise list of what has been done in hopes...

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This is the code I've used in the batch file. (Note that I've replaced the actual 8-digit IDs of my two primes by 1234ABCD and 5678EFGH.)

In task scheduler, I have set up two tasks, which run the batch file at 1252am and 1252pm respectively. Otherwise they are identical tasks. I put the number 460...
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Last post by KevinC25
Sun Mar 09, 2014 7:54 pm
WMC does not detect ClearQAM

Last post by mistarick « Fri Feb 14, 2014 10:08 pm
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by mistarick » Fri Feb 14, 2014 5:52 pm

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Hey guys. I recently discovered that my tuner (Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250) which has been working well with WMC for analog cable channels, picks up over 300 clear qam channels through setup in win TV 7. Why does WMC not recognize these channels as they are not encrypted? Thoughts?

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The only thing I'm running into is that WMC will tune the added qam channels but not every time. When it doesn't it tells me that I may need to adjust my tuner and them I have to close and reopen WMC. Looks like ill have to put some time into this and see where it takes me. Thanks for the info...

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Last post by mistarick
Fri Feb 14, 2014 10:08 pm
AverMedia Duet is now available

Last post by mistarick « Fri Feb 14, 2014 12:54 am
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by Mike88 » Wed May 08, 2013 8:38 am

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In case anyone is interested -

While the AverMedia Duet still does not show up on their website it is available for $50 & free shipping from Amazon or $3 shipping from Newegg. Several months ago Avermedia told me it was not discontinued but they were out of them. For $50 I picked up a spare.

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Sounds good as I have been debating between one of these or a HD homerun for my Ota. The duet is half the price, but I do like the idea of a network tuner that pcs can share. Although, I have read that the hdhr have a weaker tuner. I have a bit of decision making before my next build. My buddy...

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Last post by mistarick
Fri Feb 14, 2014 12:54 am
TV Tuner with HDMI In

Last post by tad « Mon Feb 10, 2014 7:15 pm
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by bLau » Fri Jan 03, 2014 1:24 am

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I had my HTPC connected to my satellite receiver via composite and was watching live TV in Media Center (Windows 7). I just upgraded my service and got a new receiver. The only output the new receiver has is an HDMI. Does anyone know if there is a TV tuner card out there that supports HDMI or if...

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I had my HTPC connected to my satellite receiver via composite and was watching live TV in Media Center (Windows 7). I just upgraded my service and got a new receiver. The only output the new receiver has is an HDMI. Does anyone know if there is a TV tuner card out there that supports HDMI or if...

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Last post by tad
Mon Feb 10, 2014 7:15 pm
Error: Files needed to display video are not installed

Last post by nathagt « Sun Jan 05, 2014 5:46 am
Replies: 24
by shumiron » Wed Feb 06, 2013 12:29 am
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WMC on Windows 7 - HD Homerun HDHR3-US tuner. I receive the following error when trying to watch or record live TV - Files needed to display video are not installed or are not working properly. Restart WMC or restart the computer. I have an ATI 5450 video card in a Dell E521 Computer with AMD...

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good explanation. I had this issue on a previous build and now I know why!
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Last post by nathagt
Sun Jan 05, 2014 5:46 am
Can I use WMC IR Blaster instead of Colossus Blaster?

Last post by cadams8221218 « Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:50 am
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by InIrons » Wed Nov 27, 2013 1:28 am

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Hi,

WMC IR blaster works fine with my Avermedia tuner for set top box, just got the Hauppauge Colossus and cannot get the IR blaster to work, it flashes and its installed on same place on IR eye on cable box.... but I cannot get channels to change.

Can I just use my normal USB bean bag IR blaster...

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yup if u wanna use the bean bag blaster with WMC and the colossus u gotta use an app called eventghost, or lmremote, or ir server suite, i was not able to get any of them to work properly with my colossus and my bean bag ir blaster, i finally got the colossus ir blaster to work in conjuction with...

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Last post by cadams8221218
Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:50 am
Not a Charter customer and want to get a CableCard

Last post by calcuttaman « Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:06 pm
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by calcuttaman » Mon Dec 30, 2013 1:15 am

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I thought it would be nice to get my daughter a Hauppauge 2650 and have her sign up for a $2 CableCard, but I'm a bit confused by this. She is not currently a Charter customer. What channels would she be getting? Could I even do this?

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Thanks for the great informative reply makryger. I had Almost come to those same conclusions but really wanted someone to confirm them, thanks.

The ability to receive channels depends on whether those channels are encrypted. If they are 'clearQAM' (ie, not encrypted), then you would not need a...

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Last post by calcuttaman
Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:06 pm
SiliconDust HDHomeRun DUAL w/ a Huagpage 1800 (PCI) & 950Q

Last post by stevethebrain « Sat Dec 07, 2013 3:17 am

by stevethebrain » Sat Dec 07, 2013 3:17 am

Planning on adding a SiliconDust HDHomeRun DUAL w/ a Huagpage 1800 (PCI) & 950Q (USB)

Plan is to connect antenna to HR then HR to PC w/ supplied cat/5 cable (no router yet). Hopefully I'll have four OTA available HTPC tuners.

When I installed the 1800 & the 950Q I just plugged them in and W7MC...

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Last post by stevethebrain
Sat Dec 07, 2013 3:17 am
Need recommendations 4a Mini PCIe ATSC/QAM tuner

Last post by mdavej « Fri Dec 06, 2013 10:43 pm
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by ricktendo » Fri Jan 25, 2013 9:08 am

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I have currently a VAIO AIO PC with 1x2 Mini PCIe TV tuners

Tuner 1- AverMedia A313 Pure Analog
Tuner 2- AverMedia A317D Digital ATSC

I need to upgrade my digital tuner because it crashes my computer when I am watching or recording a show (I think its a driver issue) and need your advice. Looking...

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Who's your cable company, ricktendo? I thought clear QAM was going away for everybody soon. My cable company killed it last month. You may want to look at Silicon Dust again for a long term solution.

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Last post by mdavej
Fri Dec 06, 2013 10:43 pm
Hauppauge WinTV HVR 2200 USB Remote Drivers

Last post by ricktendo « Thu Dec 05, 2013 4:38 pm
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by BASELINER » Thu Dec 05, 2013 4:22 pm

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Hi,

I'm using the above Tuner card in a a Windows 2008 R2 Media Centre, on an HP Micro Server (ProLiant N36L) and wondered where I could download drivers for the USB TV Remote that comes with the card ?

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Can you post the hardware id of the device in question.

Aparently windows 2008 r2 does not come with mce ir support

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Last post by ricktendo
Thu Dec 05, 2013 4:38 pm
Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 + Motorola VIP1200 receiver

Last post by teagueAMX « Thu Dec 05, 2013 6:36 am

by teagueAMX » Thu Dec 05, 2013 6:36 am

I recently changed my TV feed provider from DirecTV to AT&T. Prior to this change MCE worked perfectly with my DirecTV receiver. However, I can't seem to program/teach my MCE IR transmitted to change the channels on my AT&T/Motorola VIP1200 receiver.

I attempted the 3 methods: 1) Automatic, 2)...

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Last post by teagueAMX
Thu Dec 05, 2013 6:36 am
Which one of my HTPC tuners is malfunctioning? Or are both?

Last post by stevethebrain « Fri Nov 22, 2013 10:26 am
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by stevethebrain » Wed Nov 20, 2013 12:51 pm

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Hello I have two Hauppauge TV tuners WinTV-HVR-950Q & WinTV-HVR-1600

using free TV antenna.I don't think it's a weak reception problem w/ the antenna because the station that usalley creates this error messages works fine w/ the TVs builtin tuner and I'm able to record this same channel fine w/...

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OK I'll look again in history for a more complete error message and report back.

Hopefully the history on a deleted recording will still reveal the message, I tend to delete a partial recording right away because on ocasion a partial recoeding will crash the PC then I have the dreaded blue screen...

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Last post by stevethebrain
Fri Nov 22, 2013 10:26 am
HDCP issues with Hauppauge & Questions about HDFury

Last post by brantmacga « Fri Nov 22, 2013 2:46 am

by brantmacga » Fri Nov 22, 2013 2:46 am

so, after a few years w/o traditional pay-tv, finally got satellite service.

i added a hauppauge colossus to my setup for the dish network receiver. what they gave me is the new vip211z, and to my surprise, this has only composite and HDMI outputs; no component output.

so i have it connected...

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Last post by brantmacga
Fri Nov 22, 2013 2:46 am
Avermedia Volar MAX?

Last post by leroys1000 « Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:31 pm
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by karenjenel » Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:00 pm

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Hello out there! To begin, our channels were all fine, mapped and normal. We tried to hook up an HD antenna just to see if it would work for basic cable..it didn't, the signal wasn't strong enough. So, we go back to WMC and all the channels are wrong. Please, before anyone tells me to manually...

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I remember setting up NextPVR on XBMC and the setup for NextPVR always started the
channel listings on channel 1 and threw the whole guide off.
Might check that channel 1 is disabled in whatever server client software you are using for XBMC.
As far as media center goes,the whole turner broadcasting...

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Last post by leroys1000
Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:31 pm
Cannot get Clear QAM channels on WMC

Last post by blueiedgod « Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:55 pm
Replies: 17
by RudyTivo » Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:21 am

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I have an ATI 650 PCe tuner with Windows XP with WMC. WMC recognizes the channels but when I go to the channels it is just static. I've verified that the tuner is receiving the Clear QAM channels and that they are viewable by using NextPVR. I did a search, but of course the limitations of the...

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Not dead. Dying.. Comcrap rendered my clearqam tuners useless.
I have Comcast in the San Francisco Bay Area. we still have digital unscrambled channels for broadcast and the some cable channels. anything more than the lowest package level is scrambled.

just wondering what area you are in....

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Last post by blueiedgod
Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:55 pm
ATI DCT Unknown Device

Last post by Dkeyguy1 « Tue Oct 01, 2013 11:43 pm
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by bmurphy88 » Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:20 am

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I have two Ati DCT's (Internal). The first one was working for years with no problems. I just got a new one, and when trying to install it, the drivers did not sucessfully install. It shows up as unknown device in device manager.When I put the one that was working, back in, it does the same thing....

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For future reference, all ATI DCTs install as individual devices, with unique identifiers, doing a driver install, which also checks and updates, if needed, the firmware.

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Last post by Dkeyguy1
Tue Oct 01, 2013 11:43 pm
What good features are there in a satellite tuner?

Last post by barnabas1969 « Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:32 pm
Replies: 6
by a cooperator » Thu Sep 26, 2013 2:11 pm

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Hello everyone!

I know that a satellite tuner (DVB-S2) 'with HD Technology' would be compatible with my country. However, I am really quite hesitative about purchasing this device or not, in particular because I don't know what good features there are in this device other than the recording, not...

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Some satellite pci/pci-e cards can be used for internet access. Download only. But you will still need a provider...
I stand corrected. Good information.

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Last post by barnabas1969
Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:32 pm
Can a laptop's external video port be used for watching TV?

Last post by barnabas1969 « Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:19 pm
Replies: 20
by a cooperator » Tue Sep 24, 2013 11:40 am
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Hi everyone,
Can I specify an external screen plugged to my Laptop to watch TV via WMC TV Tuners?

I really have TV Tuners(a satellite tuner (DVB-S2)), which is compatible with my country Yemen, plugged to my laptop and an external screen also plugged to my Laptop, so I would like to specify my...

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A satellite tuner that says that it has an HD feature only means that it is a DVB-S2 tuner. DVB-S (no 2 ) tuners can only receive standard-definition (SD) video. If you buy a DVB-S tuner that is SD-only, you will not be able to view HD channels, no matter what resolution your TV/display is. That's...
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Last post by barnabas1969
Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:19 pm
Quad DVB-T2 tuner for W7 WMC ?

Last post by apbms1 « Wed Sep 25, 2013 1:18 pm
Replies: 14
by Boo » Sun Sep 08, 2013 4:55 pm

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Hi,

I am in the UK and have a TBS6284 card in my W7 WMC based HTPC which has the opposite from normal problem in that it is fairly reliable in starting up from sleep and fairly unreliable starting up from power off. Once it has failed though, it doesn't come back on its own without a lot of...

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Ive just ordered one direct from tbs for £131 .

DETAILS IN THE OWNER THREAD

WORKS VERY WELL.

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Last post by apbms1
Wed Sep 25, 2013 1:18 pm
Disappearing Channels using Cablecard tuner

Last post by jamawass « Tue Sep 24, 2013 8:31 pm
Replies: 6
by defl8ed » Sun Aug 25, 2013 10:15 pm

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I have been using Windows Media Center as my primary method of watching tv for about 4 years now. My current setup is using a Hauppauge DCR-2650 with Cox Digital Cable, but I don't think this problem is specific to my hardware. After roughly 2 years of mostly trouble-free viewing I noticed that...

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If power cycling the TA doesn't permanently fix it, call the cable company to check your signal strength. In my case it was too low and was rectified. Haven't dropped channels since.

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Last post by jamawass
Tue Sep 24, 2013 8:31 pm
Which USB satellite tuner would be compatible in Yemen?

Last post by a cooperator « Tue Sep 24, 2013 11:59 am
Replies: 5
by a cooperator » Fri May 17, 2013 1:13 am

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Hi everyone,

I would respectfully like to let me know which external usb satellite tuner would be compatible with my country 'Yemen' before spending any cash on a tuner I should check that the tuner is compatible with the type of satellite service broadcasting in my area.

I found only this...

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Thank you all of you so much indeed.

I know that a satellite tuner (DVB-S2) 'with HD Technology' would be compatible with my country. However, I am really quite hesitative about purchasing this device or not, in particular because I don't know what good features there are in this device other than...

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Last post by a cooperator
Tue Sep 24, 2013 11:59 am
Hauppauge HD PVR and HP WMC remote & Signal Loss

Last post by jeedee « Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:53 pm
Replies: 5
by jeedee » Fri Sep 06, 2013 1:48 am

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Hi Everyone

Hope someone can help me with this issue

I recently purchase a hauppage HD PVR and I successfully set it up to work with me directv h23 HD receiver on windows 7 64bit on WMC

However the tuner did not came with the remote control so I am trying to use the original WMC remote from HP,...

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Hi Venom
Thank you for your reply,

The issue right now is not the blaster since it is working Ok with the IR server program

I order a new CPU and core 2 duo E8400 since right now my mce machine is using an e4400, lets hope this helps to the freezing issue

Also my default Tv recording drive is...

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Last post by jeedee
Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:53 pm
FTA and Satellite TV setup advice

Last post by milli260876 « Sat Sep 14, 2013 2:25 pm
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by DeadlyChicken » Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:04 am

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Hi,
If I want to set up media center to receive free to air dvb and a feed from a Satellite receiver, that shares some channels.

its a bit of an odd setup, in a poor reception area where free to air is a bit hit or miss, so they have this VAST satellite box which is just the same free to air...

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Do you know the encryption? Some satellite cam card combos will work. But being fta that does sound convoluted!

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Last post by milli260876
Sat Sep 14, 2013 2:25 pm
TV tuner encountered an error. (0x%2) %3.

Last post by antidodge « Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:15 am

by antidodge » Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:15 am

When I wake my Win 7 HTPC from sleep and go to watch live TV, I get an error message saying listening or viewing conflict. no tuner available to satisfy the current request . When I look in the event viewer, I see this under media center:

TV tuner encountered an error. (0x%2). %3.

The bizzare...

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Last post by antidodge
Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:15 am
Need FM tuner info

Last post by kd6icz « Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:02 pm
Replies: 16
by CWatkinsNash » Thu Aug 29, 2013 8:31 pm

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So I'm adding another HDHR Dual and a dist amp to my setup later today (hurry up and get here, UPS!) and it occurred to me that I'm only missing one thing from my setup - Radio. But it seems that FM tuners are so out of fashion that even tv tuners that support it don't mention it. I've seen that...

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Those would be super cool if they supported the american HD Radio standard instead of the European DAB standard.

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Last post by kd6icz
Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:02 pm
CBS Not showing in my lineup

Last post by xelrash « Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:08 pm
Replies: 10
by Thebytedoc » Tue Sep 03, 2013 11:26 am

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After Time warner dropped CBS and now restored it it still is not showing up in my CETON channels or Media Center guide. I'm using the pci Ceton tuner with media center. Any suggestions??

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I resolved this late yesterday by re-running TV setup.
CBS and Showtime are now showing in the guide and the scheduled recordings are back in the lineup.

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Last post by xelrash
Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:08 pm
TBS QBOX DVB-S2 Tuner

Last post by ADX « Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:14 am

by ADX » Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:14 am

Hi there,

Has anyone had any experience with a TBS QBOX DVB-S2 USB. Using the DVB Dream software I review all the channels but when I set-up the unit within WMC it complains that it has no signal. I think it maybe to do with WMC not initialising the unit.

many thanks guy's

Update. I can get it...

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Last post by ADX
Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:14 am
Mixing OTA and CableCARD

Last post by adam1991 « Mon Sep 02, 2013 4:52 pm
Replies: 10
by jziggity » Fri Aug 23, 2013 12:10 am

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So, TWC and NBC in our area still can't get along, and we are rapidly approaching the one-month mark, not to mention the upcoming fall season of new shows. I really hoped I wouldn't have to do this, but it looks like I need to explore the option of adding an OTA tuner to my current setup of WMC7...

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This works fine as everyone described, but be careful about doing it with cable clear QAM. It's a cheap way to get an extra two tuners for those channels you can get straight out of the wall without a cableCARD, but.

But. The damn cable company is likely to move those channels around. At that...

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Last post by adam1991
Mon Sep 02, 2013 4:52 pm
More then 8 tuners equals slow record response

Last post by choliscott « Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:13 pm
Replies: 17
by choliscott » Fri Aug 23, 2013 8:53 pm

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Hi Everyone,

Just seeing if anybody has any suggestions to this issue. I was running 2 Infinitv4 pci cards & when I pushed the record button, it would usually show the red dot usually between 5 seconds to maybe a couple of minutes (depending on how many times the show played).

I received a...

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Yes it's installed the on the SSD. When I did the Win 7 Home install, I unplugged all the other drives with the exception of the dvd & ssd (so it wouldn't create the 2nd 100 MB partition on the other drive). The one other test I thought about trying was only scheduling the shows with not too many...

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Last post by choliscott
Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:13 pm
Hauppauge 2250 Issue

Last post by Jay863 « Tue Aug 20, 2013 3:24 am
Replies: 2
by Jay863 » Mon Aug 19, 2013 4:17 am

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Hey everyone,

I just recently built a HTPC with a Hauppauge 2250 TV tuner about a week ago. The setup with WMC was pretty painless and I am very please with the amount of channels I get. I have my coax cable running right into my tuner I am not using a STB or anything like that. I noticed recently...

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I think it is just the cable company because when I installed WinTV and scanned for for channels I still couldn't view those channels. I Just get a black screen. I don't know what else it could be other than the cable company encrypting the channels.

Thanks for the help though. Like I said not a...

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Last post by Jay863
Tue Aug 20, 2013 3:24 am
2250 finds no channels

Last post by staknhalo « Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:39 pm
Replies: 8
by Towermax » Fri Aug 16, 2013 9:53 pm

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Tuner: Hauppage 2250 with Hauppage IR remote
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium, using Windows Media Center
Cable: Comcast with old set-top box
System: i3-3320 on H61 motherboard with 8GB ram. SSD for system disk and hard drive for recordings.

I've had a working HTPC with the above setup for several...

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Correct.

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Last post by staknhalo
Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:39 pm
Can I add ATSC tuner without losing CableCARD guide config?

Last post by staknhalo « Mon Aug 19, 2013 8:58 pm
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by DrHow » Mon Aug 19, 2013 8:50 pm

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I have an HDHomeRun Prime cableCARD tuner working with WMC. I want to add two PCI tuners, one for ATSC and the other for clear QAM. I fear that when I tell WMC to configure tuners I will lose the current Guide channel lineup configuration for all the cableCARD channels. This would be a great...

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Add a tuner, you have to re-setup all tuners.

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Last post by staknhalo
Mon Aug 19, 2013 8:58 pm
HDHR and InfiniTV6 ETH on same network?

Last post by EZEd « Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:35 pm
Replies: 5
by EZEd » Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:19 pm

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Anyone out there using both HD Homerun and InfiniTV6 ETH on the same network? I currently have the ITV6 ETH and an Avermedia Duet installed in the computer. The ITV6 ETH is shared over the network, the Duets are not. I want to move to all tuners shared across the network. Is anyone running this...

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Good info - thanx. Think I'll pull the trigger

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Last post by EZEd
Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:35 pm
San Antonio Time Warner Cable and Hauppage 2250

Last post by jaimeknapp « Sun Aug 11, 2013 3:18 pm
Replies: 2
by Dgr_874 » Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:41 am

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I'm moving to San Antonio this weekend and we are going to sign up for a basic tv package from Time Warner. Here in this small California town we live we have been using the 2250 to record and tune the basic analog cable channels we get. Will my 2250 work with the cable that Time Warner will...

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I am in SA and have two different PCs containing 2250s. One is attached to TW and I recently intsalled a Winegard MS2002 amplified omnidirectional outside about 25-foot high for the other. We are located near the SA airport, for reference. We get all of the national network OTA channels and they...

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Last post by jaimeknapp
Sun Aug 11, 2013 3:18 pm
Reliability of ITV4 vs HR Prime

Last post by lucasbuck « Fri Aug 09, 2013 1:07 am
Replies: 8
by lucasbuck » Thu Aug 01, 2013 1:25 pm

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I bought an ITV4 a last Feb and have had certain channels that drop in and out (says subscription required). I opened my first (of several) support tickets in March, a month after purchase. It's been a year of back and forth, 4 visits from the cable company to check signal strength, beta drivers,...

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I'll have to see how the repair holds then see what to do. It's worked well except for those handful of channels going in and out. Thanks for the information!

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Last post by lucasbuck
Fri Aug 09, 2013 1:07 am
WinTV-HVR-2250 IR Hardware Not Found in WMC

Last post by badkarma0007 « Mon Aug 05, 2013 2:05 am

by badkarma0007 » Mon Aug 05, 2013 2:05 am

Hello all,

Hopefully this won't be long winded but I thought I'd post it for myself for the future I have the Hauppauge 2250 card (the one that came with a remote, I believe it's the media kit one) and I'm using Windows 8 Pro x64. The problem I was facing was that although WinTV v7 2.8a worked I...

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Last post by badkarma0007
Mon Aug 05, 2013 2:05 am
Want HD Cable box input for Windows Media Center

Last post by blueiedgod « Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:44 pm
Replies: 12
by Ohmster » Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:52 pm

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I am pretty good at searching but for the life of me, I cannot get a simple answer from someone who knows about this for squat. Time to call in the experts (you).

I just built my dream machine and have installed a WinTV HVR-1600 so that I can watch TV on the PC, specifically Windows Media Center....

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Figures, another hit-and-run driver. I'm not going to bother responding to one post wonders anymore until they show real participation in their thread(s).

OP is probably not happy with the answers, and went elsewhere.

Sometimes, people are heck bent on making it work because they already have...

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Last post by blueiedgod
Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:44 pm
HDMI in card in WMC7

Last post by bobbob « Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:23 am
Replies: 1
by wally007 » Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:16 am

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Hello guys,

I'd like to subscribe to Sky UK basic channel so that little one can enjoy Disney Jr. but with advent of new pairing mechanism being implemented ( and refusal using one of their own setup boxes ) I'm wondering whether anyone is using something other than decrypting keys etc ....
Has...

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i went that route before i upgraded to the full dreambox decrypting solution which is still serving me well. i had to take a component signal in from the hd fury to a hauppauge HDPVR but in full HD. its fine, just complete rubbish compared to the fully integrated solution. anything relying on a...

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Last post by bobbob
Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:23 am
AverMedia TV Tuner / Comcast / Missing Channels

Last post by staknhalo « Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:34 am
Replies: 4
by onyxtape » Thu Jul 25, 2013 6:48 pm

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First time visitor to TheGreenButton - hoping to get some help/advice here.

I have an AverMedia TV dual tuner card (A188) running flawlessly on a dual Atom HTPC setup for over 2 years now. We have the limited basic package from Comcast, which is basically the local OTA channels plus a few other...

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Thanks for the help! Per glorp's link, it looks like Comcast moved 13.1 Fox to 25.1 - at least for the time being. I added the channel manually, QAM 256, and voila it showed up. Of course, the WMC channel guide doesn't have this info.

But what's interesting is that the Panasonic plasma still is...

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Last post by staknhalo
Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:34 am
Media Center not finding ATSC channels; need help with EPG

Last post by blueiedgod « Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:22 pm
Replies: 2
by davew » Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:44 am

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I run W7 MCE with 2 HVR-1255 tuners. Switched from cable to OTA here in the Brampton, Ontario, Canada area earlier this month. Of course, I run into the issue of MCE not recognizing digital ATSC in Canada. I found and applied pnear's hack for MCE to allow it to scan for the broadcast signals and it...

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Does entering your postal code not pull up EPG?

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Last post by blueiedgod
Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:22 pm
TBS6220 PCIe TV Tuner disappearing act

Last post by ggm « Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:46 am
Replies: 22
by ggm » Sat Jul 20, 2013 3:54 pm
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I installed the latest Windows driver (1.0.1.0) for a TBS6220 PCIe TV Tuner Card in a PC running Windows 7. The driver appeared in the Device Manager under Sound, video and game controllers, and five *.sys files appeared in the system32\drivers folder. TV in Windows Media Center worked well, until...

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On restarting WMC, TV was available, but with a message which said, The MhegAddIn program has stopped responding and you will be returned to Windows Media Center . I didn't know that I had started whatever it is.
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Last post by ggm
Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:46 am
Activation Required when trying to Play a recorded show

Last post by foxwood « Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:32 pm
Replies: 8
by JackatForum » Sun Jul 07, 2013 6:54 pm

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Ceton, InfiniTV 4, PCI, Windows 7/64 Pro, MG Gigagyte GA78LMT-USB3, AMD fx6300, 4G Ram. Bright house is the provider and there is a TA.

I have had the cable card and InifiTV working for a few months and decided it was time to move it to a HTPC system from a Tower. Bought a Silverstone GD05, new...

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Yeah, when I built my HTPC, DCA would NOT enter the key. It would just end, saying that everything is wonderful. It was BECAUSE I had an OCUR BIOS in my motherboard.

I had to run the DCA on another PC to get the activation key, and enter it directly in the registry on my HTPC.
Are you sure that...

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Last post by foxwood
Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:32 pm
Mohu Leaf Antenna + HDHomeRun + 7 year old Sharp?

Last post by blueiedgod « Fri Jul 05, 2013 2:28 pm
Replies: 9
by Skydancer » Thu Jun 27, 2013 10:04 pm

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Hey

I am trying to cut the Comcast umbilical cord and have bought a Mohu Leaf antenna (to be exact: Mohu Leaf Ultimate Amplified Indoor HDTV Antenna). I also have an HD HomeRun dual network tuner which I have been able to scan for the Comcast channels previously, but when I connect the tuner to my...

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Hey

I am trying to cut the Comcast umbilical cord and have bought a Mohu Leaf antenna (to be exact: Mohu Leaf Ultimate Amplified Indoor HDTV Antenna). I also have an HD HomeRun dual network tuner which I have been able to scan for the Comcast channels previously, but when I connect the tuner to my...

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Last post by blueiedgod
Fri Jul 05, 2013 2:28 pm
OTA TV only - Tuner pool questions

Last post by blueiedgod « Fri Jul 05, 2013 2:25 pm
Replies: 4
by mrjspeed » Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:19 pm

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I have 2 7MC HTPCs that I don't use for TV. They access movies/pictures/home videos via shared folders from my file server. House is gigabit wired.

We are thinking of dropping cable and just using local OTA TV as well as Netflix. No cable card. I'd like to get maybe 4 to 6 tuners installed on a...

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You don't need (want) to install tuners in a server. Just get a couple of HD HomeRuns. You don't need the Prime model, just the ordinary HDHR3-US. which contains 2 ATSC tuners for $99.

Available from Newegg for $60 at the moment:

Was down to $49.99 with coupon but sold out quickly.

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Last post by blueiedgod
Fri Jul 05, 2013 2:25 pm
Do dual DVB-T2 USB exist?

Last post by Space2 « Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:15 pm
Replies: 6
by justjax » Fri Jun 28, 2013 3:45 pm

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Okay so I'm moving and need a much smaller WMC than I have currently. I'm thinking of buying a Lenova IdeaCentre mini PC but I want to have the same recording funtionality as my current WMC PC which has a dual DVB-T2 TV card. Do dual dvb-t2 usb exist? The also comes loaded with Windows 8. I know I...

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There is now a review on Amazon confirming the TBS5280 working with Windows 8. The TBS5280 is £79.99 + £5.13 UK delivery = £85.12

5 STARS: Perfect, does what it says on the box, 25 May 2013

Purchased to use with Zotac Zbox and Windows Media Center on Win8 for always on media player setup.
I...

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Last post by Space2
Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:15 pm
Protected Content and Flickering

Last post by Crash2009 « Thu Jun 27, 2013 3:52 am
Replies: 17
by spyke562 » Fri Jun 07, 2013 6:01 pm

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Hi Everyone,

I have a PCI Ceton turner in my HTPC. I am assuming after a windows update I started getting The video playback device does not support playback of protected content. error message. I get it sometimes when changing the channel but most times when I am coming back to live TV from...

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After years of troublefree service, I have just recently started getting this flickering on one HTPC. dynamic contrast is disabled in CCC. What is interesting is that the flickering reappears, all I have to do is open and close CCC and it goes away for a few days.

This is with an HD6670 - I never...

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Last post by Crash2009
Thu Jun 27, 2013 3:52 am
One TV stations will not record in WMC

Last post by dmagerl « Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:19 pm
Replies: 5
by gwj » Sun Jun 23, 2013 8:56 pm

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I have been using WMC for over three years. I have an outside antenna so I only get about 40 local stations. I bought a HP computer just to use for watching TV - I have two tuners. All the stations come in that should and I am able to record all but two. I can watch the local FOX station but not...

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If the guide contains multiple entries for a station, WMC lumps them all together under the same callsign. Its my guess that the affected station was originally analog ch8 and decided to keep that frequency when they changed to digital. But they then found that ch8 is a pretty poor channel for...

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Last post by dmagerl
Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:19 pm
TBS MOI Streaming Box

Last post by Doddsie « Fri Jun 14, 2013 10:56 am

by Doddsie » Fri Jun 14, 2013 10:56 am

Anyone know of its compatibility with WMC?

best
Doddsie

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Last post by Doddsie
Fri Jun 14, 2013 10:56 am
No Signal Detected - One Channel Only - Records OK

Last post by dmagerl « Thu Jun 13, 2013 2:24 pm
Replies: 7
by aeblank » Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:19 pm

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I have 2 SDHRs connected to a rooftop antenna.

A couple weeks ago, I started getting the 'no signal detected' error on my strongest channel and it's sub-channel. I can tune it fine using SD's quick viewer. This happens on two different instances of WMC. Also, it is happening to my brother, who is...

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The channel numbers are shown with the sources. All you have to do is uncheck the ones you cant receive. They're grouped by channel so its going to be either the first 4 get unchecked or the last 4.

WMC really goofs up these kind of stations. Here in Chicago, WLS had two frequencies which caused...

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Last post by dmagerl
Thu Jun 13, 2013 2:24 pm
How can I get the Tuner salad download?

Last post by digginthis « Wed Jun 12, 2013 2:13 am
Replies: 4
by digginthis » Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:46 pm

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I donated and got a link to the download....but the download dosen't work for me. All I get is an error.....help...please.

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Thanks for your quick reply and sending me what I needed.

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Wed Jun 12, 2013 2:13 am
Quad or Dual tuner OTA - USA

Last post by barnabas1969 « Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:50 pm
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by werds » Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:04 pm

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Ok, so I am happy with my Ceton InfiniTV, although I used to have 8 tuners I sold one because Comcast was getting silly with the fees. I dusted off some older ATI HD650's that I had and shoved those into the HTPC as well.

That is fine and dandy as they can pull down OTA and ClearQAM...but it means...

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One ota 1/2 hour show (news) for me is 4GB. How does cable compare?
About the same either way for me. My cable company doesn't re-compress the OTA signals. Some cable companies do.

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Last post by barnabas1969
Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:50 pm
Random channels showing up?

Last post by drtdiver « Tue Jun 11, 2013 2:59 pm
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by werds » Sat Apr 20, 2013 9:51 pm

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I might be wrong and maybe the channel has been there all along but last night I suddenly noticed a channel that I had not seen before on my channel guide. I have Comcast and a mixture of InfiniTV4 with a handful of HD650 ATI clearqam tuners. Now one of the oddities is that on the Cable Card one of...

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ok, thanks. I was hoping they might have given you some information on what they were planning for with clearQAM. the ones I spoke with either don't know or can't say. one actually tried to tell me the direct cable signal without a box was 480p.

Its misinformation like this that makes me wonder...

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Tue Jun 11, 2013 2:59 pm
Committed to Prime? or is InfiniTV 6 ETH an upgrade?

Last post by signcarver « Sat Jun 08, 2013 11:03 pm
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by T Rush » Fri Jun 07, 2013 4:51 pm

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over the years, I used many PC TV turner cards...then I got a HDHomeRun Dual network tuner ...loved it, and its still in use today, I use it for standard def basic cable channels for our WiFi devices....but then two turners just weren't enough, and I wanted HD channels, so I jumped on a Prime soon...

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As you stated, it was the specific file you submitted... unless you recorded both the ceton and the prime at the same time, using the same software/settings (possibly even on the same machine to be sure settings are the same) for identical files (not a re-airing later), what you are claiming has no...

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Last post by signcarver
Sat Jun 08, 2013 11:03 pm
Possible to show multiple feeds at the same time?

Last post by foxwood « Wed Jun 05, 2013 10:36 pm
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by wackychimp » Fri May 17, 2013 5:42 pm

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The new Ceton 6 tuner looks enticing and I'd love to be able to be able to watch all 6 tuners at once (ok maybe just 4) during March Madness and other sports-heavy times. It'd be great to turn the home theater into a sports bar type of feel by projecting multiple games.

Is there any way to do...

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As kp4akb mentions above, getting 4 videos on a single screen at once isn't that difficult, though it obviously only make sense for videos that don't need sound.

VLC can access live Video streams, and some people in the XBMC community have used the Linux drivers for the Ceton InfiniTV to create...

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Last post by foxwood
Wed Jun 05, 2013 10:36 pm
Fed up of DVB-T2 whats the best DVB-S2 card

Last post by bobbob « Fri May 24, 2013 3:41 pm
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by vila2k » Fri May 17, 2013 2:58 pm

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Im in the uk and was looking for some advice

Having lived with a black gold DVB-T2 card since release Ive had enough of the hit and miss reception and lack of proper 5.1 I get on the HD channels.

I was thinking of trying a DVB-S2 card as my block has twin outlets for sky in each room. Am I also...

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tbs6984 quad dvbs2 has served me very well since replacing 2 happauge nova's and 2 HVR440's. Nothing bad to say about any of them but obviously replacing 4 cards with 1 was a bit of a result

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Fri May 24, 2013 3:41 pm
Any Way To Give One PC Tuner Priority Over A Second PC With

Last post by barnabas1969 « Fri May 17, 2013 7:51 pm
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by leebo » Sat May 11, 2013 9:25 pm

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We have two PC's, sharing one HDHR Prime tuner.
PC1 is accessed with an Xbox 360 as an extender. PC2 is connected directly to a display in my sisters bedroom.

My sister is developmentally disabled, and I have been unsuccessful in teaching her to not record everything under the sun (she usually...

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Ah, I didn't know that your MoCa device had a pass-through outlet. Yeah, that should work OK. MoCa and the TA are on two different frequencies at opposite ends of the spectrum (the TA uses a low frequency, and MoCa uses a high frequency). They shouldn't interfere with each other.

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Fri May 17, 2013 7:51 pm
What do you do when your tuners lock you into a provider?

Last post by blueiedgod « Wed May 15, 2013 5:04 pm
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by JTScribe » Tue Mar 19, 2013 6:02 pm
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I've had Comcast for almost 9 years now. I'm ambivalent about their level of service. It's adequate (for the price I've been paying). So my bill today has a much higher rate than what I've budgeted for. I called and tried to negotiate a lower rate and was actually chided a bit by the rep - We can't...

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Depending on what you watch/record, OTA is also an option. Then, after a short stint with OTA, you become new customer to your cable provider. :-)

Are you quoting actual pricing or promotional? I don't doubt that triple may save a few bucks if packaged and purchased properly but free is free. I...
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Last post by blueiedgod
Wed May 15, 2013 5:04 pm
Question About How MC "sees" Tuners

Last post by staknhalo « Mon May 13, 2013 8:17 pm
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by CablefreeMe » Mon May 13, 2013 8:07 pm

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So I picked up a used Hauppauge 950Q from eBay. Right now I'm using it for ATSC and it works great. I'm thinking about getting cable just for football season so my wife doesn't kill me. So that means 4 months of basic cable. My question has to do with tuner setup in MC. As I'm walked through the...

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So I picked up a used Hauppauge 950Q from eBay. Right now I'm using it for ATSC and it works great. I'm thinking about getting cable just for football season so my wife doesn't kill me. So that means 4 months of basic cable. My question has to do with tuner setup in MC. As I'm walked through the...

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Last post by staknhalo
Mon May 13, 2013 8:17 pm
Need help choosing a device

Last post by sethm1 « Fri May 03, 2013 5:45 pm
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by sethm1 » Wed May 01, 2013 3:23 am
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Windows 7 Home Premium

I can connect any of the following by actual ethernet cable or wireless.

Wonder what research 'you' did that may help me decide between:

Silcon HomeRun Prime
Belkin @TV Plus
Happaugue (?) Broadway

Thanks

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No did not try any digitalis.
On the plus side was more than when I hooked up an antenna last year.
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Fri May 03, 2013 5:45 pm
MCE Channel Mapping Craziness - help!!

Last post by danny6869 « Thu May 02, 2013 6:01 pm

by danny6869 » Thu May 02, 2013 6:01 pm

I need to start off by saying that I have been using Windows Media Center since the beginning...since windows xp windows media center edition , and at one point or another I have seen just about every problem known to MCE. LATELY however, since getting my Dual Hauppauge Colossus setup working, I...

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Thu May 02, 2013 6:01 pm
2250 no longer tunes QAM channels

Last post by sfshank « Sun Apr 28, 2013 1:34 am
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by staknhalo » Tue Apr 02, 2013 5:02 pm

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My cable co recently just went all QAM. The 2x 2250s (in seperate machines) I have won't tune the channels though -through the WinTV app or through WMC (and I ran a rescan in both). WinTV will pick up the channels - but won't tune them - almost as if they're encrypted. But my TV's physical QAM...

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I discovered the same problem but think it is more complicated than just the 2250. I have two HTPC's, one with 2250 tuners, the other with HDHomeRun and they both have the same problem; for example, they detect CBS but miss ABC, NBC, Fox and PBS when scanning in WMC. The HTCP with the HDHomeRun...

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Last post by sfshank
Sun Apr 28, 2013 1:34 am
Moving from the US to Ireland

Last post by tony_park « Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:24 pm
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by sshirley » Tue Apr 16, 2013 1:48 pm
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Discussions about UK/US/EU cable and satellite solutions in MC is here:

Hi everyone,

I live in the US and have the opportunity to move to Ireland later this year. I am very excited about it! Of course, one of the few things that I am bringing with me is my media center!

About 1.5 years ago I...

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tony, i don't believe sky are going to replace all our receivers. i saw the post of avforums and i don't expect to see anything change, Sky would have to issue new boxes free of charge to all subscribers and there's no way they would do that. they may introduce a new box over time but we know...
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Last post by tony_park
Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:24 pm
Cable and Satellite in Media Center chat - UK vs US vs Euro

Last post by barnabas1969 « Thu Apr 25, 2013 8:39 pm
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by barnabas1969 » Mon Apr 22, 2013 7:46 pm

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Topic split from original thread here:

Are the HD Sky boxes leased, or purchased outright when you sign up for service?

Also, does the decryption of the stream actually happen inside the DVB-S2 PCIe tuner card? In other words, it sounds as if the DreamBox does nothing except to pass encryption...

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We probably should split this topic so that this thread only contains information that would be helpful to sshirley in his/her move to Ireland, and a new topic contains comparisons between US/UK/EU cable/satellite providers and methods of getting content into Media Center.

That said, I did a quick...

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Last post by barnabas1969
Thu Apr 25, 2013 8:39 pm
Using TV Card and InfiniTV4 together

Last post by avmike « Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:46 pm
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by EverydayDiesel » Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:24 pm

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I have a HauppaugeTV-HVR-2250 and a Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe.
My question is, will i be able to setup both of these in windows media center? Does it put it all on one tv guide or are they seperate?

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I have this same setup. Merge the channels, and specify the 2250 as the preferred tuner for the ClearQAM channels (assume NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, etc...). This will free up the cablecard tuners for the channels that require it. It really works very seamlessly.

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Last post by avmike
Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:46 pm
Multiple HD-PVRs with WMC

Last post by barnabas1969 « Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:08 pm
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by wolfie99 » Wed Apr 24, 2013 4:43 pm

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Hi There, I'm an old SageTV guy moving back to Media Center. In my old Sage setup, I had a couple satellite set top boxes controlled by 2 HD-PVR's. I would like to do the same with with Media Center. I have a single HD-PVR controlling a single satellite set top box. Works fine. My question is how...

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This topic has come up several times in the past. The user named Venom51 has replied in the past with specifics. You might try searching for his posts on this subject.

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Last post by barnabas1969
Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:08 pm
TBS 6981 audio and video not synchronised

Last post by fobos8 « Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:31 am
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by fobos8 » Sat Apr 20, 2013 3:12 pm

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Hi all

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this.... but here we go..

I'm having some problems watching live TV. Audio and video are not synchronised. The video apears to lag behind the audio very slightly. Viewing is not a pleasant experience. I notice this when people are talking as...

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Looks like I've got this sorted.

As suggested by barnabas1969 I tried to find a way of adjusting the sound card's audio output. There is a setting called latency which adjusted the size of the buffer. The higher the latency or buffer the more of a delay there is on the audio. Delaying the audio...

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Last post by fobos8
Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:31 am
WMC Live TV is Choppy

Last post by tony_park « Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:38 am
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by txsfireman » Fri Apr 19, 2013 2:56 am

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WMC has started playing and recording live tv very choppy. I tried it in WinTV and it works fine. All other functions of WMC seem to be working fine. I have turned off windows defender and run several maleware/adware removal programs along with my antivirus software (kaspersky). It has been working...

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Do you have a url for the tuner details for us to review - I can't see much in the way of details for Hauppauge WinTV-7164.

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Last post by tony_park
Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:38 am
Having trouble with Hauppauge DCR-2650 remote

Last post by barnabas1969 « Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:27 pm
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by defl8ed » Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:19 am

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Decided to build a HTPC for my parents out of an old computer I had sitting in a closet. It already had Windows 7 on it and I have another PC I was already using a DCR-2650 on with no issues so I decided to use the same setup for them. Got the unit up and working and the card activated with no...

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Why are you trying to install the Hauppauge IR service? If you have an eHome transceiver, then no additional software is required for the remote to work.

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Last post by barnabas1969
Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:27 pm
Using two OCUR tuners + Tuning Adapter

Last post by mattiedread « Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:17 pm
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by mattiedread » Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:23 pm

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I have a single Cisco TA + an HD HR Prime hooked up right now. I just received my Ceton card back from them and plan on installing it tomorrow, picked up a second cable card today.

1. Can I split the signal coming out of the TA and put one to the Ceton and the other to the SD HR Prime?

2. When I...

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Just finished testing 7 HDCP channels recording, worked. Did get the second the second TA as per erkotz. Thanks everyone. I just popped the Ceton back in an hour ago - came back with Beta firmware loaded and I think (not sure) it handles one of my prior peeves... that is the tuner used to stay...

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Last post by mattiedread
Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:17 pm
Sound problems with Leadtek DTV2000DS in WMC

Last post by seanay00 « Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:53 am
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by seanay00 » Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:07 am

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Im having a few issues with watching live TV in WMC. I'm using a leadtek DTV2000DS capture card and a nvidia GT430 graphics card. When I first go to watch live TV the picture is really choppy for about 5 secs then smooths out, and sometimes the sound skips and plays a 1 second grab over and over....

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anyone got any ideas why this card is havn issues with WMC???

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Last post by seanay00
Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:53 am
Problem watching sports with TBS6981

Last post by fobos8 « Mon Apr 01, 2013 5:34 pm
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by fobos8 » Sun Mar 17, 2013 10:31 am
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Hi all

I recently started using the following setup;

TBS6981, Windows Media Centre, Windows 7, 12GB RAM, I7 processor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX660 graphics.

System requirements are surely met.

Watching the majority of TV is great but watching football is no fun at all. When the ball is kicked it...

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Good news!!

Have watched some football today using the Saphire AMD 6570 HD graphics card instead of the onboard Intel 4000 HD graphics. I have to say its really good - far better than using the Intel graphics and slightly better quality than using a set top box. The inevitable blurring from camera...
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Mon Apr 01, 2013 5:34 pm
ATI DCT - USB - Use w/o a card?

Last post by mattiedread « Sat Mar 30, 2013 3:09 pm
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by mattiedread » Sat Mar 23, 2013 2:51 pm

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I have two of these collecting dust. I just returned the S cable cards to CableVision as I've been using a Ceton PCIe for a year now. I have to send the Ceton card back for a memory replacement and I tried getting one of the ATI to work without a card. It ran through the set up fine, but, can't...

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Thanks - I'll probably be giving it a try.... I'm currently in tuner heck. My Ceton is going back today (they agreed to take it back because when I was posting to troubleshoot it was under warranty - so, they RMA'd me... that's good). I ordered a Silicon Dust to hold me over, wanted to give it a...

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Last post by mattiedread
Sat Mar 30, 2013 3:09 pm
Hauppauge Colossus Stutters during WMC Launch

Last post by TMan459 « Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:37 am
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by Spacen » Sat Mar 02, 2013 8:44 pm

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I have not been able to find anyone online mention a problem similar to mine so I will post here in the hopes that someone can give me some ideas I haven't already tried. I appreciate your help in advance.

I have had everything setup and working well for several months with the exception of a...

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I know this is a late response, but are you using optical audio? Or are you running stereo RCA along with component video? I had similar issues while using optical audio when I had my Colossus. Had to get it repaired to fix the issue.

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Last post by TMan459
Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:37 am
HDHomerun Prime vs infiniTV USB Tuner?

Last post by olyteddy « Fri Mar 29, 2013 3:48 am
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by docluv01 » Thu Feb 28, 2013 3:02 am

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anyone using hdhomerun prime with a dual core atom PC?

I have the infinitv usb, and although it works well, ive recently been interested in sharing tuners with other PC in teh house, to be viewed on big screens.

mysetup is as follows:
CPU Integrated Intel Atom D2700 2.13 GHz Dual-Core
Chipset...

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Running Win8 Media Center on an Acer Aspire R3610 (2 core Atom, ION graphiccs, 4GB Ram) and the actual playback is fine. The UI stuff is a bit slow and shaky though.

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Last post by olyteddy
Fri Mar 29, 2013 3:48 am
Satellite Channels not visible with Hauppauge Nova S+

Last post by Giuseppe Chillemi « Sat Mar 23, 2013 1:41 pm
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by Giuseppe Chillemi » Fri Mar 22, 2013 7:34 pm

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Hi,
I have an Hauppauge Nova S+ and Windows 7 64Bit Ultimate.

I have a problem: most of the configured channels are not visible in my WMC.

During configuration I have selected the Satellite (HotBird 13E , here Italy), the Universal LNB and Start a scan for All Transponders.

The result is...

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take a look at dvblink its an extra expense but it will solve your problems

I have already found this product after an extensive search inside the board but it is not what I want.

I whish to understand what is happening here and maybe wrote some code to solve id.

The main questions I have are:...

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Last post by Giuseppe Chillemi
Sat Mar 23, 2013 1:41 pm
Error code: 0xC0040524

Last post by werds « Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:27 am
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by werds » Wed Nov 28, 2012 3:41 am

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So what is this error in general or specific? My google-fu was too weak and a quick search of the forum brought up this post by Eric

Last night I saw the first blue screen in a long time on the HTPC, windows just called it a general unknown failure. I rebooted and all seemed well until tonight I...

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Removed the tuner that was causing the error to pop. Other than WMC complaining about the missing tuner recordings worked fine without the previous error message... but now I am too lazy to test if it was that particular tuner or just a pcie slot or software/driver issues :(

Well had the error...

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Last post by werds
Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:27 am
Deleting a tuner source ?

Last post by holidayboy « Tue Mar 19, 2013 1:42 pm
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by Mike88 » Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:02 am

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ABC7 in Chicago was transmitting on VHF7 & UHF44. But at noon on 3-18-2013 they stopped VHF7.

I have 4 OTA tuners & all were listed twice under sources, with Ch 7 listed 4 times first then Ch 44 listed 4 times. I thought with Ch 7 gone that the Ch 44 sources would have automatically kicked in. But...

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Just to confirm what I meant:

In the edit sources menu, click on split for the sources you want to get rid of (delete).

This will remove those sources from the edit sources menu for that channel, and insert a new (in your case unwanted) channel in the guide - this new channel will only have the...

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Last post by holidayboy
Tue Mar 19, 2013 1:42 pm
WinTV-DCR 2650 takes 5 min to initialize after cold boot

Last post by nervustwitch « Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:24 pm
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by nervustwitch » Fri Mar 15, 2013 4:43 am

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I am currently running WMC7 and a WinTV-DCR 2650.
Everything works good but one issue.If I start my HTPC from a cold boot my tuner will not kick in for about 5mins or so.All I get is this:
Viewing or listening conflict
No tuner to satisfy the current request.
After that its fine.

Now if I put it...

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I have tried other USB ports,but didnt think to unplug all others since the only other item being used is a keyboard w/touchpad.I'll try it.

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Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:24 pm
Hauppauge PVR-2 Not Detected?

Last post by foxwood « Mon Mar 18, 2013 8:20 pm
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by ScFour » Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:48 pm

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Windows7 (x86) shows in the device manager that I have an Hauppauge PVR2 (gaming edition) connected to my USB port. However, Windows Media Center does not show this as a TV card .

I can run the bundled Happauge software, and it shows my TV signal streaming through it to the TV. That tells me...

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It looks like Hauppauge isn't supporting this device with Windows Media Center -
(Hauppauge isn't supplying the drivers that WMC would need to recognize the device)

It's noticeable that the Third Party apps list for the HD PVR specifically mentions WMC, but the Third Party apps list for the HD...

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Last post by foxwood
Mon Mar 18, 2013 8:20 pm
Recently Lost Channels - Troubleshooting

Last post by Doctor Feelgood « Sat Mar 16, 2013 2:17 am
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by Doctor Feelgood » Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:53 pm

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I have a pair of HD Homerun Primes that have been about perfect since I installed them last year. No real problems to mention.

I recently started noticing macroblocking and audio issues on some channels - all of which are non-HD - and now some of them are unable to be tuned at all on one Prime,...

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Knock on wood - this may be fixed.

Removed the outdoor splitter where I am unsure what the two extra legs were for... terminated the unused leg on the splitter at the HD Primes / cable modem... replaced the older / wimpy cables from the splitter to the HD Primes... ran the Primes network cables...

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Sat Mar 16, 2013 2:17 am
Activation Required Error

Last post by foxwood « Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:04 am
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by tangoTV » Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:22 am

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I have a HD homerun Prime and Windows 7 Ultimate N ...

It took a lot to get the cable card working but it was working great for 4 weeks. Now i get random errors Activation Required' asking for Activation of Digital cable device or Windows?

I have re-run the DCA many times and windows is also...

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They said that is was impossible to desperate IE from windows XP.

The N versions ship without Windows Media Player, IE is still there.

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Last post by foxwood
Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:04 am
Tuner Priority?

Last post by docluv01 « Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:21 am
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by docluv01 » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:19 am

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Hey guys,

Question regarding tuner priority in WMC.

I have (2) HDHomerun Prime's, I have 2 questions:

1) I have 3 PC's on my home LAN. 2 of them only allow 4 tuners, but the 3rd actually allowed 6. Not sure what I did that enabled this, is there a setting somewhere that allows windows to do...

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Thanks, i bit the bullet and bought tunersalad

thanks again guys!

The old (free) version of Tuner Salad would enable 8 tuners. I still have a copy of it, but I don't know if it's OK to post it. I've read that there are registry hacks that accomplish the same thing, but I'm not sure if those work...

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Last post by docluv01
Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:21 am
Hauppauge 2250, Time Warner all digitial now

Last post by staknhalo « Wed Mar 06, 2013 10:28 pm
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by xelrash » Wed Mar 06, 2013 10:11 pm

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I searched but can not find a resolution to a new issue I have. Time Warner just stopped broadcasting Analog channels and went all digitial in my area.
I have spent a few days trying to get my 2250 back in working order with no luck. When just scan for channels with the digital tuners I get no...

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Oh wow, thanks!

It's been working fine for digital and analog for years :(

On my provider it never picked up any QAM channels - I've always had to manually enter them. Another plus of going the Hauppage WinTV route is you can configure it to stream TV to you Android/iOS devices, even when not at...

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Last post by staknhalo
Wed Mar 06, 2013 10:28 pm
Sound from only one speaker?

Last post by Ransaap « Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:24 pm
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by Ransaap » Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:09 pm

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Hi all.

I use a Cinergy T Video USB stick on a Win 7 x64 system with an analog cable signal.
It all works pretty good, but while watching TV I only get sound out of my right speaker.
When testing in the setup both speakers work fine.
Anyone have any ideas what can cause this?

Thanks,

Paul

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I've tested the signal on my tv, switched from the digital receiver to analog and there I have stereo sound.
It seems the speakers on my PC are switched, so it only produces sound from what should be the left speaker.
I assume it could have something to do with mono settings then? Can't find...

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Last post by Ransaap
Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:24 pm
2 x ATI 750 - How to determine which one is PCIe or USB?

Last post by wayne1935 « Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:20 pm
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by wayne1935 » Thu Feb 28, 2013 8:04 pm

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I have an ATI 750 PCIe tuner and a ATI 750 USB tuner in a machine with Win 7 (64) MCE. Both tuners are found in setup and record but are listed only as ATI #1 and ATI #2.

Is there any way to determine which is the PCIe card and the USB device?

Wayne

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Go to Tasks--->Settings-->TV-->TV Signal-->Digital Tuner Diagnostics. Select a tuner, then select Digital Tuner Diagnostics again. The type of connection should be displayed. I am not sure if these steps work with a non-CableCard tuner, but it is worth a try.

Scallica,

None of my tuners are...

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Last post by wayne1935
Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:20 pm
Channel guide for a non-digital box?

Last post by foxwood « Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:12 pm
Replies: 8
by watts3000 » Thu Feb 28, 2013 10:11 pm

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Guys I just got done installing my hdhome run and from the looks of things I will need to manually configure channels. My question is is there anywhere that puts out a channel guide for cable users that are not using a digital box this would be very helpful?

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I myself am having issues lately and I'm ready to omit QAM sooner than later. Don't worry, your cale-co will probably elimiate QAM for you, sooner or later anyway!

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Last post by foxwood
Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:12 pm
Tuner 1 Not Available

Last post by Crash2009 « Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:29 pm
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by Crash2009 » Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:45 am

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I can't beleive it! Intel system labs software knocked out one of my four Infini4 tuners. I was trying to print some crap from Office 2010 the other day. An error popped up in Action Center and asked if I wanted to solve it. Being the tidy kind of guy that I am, I clicked ok and was taken to Didn't...

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Lesson:

Don't use your DVR for other tasks :-) Yeah I guess so. Looks like I'm building another one (dedicated DVR) this year.

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Last post by Crash2009
Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:29 pm
Picking out my first tuner for WMC and other concerns

Last post by Mike88 « Mon Feb 25, 2013 5:27 pm
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by watts3000 » Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:16 pm

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Guys as of right now we have a basic cable tv package soon I plan on moving to over the air I just have not got around to installing a roof antenna yet. I have two Windows 7 media center computers and I want to start using them for the tv functions mainly the DVR and tv guide. So with that said...

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I don't use My Channel Logos, even though it is inexpensive, or any other extra guide software. I don't know if you can change the channel number.

All OTA channels use a decimal point & I just accept this because that's their official number. For example, NBC by me was channel 5 in the old analog...

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Last post by Mike88
Mon Feb 25, 2013 5:27 pm
Hauppauge Colossus & 2250 IR Blasting Issue

Last post by cadams8221218 « Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:18 am
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by Ape » Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:31 pm

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Hey guys,

I've been running a combination of the Colossus (Directv) and a 2250 (OTA) since the former released. I do not use any third party applications, just the Hauppauge software to run in Win 7 MC.

Here's the issue. If I install the Colossus per instructions I can get everything to work...

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so what ir blaster and ir emmiter r u using, the one that came with the colossus? i have been trying to use my exetrnal hp one but the third party app that i have to use to set it up freezes and i cant complete the setup!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyway i have a colossus along with a comcast pace cable box and...

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Last post by cadams8221218
Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:18 am
QAM channels with long sub channels

Last post by barnabas1969 « Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:07 pm
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by mhunterdts » Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:34 pm

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In my area Comcast has decided to mess with the lineup again (California 95124). I'm trying to add a channel 32.8746 but windows MCE only allows 3 digit sub channels. MCE has found some listings that have 4 subchannels, but won't allow me to manually edit it. Any thoughts?
In the HD HOME RUN setup...

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Guide Tool.

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Last post by barnabas1969
Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:07 pm
Satellite transponder scan

Last post by sorethumbs « Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:51 pm

by sorethumbs » Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:51 pm

Can the settings for WMC satellite transponder scans be changed so that it will automatically include frequencies that currently have to be done manually.

And while I'm on how do you 'add' a tuner without resetting everything in WMC - I have a TBS6981 dvb-s2 all set up how I want and want to add a...

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Last post by sorethumbs
Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:51 pm
Mass tuner priority change

Last post by danny6869 « Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:43 pm

by danny6869 » Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:43 pm

I am having a really hard time with tuner priority. By default,no matter what order i add the tuners in, the ordering in MCE is always backwards from the way I need it.

Is there any way to change tuner priority en-mass???

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Last post by danny6869
Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:43 pm
UK - TV Tuner Card for SKY

Last post by wmc2012 « Thu Feb 14, 2013 6:19 pm

by wmc2012 » Thu Feb 14, 2013 6:19 pm

Can anyone recommend a low profile TV Tuner Card for SKY TV in the UK?

My trusty old PC is on its way out (7 years nearly) and I'm looking to purchase a Proliant N40L and stick Windows 7 on it, so would need a low profile card.

Currently I have an old SKY Digital box (not even SKY+) where I...

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Last post by wmc2012
Thu Feb 14, 2013 6:19 pm
Tuner used in recordings

Last post by wayne1935 « Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:30 am
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by wayne1935 » Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:06 pm

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One of our computers has several tuners in it for recording cable QAM using WMC. Every once in awhile a show fails to record or there is some fault in the recording.

Is there a way to tell which tuner was used in a given recording so I can do something with the offending tuner?

I have the same...

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Thanx, foxwood.

That works. I've looked at the History before but never checked the details.

Wayne

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Last post by wayne1935
Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:30 am
Internal Dual tuner plus USB tuner

Last post by meitis « Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:32 pm

by meitis » Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:32 pm

I have a system set up with an internal Hauppage dual tuner card and a Mohu leaf indoors antenna. This setup pulls most of my stations in quite well. The station towers are generally within five miles of my residence. However, one of these stations seems to cut out quite a bit.

The system that I...

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Last post by meitis
Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:32 pm
Kworld UB435-Q

Last post by moniker « Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:31 pm
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by moniker » Fri Jan 25, 2013 5:15 pm

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Hi, I am a nooby here so thanks for the help.

WMC works perfectly for a while with my USB tuner but then seems to randomly loose its connection to the tuner. It tells me there is no signal and will not tune to another station until I reboot the computer and thereby reset WIN7, WMC, the drivers and...

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neither of mine came with usb cables. I normally just plug them in. but I have also used cables too. Same results no matter what I do. So I have thrown in the towel and bot a homerun. I'll see how that does.

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Last post by moniker
Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:31 pm
Great reception on laptop, bad on HTPC

Last post by millrbrew « Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:33 pm
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by millrbrew » Sun Feb 03, 2013 3:27 am

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I am experiencing a very odd problem. I have an HTPC with a TVW750USB tv tuner with rabbit ears hooked up. I've had issues with PBS and ABC in WMC for several years and am constantly adjusting the antenna. I've tried the MOHU Leaf and recently an amplified Terk indoor antenna too. I figured it was...

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Crash, I tried all the laptop USB ports and they all seem to get great reception.

However, I took dmagerl's suggestion of using a usb extension cord to position the tuner further from the HTPC, and receptions seems vastly improved. It's still not as perfect as with the laptop, but much improved,...

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Last post by millrbrew
Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:33 pm
Multiple Source over same COAX tuning

Last post by barnabas1969 « Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:03 pm
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by blueiedgod » Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:30 pm

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So, for the last few years we had a combination of CableCard (ATI DCT's originally, then Ceton InfiniTV4) for encrypted TV tuning, and ClearQAM tuners (4x Magyka originally, then 2x SiliconDust HomeRun duals) for unencrypted TV tuning in WMC.

We have Verizon FiOS, which broadcasts local channels...

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Each amplifier will have a different amount of attenuation in the reverse direction, but there will be at least some leakage back through the amp. There's a high probability that it will degrade your cable signal enough that you won't want to do this. Also, I'm fairly certain that the leakage will...

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Last post by barnabas1969
Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:03 pm
infiniTV + HDHomeRun on network

Last post by olyteddy « Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:22 am
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by Malo » Sat Jan 26, 2013 3:42 pm

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Hi folks, I've been a HTPC user for a few years now. Combining my infiniTV + WMC + WHS for watching recordings from any PC. Also stream a lot of media from my WHS on lots of devices in XBMC.

So I've built another HTPC to replace my cable box in the basement and I also like to be able to watch TV...

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The Prime does not assign a tuner until requested so yes, you have three tuners to distribute any way you want (it's automatic and on demand), and at $140 shipped it is a bargain.

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Last post by olyteddy
Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:22 am
Best USB Satellite Tuner card DVB-S2 Required

Last post by bobbob « Fri Jan 25, 2013 12:27 pm
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by masonstorm1979 » Thu Jan 24, 2013 2:41 pm

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I am looking to purchase a third TV tuner card for media center / DVBLink. I have no further capacity within my PC so I am looking for an external tuner. I normally buy Hauppauge but its slim pickings with this manufacturer which is a shame because the kit is excellent. I only need a single feed...

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shame they don't do one with multiple inputs. i like my tbs quad dvbs2 card though so hardware should be ok

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Last post by bobbob
Fri Jan 25, 2013 12:27 pm
1st timer needing some assistance

Last post by LuckyDay « Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:31 am
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by radi4fun » Fri Jan 18, 2013 4:08 pm
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Hi guys, I was thinking of doing HTPC for my room/house. I just realized that I pay way too much for Internet and cable tv. Time Warner cable is charging me $160/mo for their digital 200 channels and their slowest cable Internet that's I think 10down/ 1up.

I was thinking of going with some basic...

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Isn't it actually illegal for them to require you to have a set top box instead of just a cable card? I'm pretty sure that's the case.
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Last post by LuckyDay
Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:31 am
Hauppauge WinTV HVR-950q & KNTV NBC on Comcast Oakland CA

Last post by sfniceguy « Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:57 am
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by sfniceguy » Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:22 pm

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I am not able to find the digital QAM channel for the local NBC station KNTV on the Comcast Oakland CA system, only the analog version of it. The other TV's with digital tuners in my house are able to find it as 11.1 -- but my Hauppauge WinTV HVR-950q cannot find it at that number. Anyone else run...

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I am not able to find the digital QAM channel for the local NBC station KNTV on the Comcast Oakland CA system, only the analog version of it. The other TV's with digital tuners in my house are able to find it as 11.1 -- but my Hauppauge WinTV HVR-950q cannot find it at that number. Anyone else run...

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Last post by sfniceguy
Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:57 am
Record Sequential Shows on Same Channel with 4 Tuners

Last post by hakamarob « Sat Jan 12, 2013 11:07 pm
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by tsbgfk » Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:00 pm

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I have a four tuner set-up (two Hauppauge 2250s on Win7 Home Premium box). When I have back-to-back programs set to record on the same channel, they are always recorded with the same tuner (thus losing some of the beginning of the next program) even though other tuners are available.

Not sure if...

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Here's more information to setup a scheduled task to update your system time whenever your PC wakes from sleep:

Barnabas, you are the man. Thanks

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Last post by hakamarob
Sat Jan 12, 2013 11:07 pm
Hauppauge introduces the HD PVR 2 video recorder

Last post by slowbiscuit « Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:52 pm
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by STC » Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:57 pm

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Compatible with MC win7 and win8.

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No HDCP stripping, which mean no recording of protected channels... Fail.

Seriously? They're a mainline PC component manufacturer that doesn't want to get sued or have their stuff confiscated by Customs, not some grey-market Chinese vendor. Use component or don't buy it.

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Last post by slowbiscuit
Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:52 pm
Recording HD TV in Canada from STB signal

Last post by barnabas1969 « Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:56 pm
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by pepper579 » Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:22 pm
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So my current WMC computer has died :cry: and I have decided to build a new one. I am updating everything and want to be able to watch AND record HD TV in Canada. I will have an HD set top box for either cable or satellite, I don't care which. So I will be recording what comes through my STB and so...

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I had an instructor once who said that everything in electronics works on the smoke theory . Once you let the smoke out, it stops working!
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Last post by barnabas1969
Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:56 pm
Diamond TV Wonder 750 PCIe

Last post by tikiman1 « Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:18 am
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by up_all_night » Sun Dec 09, 2012 8:12 pm

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My Tv Wonder 750PCIe was working until an update failed to install correctly.

Compro Technology, Inc. - Other hardware, Streaming Media and Broadcast Devices - ATI Unified AVStream Driver

Installation date: ‎12/‎8/‎2012 11:55 AM

Installation status: Failed

Error details: Code 80070103...

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Rule #1 with an HTPC. Turn off Automatic Updates in Windows. Do manual updates only so that if an update messes up your system you know which one does it. Also, concerning drivers, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

You need to turn off automatic updates in Windows Updates in Windows 7. Go into...

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Last post by tikiman1
Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:18 am
Tuner for Non-DVR use

Last post by blueiedgod « Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:34 pm
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by Sagarious » Fri Nov 09, 2012 3:19 pm

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I am new to the entire HTPC and CableCard/Tuner world. I have what I would think would be a common situation that many of the users here may have the answer whether it is possible or not.

I am a Comcast customer, and I despise the DTA box and remote that is required at every secondary TV in the...

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Just set up HTPC with WMC7 and windows Media Center Extenders

Linksys Media Center extenders come with programmable universal remote, so that solves your 1 remote need.

Don't use record button and that solves your no DVR needed requirement.

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Last post by blueiedgod
Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:34 pm
Enslaved! - WMC wants to configure all of my tuners

Last post by blueiedgod « Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:22 pm
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by thenmen » Tue Jan 01, 2013 4:56 pm

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I have two Tuner cards (Hauppauge 1800 & 1850) in my Windows 7 PC . During the setup process of the TV signal, windows 7 media center finds both cards and takes possession of both. I want WMC to utilize only one card for use at home and use the second card for streaming live TV to my work laptop...

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I am pretty sure that if you go through manual set up, rather than automated, you can uncheck the tuners that you don't want WMC to use.

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Last post by blueiedgod
Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:22 pm
Channel changing woes - SOLVED

Last post by rldev « Thu Dec 27, 2012 8:37 pm

by rldev » Thu Dec 27, 2012 8:37 pm

Well chalk this one up as to one I haven't experienced. I have media center 7 64bit with both a hd homerun and a Ceton Infinitv4. The homerun is set as the primary for local network channels. I merged the qam channels to my Fios designated channels(502, 504, 507, 509, 510, 511, 513). The problem I...

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Last post by rldev
Thu Dec 27, 2012 8:37 pm
Media Center won't properly tune in QAM channels

Last post by DaveJMathews « Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:49 am
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by xanadu » Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:10 pm

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Good morning,

I've recently build out a new quiet Media Center box as my primary media center.

My cable signal has well over 100 clear QAM channels available, when I connect the cable directly to the HDTV tuner it happily scans and finds all of the digital and analog channels. Same thing with the...

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A little pricey but I have used this in some larger houses with long runs.

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Last post by DaveJMathews
Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:49 am
Resetting Tuning Adapter

Last post by soccerdad « Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:47 pm
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by soccerdad » Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:21 pm

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My cable company has been kind of flaky lately (TWC) and the signal has been dropping out some. It appears that when this happens, my tuning adapter for my cable card (it is a Cisco TA) breaks its connection with my HTPC. If this happens, I get the dreaded no signal screen when I tune to a SDV...

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To close this one out, I think the problem is fixed. They burried a new cable to my house, but the problem remained, even with a great signal.

Perhaps divine intervention helped out on this one. I moved the cable card to another computer and it seemed to be stable without disconnects. When I went...

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Last post by soccerdad
Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:47 pm
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 2250 problem

Last post by manni « Wed Dec 19, 2012 3:28 am
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by manni » Sat Dec 15, 2012 2:34 am

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Hi Guys,

I have a brand new build I'm putting together and having issues with the WinTV-HVR 2250. Have installed the card and drivers successfully. I am able to get a picture from my STB on the screen ok.

However, when I try to select the guide or record anything I just get the rotating windows...

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Problem resolved. I was recieving multiple options for Rogers Cable here in the Toronto Canada area. I was selecting the digital option (I think it selects the digital tuner). When I selected just the plain Rogers Cable, everything was fine. Hopefully this can help other users.

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Last post by manni
Wed Dec 19, 2012 3:28 am
Tuner Problem or WMC Problem?

Last post by foxwood « Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:09 am
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by 0Gravity » Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:06 pm

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Hi All,
I just got done typing up a very detailed explanation of my problem but when I went to post
it the website had logged me out, and when I signed back in my post was empty...Errr...so
here is a shortened (Hopefully) version!

I have a HTPC I built 2 years ago which has worked great until...

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:thumbup:

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Last post by foxwood
Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:09 am
Cablecard glitches only on certain channels

Last post by Diverge « Thu Dec 13, 2012 6:51 pm
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by Diverge » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:39 pm

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I've been seeing weird glitches for a while now. I thought maybe they were tuner related, but I recently just picked up a silicondust prime and it still occurs. It happens on both the ceton infinitv 4 and silicondust prime, and is in the recordings, so my conclusion is it's related to the cablecard...

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Well I just confirmed it happens on the cablevision cable box as well. What is weird is it is either show specific or time specific for certain channels. For example, I was checking on shows late last night (some ducky dynasty hick show) and it wasn't doing it. So I figured I would check this...

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Last post by Diverge
Thu Dec 13, 2012 6:51 pm
Problems with Hauppauge HVR-1850 PCIe

Last post by foxwood « Fri Dec 07, 2012 8:57 pm
Replies: 5
by KyleSTL » Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:37 pm

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I have had a Media Center computer for over four years now, and around 6 months ago I started getting random errors when watching TV (and sometimes when recording programs). At first it was only with the analog tuner (Charter Basic and Expanded cable). The audio would become glitchy (cutting out...

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It sounds like I just encouraged you to do what you wanted to do anyway :D

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Last post by foxwood
Fri Dec 07, 2012 8:57 pm
Hauppauge HVR-1600 - No Signal in WMC

Last post by signcarver « Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:25 pm
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by itdontworkright » Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:01 am

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Ok guys im no that great with computers but follow instructions well. I have WMC in windows 7. I have the hvr 1600 which was working in the past with the current set up as well as an avermedia dual tuner. When I scan for a signal the avermediacards are strong but the hvr is spotty and will not tune...

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After many years of use, the analog tuners of both of my main machine's 1600's refuse to work, and I'm lucky to sometimes see a snowy picture. One went out about a year ago and the other about 6 months ago . The digital tuners still work fine and I can also use the svid/composite inputs for use...

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Last post by signcarver
Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:25 pm
Need Help Selecting a Tuner

Last post by red518irish « Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:04 pm
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by red518irish » Wed Nov 28, 2012 5:41 pm

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This is my first post. I have been searching the internet and this board for some help, but have either been unsuccessful or I just don't understand what I am reading. I am building my first PC and am specifically building it to be an HTPC.

My question is about the tuners available. I am trying to...

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I will be using Verizon Fios so I don't think I will need the tuning adapter. I am going to order an HDHRP today or tomorrow I think.
Thanks for the input.

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Last post by red518irish
Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:04 pm
Limited choice of tuners available - any suggestions?

Last post by richard1980 « Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:42 pm
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by xyphocles » Sat Dec 01, 2012 11:42 am

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Hi I am throwing out an old PC & replacing it with a small form factor one that has NO PCI slots. This means my old PCI hauppage winTV has got to go.

I need only:
SD recording from audio/composite video (we have cable tv here, but its a proprietary box so no tuner needed)
IR blasting
**WINDOWS 7...

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There is no separation of compatibility between Windows and WMC. Any TV tuner that is compatible with Windows 7 will work in WMC.

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Last post by richard1980
Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:42 pm
ATI Digital Cable Tuner upgrade firmware

Last post by erkotz « Sat Dec 01, 2012 12:19 am
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by rosegreenb » Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:25 pm

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Hello,

I have two external DCTs (ATI Digital Cable Tuners). One of the tuners I was able to successfully upgrade the firmware to 1.19 (from 1.17) using the MS Digital Cable Advisor

However, when a ran the MS Digital Cable Advisor only one of the tuners upgraded to 1.19. The other tuner still...

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As others have mentioned, the update comes down off WU from the driver install. The DCA has nothing to do with it. This sounds vaguely familiar (second tuner not getting the upgrade), and I *think* the resolution is:
1. Unplug already upgraded tuner
2. Go in device manager, remove (and delete)...

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Last post by erkotz
Sat Dec 01, 2012 12:19 am
Scan for unencrypted QAM with ATI Digital Cable Tuner

Last post by richard1980 « Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:09 am
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by slayer3600 » Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:07 pm

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Is there software to scan for unencrypted QAM channels using the ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner? I know this can be done with the HDHomerun, but I couldn't find conversations about doing this with the ATI Digital Cable Tuner. I'd like to do a scan using my ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner and...

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When you want to rent a compact car but the rental company gives you a full-size instead, they are giving you explicit permission to drive the full-size car. When you pay for internet service only and the cable company delivers TV signals to your home, they are not giving you explicit permission to...

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Last post by richard1980
Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:09 am
Are you losing BGT3650 Tuners?

Last post by mattyc « Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:44 am
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by duncane » Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:47 pm

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If you are, see my experience below. It's only been working for me for 3 hours but I couldn't even get 5 mins of Live TV before this!

See here

Cheers
Ewan

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This is reponse I got form BG support.

There are indeed some outstanding issues with the BGT3650, in some systems. But in the first instance, the issues you state above would be typical of the known problems within Media Center. If you are still having issues once you have checked to 'Sources',...

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Last post by mattyc
Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:44 am
Tuners in use...but not really

Last post by Cup « Sun Nov 04, 2012 4:05 am
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by Jefe » Thu Nov 01, 2012 2:47 am

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So I'm running two HTPCs in two different rooms. They share a HD Homerun via the network, but they each have their own tuner. One is a USB the other an internal PCIe version. The issue is my secondary PC is telling me that all my tuners are in use, but in reality it's only my two HD tuners, the...

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Wierd.
Part of me says re-run TV Setup on that box.

If MC finds a tuner is in-use or not responding, it should fall to the next tuner (and the next, and the next) until it finds a tuner that can tune the channel in question. (but, you already knew this, I'm guessing.)

I had thought that the...

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Last post by Cup
Sun Nov 04, 2012 4:05 am
Which Tuner for UK Freeview & Analog CCTV stream

Last post by Shotup « Sat Nov 03, 2012 2:52 pm
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by amallon » Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:42 pm

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I'm running Win 7 64 Bit 8GB RAM with the OS on an SSD. I have two tuners: WinTV-NOVA-T-500 & WinTV-HVR-1200

I use the HVR-1200 to pickup my CCTV stream which is coming in on an analog channel from a modulator at my aerial. I use the other tuner for watching freeview.

I'm getting quite frustrated...

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Hi
I have just rejoined The Green Button after a year out so apologies for not answering sooner

I assume by now that you have lost analog TV from your transmitter

I am running 2 media centers both with BlackGold BGT3650 Quad tuners both on Biostar A75MH motherboards which are FM1 sockets with 8...

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Last post by Shotup
Sat Nov 03, 2012 2:52 pm
"Service is unavailable" WJAR 10

Last post by loomis2 « Fri Nov 02, 2012 3:01 pm
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by JeffLJ » Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:58 am

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I am running Windows 7 with a Hauppauge 1600 PCI tuner card connected to an antenna in the attic.

Starting around the 1/1/12 WJAR would not record - would get Service is unavailable when I hit record
Live TV was working fine.

Now all I get is Service is unavailable when I try to watch it at any...

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Here is what worked for me:
Go into the guide to the channel that is giving the Service Is Unavailable message, right-click, and select Edit Channel.
At the bottom of the list, make sure Show Preview is listed.
Select Edit Sources
(There should just be a blue background since it isn't showing any...

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Last post by loomis2
Fri Nov 02, 2012 3:01 pm
Adding Tuners

Last post by werds « Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:35 pm
Replies: 11
by werds » Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:25 pm

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So I currently run a system with Ceton InfiniTV4's and was happy with it, but am selling one of them and will be back down to 4 tuners instead of 8. Not a major loss except occasionally there is a need for more than 4 tuners due to our recording and TV watching habits...

I have a handful of ATI...

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Yep tried that, will post a set of screenshots later this evening so you can see what I am seeing.

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Last post by werds
Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:35 pm
Pinnacle PCTV HD USB 2.0 Stick 23049

Last post by hooraah « Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:11 pm
Replies: 1
by walterh1223 » Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:40 pm

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Hi All,
I am trying to setup a new media center windows 7 X64. I have a couple issues.

1. I have 2 of the above tuners and am trying to get an OTA ATSC signal. The issue is it doesn't seem to pickup ABC/USA when going through this USB stick. When I plug straight into my TV with my amplified...

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Sometimes some tuners are more sensitive compared to tuners that are built into TVs. First, I would try using your antenna to go through the 'signal strength' scan in windows media center and take a look at the signal strength for ABC. It might be right on the border of signal quality. If you get 0...

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Last post by hooraah
Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:11 pm
Data Unavailable In EPG

Last post by KungFuKid « Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:14 pm
Replies: 8
by KungFuKid » Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:41 am

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Morning,

I have this issue where it displays that data is unavailable on certain channels, if I go to that channel it displays now and next only which makes it impossible to record future shows. I posted about a similar issue with missing guide data a while back but program information for the day...

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Ok, thanks for the info bobbob, I will give that a go.

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Last post by KungFuKid
Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:14 pm
FTA Satellite West Coast US

Last post by barnabas1969 « Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:16 pm
Replies: 5
by TeddyR » Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:37 am

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I am thinking of dabbling a little into Satellite FTA to see what additional channels I can get. I realize I am not in the normal area that most FTA satellite users might be (West Coast, USA), but I am looking for channels in the other languages I speak that at not available locally; so starting...

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i seem to remember barnabas1969 looking into a similar query, not long ago
Yes, but I never bought any tuners or dishes. I didn't like the fact that I'm limited to a 1x4 switch. I didn't want four dishes on my roof... and that wouldn't be enough to get all the satellite channels that I would be...

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Last post by barnabas1969
Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:16 pm
Dedicated Recording HTPC

Last post by JSylvia007 « Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:29 pm
Replies: 6
by JSylvia007 » Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:03 pm

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Howdy all! First time poster here on TGB, but I've been an avid user of MCE since XP all the way up now to Windows 7.

My question is this...

I have built a great back office HTPC in a server closet in my house. It powers my main TV and has 2 Ceton InfiniTV 4 USB tuners with CableCards hooked up...

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Ceton is an excellent company, and I will continue to use their products. Thanks for all the info. It's greatly appreciated.

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Last post by JSylvia007
Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:29 pm
CBeebies gone!

Last post by KungFuKid « Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:04 pm
Replies: 7
by sddunne » Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:50 am

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Hi All,

It seems that the BBC have decided to move around some of the Freesat channels to free up some bandwidth, unfortunately this includes CBeebies which is my little boys favourite channel!

The article explaining the move is;

Does anyone know how to read this and translate it into a...

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Glad you got it sorted!

Sorry but I should have suggested a piece if software called guide tool:

It's a fantastic bit of software that makes channel management a lot easier!

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Last post by KungFuKid
Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:04 pm
How to remove channels that I don't receive?

Last post by werds « Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:35 pm
Replies: 8
by jsrober » Fri Sep 07, 2012 10:11 pm

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Hi,

I have a SiliconDust HDRCC3. It's awesome! I love having all my PC's able to connect to it and watch TV. The best toy I've bought in a long time!

I have Verizon FiOS and there are a whole bunch of channels in MCE that I do not receive as part of my package. How do I get the SiliconDust...

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Hey Chris! Nice to see you here.

I gave the same advice to the OP, but the truth is that I use both/either the Edit Channels menu, or Guide Tool. Your description of using the arrow key and space bar is exactly how I do it in both methods. One nice thing about Guide Tool is that you can select a...

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Last post by werds
Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:35 pm
DVB Logic Advice Please

Last post by bobbob « Thu Oct 04, 2012 3:10 pm
Replies: 14
by Doddsie » Wed Jul 11, 2012 7:33 am

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Hi All

Bit of advice needed please...

Lounge 1 = My main Media centre all TV recordings are made on this machine with TBS Dual DVBS2, Dual Blackgold DVBT2 and Single Hauppauge DVBS2 all live and work happily...

Lounge 2 = Media centre with shared ability to watch recorded TV.

Question is would...

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should come here and update that since updating dvblink to 4.5 it trashes how BSEPG works so i have ended up using the DVBLink add-in which as .Nico says is nice. there is still a gap in functionality with BS EPG which i am trying to get filled, but its good to be able to eliminate another 3rd p...

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Last post by bobbob
Thu Oct 04, 2012 3:10 pm
AverMedia tuner failing?

Last post by Mike88 « Wed Oct 03, 2012 11:40 am
Replies: 3
by sebaz » Sun Sep 16, 2012 12:19 am

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I have had an Avermedia A188 dual ATSC tuner since 2009 and used it relatively free of trouble. It's being used with Vista Home Media Center in a separate PC that serves only as a DVR.It was working fine until about a month ago, when I noticed that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed up on the list of...

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So they only last a few years - wonderful. Maybe that's why they discontinued selling them.

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Last post by Mike88
Wed Oct 03, 2012 11:40 am
MCE Satellite cards - UK

Last post by MikeJHathaway « Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:35 pm
Replies: 5
by MikeJHathaway » Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:10 pm

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Hi Everyone,

I am just about to start building my very own MCE HTPC and am rather new to the whole topic so am researching loads and asking (probably some very basic/stupid) questions.

I am planning on replacing my sky multi room setup with a HTPC with a couple of dual satellite fed PCIe cards...

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Thanks for all the responses.

I actually have an old PC I am going to use, it's a HP Pavilion A6000 not sure what board is in there but I have a quad fire PCU with 3GB RAM. I have setup the XBoxes as media extenders and that is all fine, I just need to order up my DVB-S2 cards.

Cheers

Mike

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Last post by MikeJHathaway
Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:35 pm
Poor Live TV Quality....Why?

Last post by CyberSimian « Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:04 am
Replies: 11
by dazza » Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:56 pm

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Hi All,

I have a Nova DVB-S2 HD tuner card and a Sky subscription. The quality of live TV (SD channels) through W7 MCE compared to that of the Sky HD box is poor. Can anyone advise why and what I can do to bring it to at least the same as the Sky STB if that's possible?

I have an Nvidia graphics...

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running at 1920x1080@60HZ. Don't see a 50HZ option in Nvidia control panel. TV is on Just Scan.
I do not have Sky, but I was under the impression that high definition from Sky is in fact 720p (or maybe even 720i), bit not 1080i.

If Sky is 720p, it means that the HTPC will be doing the pixel...

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Last post by CyberSimian
Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:04 am
PCTV Media Center Legacy Kernel

Last post by runza44 « Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:23 pm

by runza44 » Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:23 pm

right, ive literally been driven crazy by this problem. Basically i have a pctv nanostick hd freeview usb stick which i use in conjunction with windows media center. I have my media center set to sleep after 1 minutes of being idle. This works perfectly all the time except for when i start up my...

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Last post by runza44
Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:23 pm
Dual DVB-S2 tuners and Xbox 360 question

Last post by asm495 « Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:06 pm
Replies: 3
by dazza » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:48 am

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Hi All,

Shortly I'll have my W7 MCE PC equipped with two Hauppauge DVB-S2 tuner cards which I'll be running Sky through. We have two Xbox 360's which I want to use as extenders. Now, here's the question. Can I assume that you are able to watch two separate channels on the extenders (one on each)?...

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Apologies I thought you had two dual tuner cards whereas it seems you have or are getting two cards with 1 tuner each. I would recommend getting two dual tuner cards in any case as it makes the whole system work much more smoothly. Or alternatively you can even buy a quad DVB-S2 tuner which only...

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Last post by asm495
Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:06 pm
Higher CPU Usage?, Prime-Network or Ceton-USB? ZBox Mini-PC

Last post by barnabas1969 « Sat Sep 08, 2012 2:39 am
Replies: 1
by JazJon » Sat Sep 08, 2012 12:58 am

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I'm thinking of switching to a Zotac ZBox mini-PC.
(moving soon and will need to have Media Center in my bedroom instead of the livingroom)

Since Mini-PC's are Slightly under powered compared to your average home built system it got me thinking.

Which CableCard tuner would put less load on the...

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Both are network tuners. It shouldn't make a difference. Both do all the processing internally, and re-encrypt the copy-protected channels... thus requiring the CPU to decrypt the stream and then encrypt again with PlayReady.

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Last post by barnabas1969
Sat Sep 08, 2012 2:39 am
Setup - Infinitv4 + HVR2250

Last post by richard1980 « Tue Sep 04, 2012 1:16 am
Replies: 4
by cclark89 » Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:38 pm

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Hello,

I'm looking for guidance.

Now that I have a reliable Infinitv PCIe Card up and running, I have a spare HVR 2250 that is not being used. I have an open PCIe slot and might as well add the 2250 to my setup.

A Couple Questions:

1) Does WMC treat ATSC/NTSC separate from CableCARD tuners?...

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Digital cable channels are all QAM, regardless of whether they are encrypted or not. I believe what you are trying to say is CableCARD tuners can tune unencrypted QAM channels as well as encrypted QAM channels. Which means that by default, you could have 8 tuners that can tune unencrypted QAM...

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Last post by richard1980
Tue Sep 04, 2012 1:16 am
What ATT should do to increase uverse viability...

Last post by gpatlanta « Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:35 pm
Replies: 3
by TeddyR » Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:34 pm

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I understand that currently uverse does not work with cablecards and thus WMC7. My question is how hard would it be for ATT to develop and provide a USB device that has BDA drivers that emulate QAM tuners to the OS and present the uverse IPTV channels to any BDA (ie: mediacenter or other tv tuner...

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That's a good point. Cablecos are required by law to offer cablecard, but telcos and satelite providers in the same market are not? This is fundamentally flawed..

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Last post by gpatlanta
Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:35 pm
Tuner Selection Advice Needed

Last post by Tony2255 « Sun Sep 02, 2012 12:18 pm
Replies: 1
by TW_Canada » Fri Jun 22, 2012 7:41 pm

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I've been using WMC for several years and my current tuner (Hava Monsoon) just died, so I need a new one. I'm having difficulty finding a suitable one as the information on capabilities is very sparse and selection criteria on the vendors websites is not good for drilling down on specific...

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I am having the same issue. Have you found anything that will work yet?

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Last post by Tony2255
Sun Sep 02, 2012 12:18 pm
Network Tuner Pool on demand sharing to other Computers?

Last post by barnabas1969 « Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:52 am
Replies: 20
by JazJon » Sat Aug 25, 2012 11:34 am
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I know the Ceton and HDHomeRun both work as network tuners. My question is, do you have a dedicate tuners per PC permanently? (fixed once, no on the fly changes possible?)

Or... Can you have it shared in an on demand pooled kind of way?

Example, say I have two Ceton quad USB tuners hooked up to...

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SD would have to re-cert if they added more tuners. Additionally, (this is based off my memory from 2 years ago, so I do not promise this is 100% correct any more) they are using the fastest CPU from Ubicom in the line they are using - most likely they ended up at 3 tuners due to CPU horsepower...
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Last post by barnabas1969
Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:52 am
DVB-S/DVB-S2 to receive FTA (free to air) satellite in US?

Last post by dotbatman « Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:45 pm
Replies: 35
by barnabas1969 » Tue Mar 20, 2012 5:05 am
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I'm contemplating cutting the cord and telling the cable company to go pack sand. I recently installed an outdoor antenna... and 75% of my recorded shows are available OTA. I've looked at the ones that are not available OTA (24 of them), and have found that 33% of those (8) are available from Hulu...

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That's very interesting. Please share anything you tweaked before you installed the TBS tuners.

Also, what about the TBS tuners don't you like? (tuning speed, picture quality, tuning sensitivity, etc)

The tuner in the TBS card is much less sensitive and doesn't show the same quality readings on...
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Last post by dotbatman
Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:45 pm
Avermedia MTVCOMG2M / H797 Tuner Card - Low Volume

Last post by controls_guy « Fri Aug 17, 2012 4:40 am
Replies: 1
by controls_guy » Wed Aug 01, 2012 4:35 am

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Hi,

I recently replaced a Hauppauge Roslyn tuner card with an Avermedia MTVCOMG2M /H797 in my Windows 7 Pro 32 bit HTPC. Nothing else was changed. The audio volume of the new TV recordings is much lower than with the old card, requiring a higher volume control setting for live TV or recording...

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Additional info ... even watching live TV, when the audio is piped from the satellite receiver to the amp is now much louder than when the signal is routed through the HTPC with the H797 with the same amp and PC settings as before.

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Last post by controls_guy
Fri Aug 17, 2012 4:40 am
PlayReady Updates

Last post by JohnW248 « Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:08 pm
Replies: 33
by Crash2009 » Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:14 am
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I thought that PlayReady was a one time thing. Something that you install when you first setup a tuner, and that's it, done, over. Recently I have been loosing channels here and there and calling the Comcast # and telling the headend to hit me . Every time I had done that in the past, shortly...

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Do you have a local repair store that has a good ram tester? Also check and make sure that there isn't some requirement that needs to be met if this is build up instead of a Dell etc. I had some problems with trying to keep some existing RAM in an i7 and mixed speeds of 1200 and 1600 and there were...
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Last post by JohnW248
Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:08 pm
Hauppauge HVR2250 with eHome IR Transceiver-SOLVED

Last post by Indyguy « Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:59 pm
Replies: 1
by Indyguy » Sat Aug 11, 2012 11:33 am

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Greetings! I just rebuilt a Win7 (64-bit) machine and want to set up WMC with my Hauppauge HVR2250 card. I also have a HP eHome IR transceiver that I want to change channels in WMC. I had this all working previously with my old Hauppauge 350 card on a 32-bit install, but can't seem to get this new...

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Ok - well I got it to work! Seems like my version of PlayReady PC was corrupted :x I uninstalled it, then re-ran the Setup TV Signal wizard. I also only selected one of the tuners when I set it up (dont know if that was necessary but it worked). I had to reprogram to use my DTA remote but worked...

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Last post by Indyguy
Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:59 pm
TunerSalad crashing in Win7 - resolved

Last post by swampfire « Sat Aug 11, 2012 4:00 pm
Replies: 9
by swampfire » Sat Aug 11, 2012 12:26 am

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When I run TunerSalad as Administrator and click Increase Tuner Limit , I get this error:

Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. ~snipped~

Access to the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Settings\TVConfig' is denied.

If I...

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Yes, Windows gremlins. Thanks again for making this program.

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Last post by swampfire
Sat Aug 11, 2012 4:00 pm
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950Q Tuner

Last post by barnabas1969 « Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:59 pm
Replies: 3
by rallen52 » Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:05 pm

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i have a general ? about my hauppauge 950q wintv running on win 7 64 bit,my ? is ,it runs find through media center ,i have been looking for other software that i can use,but they never recognize the tuner stick,i have tried countless software and no luck,can anyone tell me why,is it 64 bit?i tried...

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I guess I misunderstood. I thought you were trying to get the tuner working in Media Center. NPVR and J River are NOT Windows Media Center apps. If you want it to work in programs other than Windows Media Center, then you need to install the driver listed on the Apps/Drivers tab on the Hauppauge...

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Last post by barnabas1969
Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:59 pm
ATI Digital Cable Tuner Pairing Issues

Last post by STC « Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:10 pm
Replies: 9
by nailsman » Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:33 pm

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I have tried to pair my ATI DCT with the cable card and I keep getting the message

Tuner 1
CableCard Paring

Authorization Failure 1070
Host Certificate Invalid
There was a technical problem
during the authorization
process. This product may have
some component failure or may
not be designed to...

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Arrggh!

My apologies. It's been a long time since talk of DCT's.
I really did believe M-Cards would not work in them. My mind must have mixed up the fact you cant run S-Cards in Ceton or HDHRP's (who would want to anyway?) and not the other way around.

John found out the true reason why it wasn't...

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Last post by STC
Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:10 pm
Alphas on Syfy

Last post by signcarver « Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:58 pm
Replies: 3
by btracy » Wed Aug 01, 2012 1:10 am

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Ok this really is related to TV tuners. :)

Has anyone here happened to have recorded Alphas on Syfy last Monday or this Monday? Both times (also at 11PM on the reshowing), the copy-never flag was applied to the broadcast so I couldn't record it. I have been in contact with Charter and they are...

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Syfy may use a number of things in its broadcast to set copy never flag (CGMS-A is probably most often) however a cablecard tuner looks at the cci byte and if it is set to copy once or copy freely, it will override other protections. However, some cable companies don't set cci on some channels...

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Last post by signcarver
Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:58 pm
How does WMC select appropriate tuner?

Last post by mark1234 « Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:39 am
Replies: 4
by herrakonna » Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:30 am

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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,...

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I agree with Barnabas, my 7MC follows the set tuner priorities.

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Last post by mark1234
Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:39 am
Which tuner card should I buy? (Win XP)

Last post by mcewinter « Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:49 am
Replies: 5
by popit » Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:33 pm

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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...

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The HDHomerun QAM tuner will work in MCE2005. That will get you your locals in HD.

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Last post by mcewinter
Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:49 am
7MC ATSC/QAM/NTSC Hybrid card recognized as ONLY Analog

Last post by richard1980 « Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:23 pm
Replies: 8
by Baldric » Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:04 pm

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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)...

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I think dmagerl sent you down the wrong path. Before you get to the channel scan, WMC detects the tuners, and shows you the following screen:

clip_image020 .jpg

Configure the tuner manually.

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Last post by richard1980
Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:23 pm
Guide Has Incorrect Channel

Last post by ala1970 « Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:21 pm
Replies: 4
by ala1970 » Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:27 pm

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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...

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I contacted Zap2it and it's fixed now. Thanks a bunch!

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Last post by ala1970
Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:21 pm
Poor QAM video quality.

Last post by lithium630 « Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:28 pm
Replies: 7
by Jefe » Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:56 pm

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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...

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Would a signal amplifier help?

If you try an amplifier, just make sure you put it before all the splitters. It might help.

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Last post by lithium630
Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:28 pm
AVerMedia Duet Card

Last post by Mike88 « Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:17 am

by Mike88 » Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:17 am

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...

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Last post by Mike88
Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:17 am
After Windows 7 Upgrade, TV Tuner is Not Found

Last post by albertotj « Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:00 am
Replies: 5
by albertotj » Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:29 am

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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...

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i need to see how the tv tuner looks on the device manager

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Last post by albertotj
Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:00 am
Guide(tool) no longer updating with Genpix Tuner

Last post by rsoares28 « Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:04 am

by rsoares28 » Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:04 am

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...

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Last post by rsoares28
Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:04 am
Dual DVB-T PCIe Tuner to 4 Tuners?

Last post by CyberSimian « Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:55 am
Replies: 19
by joecrow » Mon Jul 09, 2012 10:10 am

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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...

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No, the TBS needs two aerial feeds but the Blackgold 3650 has just one aerial feed
Yes, you are correct. Apologies to anyone who was mislead by my previous post.

-- from CyberSimian in the UK

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Last post by CyberSimian
Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:55 am
How many dvb-t tuners can i run (UK)

Last post by sorethumbs « Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:10 pm
Replies: 26
by sorethumbs » Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:23 am
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We have a rather dodgy freeview signal where we are, it seems the aerials in our street either point one way or the other and our aerial looks rather rusty and old. Thinking of getting an aerial chap in to replace it and put in a point in daughters bedroom as she's getting old enough to have her...

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I've tried both aerial inputs, i think its something to do with setting up dvb-s at the same time. I tried dvb link tv source just to make sure the card was getting a signal which it was. I should have just tried setting up dvb-t and see if it works on its own. I've brought the card into work to...
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Last post by sorethumbs
Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:10 pm
Adding a second USB tuner?

Last post by sorethumbs « Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:43 am
Replies: 8
by sorethumbs » Sat Jul 07, 2012 2:53 pm

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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...

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Thats excellent thanks Cyber. I will try that tonight it looks a good method. I think i'd been setting up a tuner + scanning, then going in to add another and it would require scanning again. That link makes more sense (if it works!)
I will let you know

phil

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Last post by sorethumbs
Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:43 am
No signal on some sub-channels?

Last post by TheEmrys « Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:49 pm
Replies: 6
by TheEmrys » Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:58 pm

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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...

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Thank you. Worked like a charm. Thank you so much.

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Last post by TheEmrys
Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:49 pm
UK Freeview through Virgin Media STB

Last post by mark1234 « Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:39 am
Replies: 8
by critcher » Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:53 pm

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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...

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Hi, I think you've already been guided this way, and I'd join in to say that if you're only on the M/M+ package from Virgin then I recommend switching to a Freeview or Freesat solution. Either will give you a much better experience than trying to route Virgin through Media Centre.

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Last post by mark1234
Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:39 am
Need help with my Anysee TV Tuner

Last post by hasanordek « Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:59 pm

by hasanordek » Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:59 pm

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...

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Last post by hasanordek
Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:59 pm
Regular Hauppauge USB Tuner Failures

Last post by newfiend « Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:48 pm
Replies: 5
by Freddysocram » Mon Jun 25, 2012 8:07 pm

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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...

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Well, it would appear that I have fix it! It turns out it was a hardware fault.

The usb tuner came with a short USB extension lead to help raise the tuner away from the machine as it blocks the other USB ports. I tryed the tuner connected direct to the laptop, and bingo! Hey presto! It's now...

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Last post by newfiend
Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:48 pm
7MC "thinks" there is no signal

Last post by Ack « Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:47 pm
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by jiggahits@yahoo.com » Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:42 pm

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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...

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Problem solved!

Thank you all for your replies.

dmagerl - THANK YOU! That worked. I had no idea that the tuners were aggregating multiple signals and showing them on one mce channel. After deselecting the bad sources I can now watch live tv and record with no problems! The dream of being cable/...

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Last post by Ack
Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:47 pm
Hauppauge Colossus experience?

Last post by TW_Canada « Fri Jun 22, 2012 7:09 pm
Replies: 7
by thehobster » Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:06 am

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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...

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I tried it. The board does a great job on picture quality and the accompanying video cables are first rate. However:

1. The IR cable that came with the board was DOA. Phoned Hauppauge and they sent a new cable with no problem.

2. Couldn't get the IR subsystem to learn and retain my satellite...

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Last post by TW_Canada
Fri Jun 22, 2012 7:09 pm
WMC 7 - OTA channel KABC-7 suddenly gone

Last post by WMCNEEL « Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:57 pm

by WMCNEEL » Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:57 pm

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...

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Last post by WMCNEEL
Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:57 pm
DirecTV H25 and IP Control?

Last post by phenixdragon « Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:09 am
Replies: 2
by phenixdragon » Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:10 am

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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...

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The H25's require the DECA adapters as far as I know. Thell them to swap them for the H24's.

That's right. I forgot about that. I do have that setup so I should be alright then. I think I remember reading you have to set the IPs static on them, so I will have to play around with it. I still need...

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Last post by phenixdragon
Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:09 am
Hauppauge 1600 ATSC Only Receiving Certain Channels

Last post by barnabas1969 « Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:45 pm
Replies: 1
by sksupra » Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:23 pm

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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...

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I had to do a little research, because I didn't know what pnear's hack was. I gather that you're in Canada, and you had to do some stuff to make Media Center detect ATSC channels, yes?

You've probably already found this wiki, but in case you haven't.... here's the link . Open that link and scroll...

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Last post by barnabas1969
Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:45 pm
How to Record HD From DirecTV?

Last post by Scallica « Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:44 am
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by guppy » Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:03 am

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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.

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I might wait til the price drops to under $100 before I get one.

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Last post by Scallica
Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:44 am
How to get a smooth CableCard install?

Last post by Wolfshadw « Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:27 pm
Replies: 14
by rdy2go » Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:07 pm

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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?

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It's sad that there are so few of us that are making use of our PCs in this way. This is the reason the cable techs have no idea what they're doing.

Anyway, glad you have it up and running! Enjoy!

-Wolf sends

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Last post by Wolfshadw
Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:27 pm
Ceton or HDHomerun Prime?

Last post by sherr « Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:30 pm
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by jedimaster109 » Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:59 pm

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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...

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Ceton does a good job.
If you wait, I think I read they are going to offer a 6 tuner using one Cable Card.

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Last post by sherr
Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:30 pm
Getting copy-protected channels to play on laptop

Last post by barnabas1969 « Fri May 18, 2012 3:42 am
Replies: 14
by barnabas1969 » Mon May 07, 2012 2:13 pm

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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...

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I installed the HDHRP software/drivers on the wife's Acer (aka cheap ) laptop. It plays copy-protected content too! She really likes that! She can now watch her favorite channel (CNN) anywhere in the house! Cool. Now, if I can get the No TV Signal problem fixed on the HDHRP, I'm golden. This new...

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Last post by barnabas1969
Fri May 18, 2012 3:42 am
On the horizon

Last post by richard1980 « Sun May 06, 2012 2:38 pm
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by rdy2go » Sun May 06, 2012 1:54 pm

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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?

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Whiteman Technologies may have something coming out sometime in the future as well...a box with 6 SiliconDust CableCARD tuners. No word yet on full specs or release date.

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Last post by richard1980
Sun May 06, 2012 2:38 pm
Blackgold BGT-3620 Tuner Shows Black Screens

Last post by holidayboy « Sat May 05, 2012 2:54 pm
Replies: 1
by deadspeak » Sat May 05, 2012 8:29 am

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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...

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Just a random thought bubble - could it be increased power usage compared to the old card?

Maybe plug the PC into a power meter to see how much you're drawing?

I use a PicoPSU in a bedroom PC and used to have some weird random issues which turned out to be power related.

Probably not your issue...

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Last post by holidayboy
Sat May 05, 2012 2:54 pm
Dual OTA Tuner

Last post by josim « Thu May 03, 2012 5:49 pm
Replies: 6
by tomrossi7 » Tue May 01, 2012 7:19 pm

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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...

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I have the Duet and like it much better than the Hauppauge 950 USB tuner that I had. Better channel changing and signal. I not trying to compare a single channel hybrid USB tuner with the duet but, just saying.

IIRC the problem with the Duet was narrowed to some Asus motherboards. Those poor...

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Last post by josim
Thu May 03, 2012 5:49 pm
OTA Reception Changed

Last post by barnabas1969 « Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:50 pm
Replies: 1
by spinnaker » Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:05 pm

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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...

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If you want help with OTA reception, the best place to go is They have an abundance of information and a great forum with lots of knowledgeable people who know all about OTA reception. You can put in your street address and it will show you a chart of all the stations in your area, what kind of...

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Last post by barnabas1969
Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:50 pm
Need Suggestion for CableCard Tuner!

Last post by richard1980 « Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:31 pm
Replies: 5
by brantmacga » Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:05 pm

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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?

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It doesn't matter which of the devices you get becuase either a PC is going to work with both devices or it isn't going to work with either device. It really comes down to which form factor works the best and how many tuners are wanted. Obviously you are giong to be facing some challenges anyway...

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Last post by richard1980
Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:31 pm
DVB-C Tuners

Last post by NWW « Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:08 am

by NWW » Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:08 am

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

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Last post by NWW
Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:08 am
Swapped motherboard - tuners stopped working

Last post by brantmacga « Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:33 pm
Replies: 8
by brantmacga » Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:07 pm

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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...

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Sorry I assumed you had already done that. It is still advisable to install a fresh windows for any motherboard (of a different type) replacement.

thanks for the advice; i'm going to let this thing ride as-is since everything is now working properly. last thing i want to do is burn a weekend...

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Last post by brantmacga
Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:33 pm
Viewing or recording ClearQAM = Tuner Conflicts = ?

Last post by ProAm500 « Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:24 am
Replies: 9
by ProAm500 » Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:59 am

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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...

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thanks for the clarification...i must say though, thats a big time bummer

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Last post by ProAm500
Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:24 am
Ceton InfiniTV 4 vs Silicondust HDHomeRun DUAL

Last post by barnabas1969 « Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:53 pm
Replies: 15
by borntworide » Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:52 pm

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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...

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For help with over-the-air reception, regardless of whether you're using Media Center or a plain-old TV, go to tvfool.com. There are plenty of people there who can help you.

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Last post by barnabas1969
Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:53 pm
Daisy Chain Cable Amp

Last post by Snigle « Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:38 am
Replies: 6
by Snigle » Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:15 am

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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:...

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Thanks everyone, I'll give TWC another call.

Last time they were here they did mentioned that I was very far from the neighborhood drop and they were surprised everything worked . I had no idea that the amp wouldn't help the SNR (granted I haven't looked at that yet), so I really do appreciate the...

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Last post by Snigle
Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:38 am
Subscription Required & Service Not Available Messages

Last post by Wolfshadw « Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:53 pm
Replies: 3
by hakamarob » Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:42 am

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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...

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I've run into this as well, but have never bothered to look into it. I did note that *sometimes*, just pressing the Info button on my MCE Remote is enough to get it to wake up .

-Wolf sends

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Last post by Wolfshadw
Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:53 pm
ATI TV Wonder DCT, cable card pairing problem

Last post by erkotz « Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:59 am
Replies: 1
by rlipoff » Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:43 am

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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...

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Either your CableCARD or ATI tuner is bad. Start by getting another CableCARD and trying again.

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Last post by erkotz
Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:59 am
WMC not using tuners correctly

Last post by gjn200 « Sat Mar 31, 2012 1:58 am

by gjn200 » Sat Mar 31, 2012 1:58 am

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...

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Last post by gjn200
Sat Mar 31, 2012 1:58 am
Noob'ish questions about mutiple tuners

Last post by DaemosDaen « Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:46 pm
Replies: 18
by DaemosDaen » Wed Mar 21, 2012 1:55 pm

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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...

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Well, the house cooled off this weekend and it's settled down to 54.9 with all 6 tuners going. I'm still going to work at it, but it's not as dire. unfortunately I had other emergencies this that took precedence. I will let you know how it goes

Thanks for all the help.

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Last post by DaemosDaen
Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:46 pm
FIOS Boston Area / Tuner Options... Simulcrypt

Last post by erkotz « Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:01 pm
Replies: 4
by Tegeril » Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:23 pm

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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...

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The Ceton InfiniTV also fully supports Simulcrypt

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Last post by erkotz
Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:01 pm
Trying to keep MC7 as my main hub (Sky & Virgin question)

Last post by barnabas1969 « Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:06 pm
Replies: 10
by geoffneck » Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:36 am

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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...

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Funny stuff. Don't forget the pizza with that beer. It's been a long time since I took two years of German in high school. I remember enough to listen to a conversation and understand what is being said. It works out well when I go to the UC4 technical conference every year... those guys are all...

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Last post by barnabas1969
Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:06 pm
DVB-S tuner recommendations

Last post by milli260876 « Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:44 pm
Replies: 1
by erkotz » Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:19 pm

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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...

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I think technisat do one too but they don't support dvb-s2 in WMC (driver issue) you can stream dump or run a motor with the technisat PCI cards never used a usb one.... Sorry

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Last post by milli260876
Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:44 pm
ATSC tuners mixed with ClearQAM and CableCARD?

Last post by barnabas1969 « Wed Mar 21, 2012 1:36 pm
Replies: 15
by barnabas1969 » Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:18 am

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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...

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I appreciate the suggestion of Guide Tool, however in trying to use it, it doesnt seem to 'do' anything.

I see it load up my channels and all the available carriers in the area, but when I try to merge tuners by any of the options, none of my channels change in the guide, nothing appears to be...

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Last post by barnabas1969
Wed Mar 21, 2012 1:36 pm
Copy protected?

Last post by rjairam « Wed Mar 21, 2012 2:45 am
Replies: 12
by rjairam » Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:16 am

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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...

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OK, so mystery solved. It was CGMS. Looked on the Ceton diagnostic page for the tuner and it shows 0x02 One Copy CGMS-A.

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Last post by rjairam
Wed Mar 21, 2012 2:45 am
Pros and cons of cable cards?

Last post by kd0bcl « Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:31 pm
Replies: 45
by borntworide » Fri Mar 16, 2012 3:20 pm
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I am looking to make the right choice for my PC. The card i like is the Ceton InfiniTV 4 Digital Cable Quad-tuner Card PCIe. My other choice is the Hauppauge WinTV-DCR-2650 (CableCARD TV Tuner) 1450 USB 2.0 Interface .
What problem occur with both, support desk, ect will be really helpful.. I am...

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It sure sounds like he is saying it does, but all I know is that when I tune any particular frequency and read the diagnostic page I get a value of approx 7db less than what my signal level meter reads on the same qam frequency. I know the meter is accurate as it has recently been calibrated and I...
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Last post by kd0bcl
Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:31 pm
Reliability? - Ceton InfiniTV vs HDHomeRun Prime

Last post by rjairam « Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:39 am
Replies: 49
by cpyne » Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:21 pm
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Hi Everyone,

I'm considering buying either a Ceton or a HDHomeRun Prime so I can add cable to my Win7 Windows Media Center PC. A big factor in my choice is going to be reliability since my wife/kids are going to be using it as well. I've read a lot of posts talking about issues with the HDHomeRun...

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I think I need new blades for my stripper.

Sounds kinky....although, I hope you know owning your own stripper was outlawed in 1865.

Yeah, mine was made in China too, looks like I'm in double trouble. :lol:
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Last post by rjairam
Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:39 am
My TBS8921 Tuner Cannot Find BBC1HD

Last post by asm495 « Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:04 pm
Replies: 3
by burnsey » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:18 pm

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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?

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I find that the satellite scan misses lots of channels recently. Here are a bunch of transponders that if you scan manually should pick up a lot of the missing ones including BBC1 HD. I'm afraid they're not formatted very well as they are copied and pasted from several different sources:

Carrier...

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Last post by asm495
Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:04 pm
Colossus: SD Recordings Stutter & Can't Convert to MKV

Last post by Scallica « Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:43 pm
Replies: 1
by MarquisEXB » Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:47 am

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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...

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I can't convert it using ffmpeg or the built in Windows to dvrms.

What happens when you attempt to convert it?

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Last post by Scallica
Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:43 pm
Media Center Does Not Recognize iTek USB Tuner

Last post by richard1980 « Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:58 pm
Replies: 1
by oigroig » Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:39 pm

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?

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Last post by richard1980
Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:58 pm
Cable Card Basic Question

Last post by VikingCrown « Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:44 pm
Replies: 3
by VikingCrown » Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:53 pm

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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?

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Excellent, that was the answer i was expecting.

THANKS!

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Last post by VikingCrown
Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:44 pm
Newbie-which TV tuner card or USB?

Last post by barnabas1969 « Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:32 pm
Replies: 3
by jojobob17 » Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:41 am

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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...

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Echoing what Adam and Bob wrote...

In the USA or Canada, using a Cable company, you will need the following:
For analog cable channels: NTSC tuners
For Clear QAM (not encrypted) digital channels: QAM tuners
For encrypted QAM channels: CableCARD tuners

In the USA or Canada, using over-the-air...

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Last post by barnabas1969
Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:32 pm
Hauppauge HVR-1600

Last post by barnabas1969 « Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:31 am
Replies: 3
by username » Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:22 pm

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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...

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Do you have one of those D-A converter boxes laying around that you can get for free? If not, then you're going to spend about $60 anyway... might as well get the USB tuner I mentioned... or a second 1600 if you have another PCI slot in that PC. You can get a 1600 on e-bay for about $40.

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Last post by barnabas1969
Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:31 am
Tuner conflict

Last post by erkotz « Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:20 pm
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by llololloy » Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:01 am

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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...

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Can you look for an event (at roughly the same time) in your Application event log with a source of Application Error and an ID of 1000. The text of the error should mention ehrecvr.

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Last post by erkotz
Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:20 pm
PCI Cable Card tuner for non PCI-e desktop?

Last post by Scallica « Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:51 pm
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by jerseyclaw » Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:40 pm

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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...

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They won't work if you have FiOS.

True only if simulcrypt is implemented; it's not in all areas.

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Last post by Scallica
Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:51 pm
Tevii S480

Last post by mark1234 « Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:39 pm
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by milli260876 » Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:01 am

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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?!?!?!??!

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When I was considering Freesat I'd seen these and was going to go with one. Looks a bit of a bargain.

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Last post by mark1234
Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:39 pm
Anyone Still using the ATI Digital Cable Tuners?

Last post by rjairam « Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:50 pm
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by sonofsmog » Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:06 am

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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...

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I have two ATI DCTs on two PCs. They're used for two reasons - backup for my InfiniTV and the ability to watch live TV on those PCs.

Plus I have two single stream CableCARDs that I bought in 2007 for use with my Series 3 TiVo which I don't have anymore. Since I bought them I can't return them to...

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Last post by rjairam
Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:50 pm
Fios TV on WMC

Last post by erkotz « Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:55 am
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by bluezr1 » Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:37 pm

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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...

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You would want a high-quality splitter rated to 1GHz. Personally, I'd recommend you get a splitter from your cable operator, if possible, rather than from Radio Shack. Odds are the one from your MSO will be higher quality.

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Last post by erkotz
Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:55 am
Low Bit Rate / Service is unavailable

Last post by Scallica « Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:35 am
Replies: 10
by lord xeon » Mon Feb 06, 2012 1:41 am

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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...

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Thanks for the follow up.

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Last post by Scallica
Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:35 am
install 2 different dvb-s tuners

Last post by llololloy « Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:57 pm
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by sorethumbs » Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:23 am

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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...

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shouldn't be an issue.
are you using 3 direct coax cable feeds from lnbs or using some kind of splitter?
personally, i prefer to scan the individual transponders to avoid some of the utter rubbish broadcast on satellite.
if you manually scan do you still get the same signal and quality across each...

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Last post by llololloy
Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:57 pm
Broadcast App not working with Ceton USB

Last post by dano « Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:21 pm

by dano » Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:21 pm

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...

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Last post by dano
Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:21 pm
InfiniTV4 and HDHRPrime on same PC

Last post by UCBearcat « Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:26 am
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by UCBearcat » Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:19 pm

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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...

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Interesting... Could anyone speculate if Silicondust has considered doing the same? Or maybe they already have, and I m just not aware of it yet.

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Last post by UCBearcat
Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:26 am
Bi-directional CableCARD host for Windows?

Last post by barnabas1969 « Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:18 pm
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by barnabas1969 » Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:55 pm
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I'm not even sure how I got to reading about this, but here it is...

I'm always interested in learning new things. I am very inquisitive and... inquiring minds want to know.

So, I already know that the Ceton and other available CableCARD tuners for PC's are uni-directional and unable to work with...

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I can tell you that I had the same cable box for 7 years before I went to Windows Media Center. I'm sure the cable company made money from my box.
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Last post by barnabas1969
Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:18 pm
Trouble with TBS 6981 Dual Tuner

Last post by holidayboy « Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:57 pm
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by milli260876 » Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:09 am

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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...

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I've forgotten most of what I learned about DVB-S stuff but my first guess would be that the channels are in the same band (high/low) and are using the same polarisation (h/v).

Similar to the way that quatro LNB + switch systems can dish out signals to multiple tuners in blocks of flats etc by...

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Last post by holidayboy
Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:57 pm
Looking to Upgrade - But to What?

Last post by WarrenH « Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:51 pm
Replies: 10
by mattiedread » Sat Jan 28, 2012 3:18 pm

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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...

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MC is part of Win7 except the basic version and can be removed and reinstalled through the control panel program installation.

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Last post by WarrenH
Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:51 pm
Help with playback error

Last post by joshmsab « Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:37 pm
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by joshmsab » Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:40 am

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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...

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Driver package version is 1.5.4304.6
The PCIe driver is 1.0.2.4
Diganostic tool 1.5.0.0

InfiniTV Firmware is 1.1.0.14
InfiniTV Hardware is 5000

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Last post by joshmsab
Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:37 pm
Does anyone still have to use two TAs?

Last post by erkotz « Mon Jan 30, 2012 6:48 pm

by erkotz » Mon Jan 30, 2012 6:48 pm

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...

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Last post by erkotz
Mon Jan 30, 2012 6:48 pm
Two missing cable channels

Last post by rbmorse « Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:59 pm
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by rbmorse » Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:38 pm

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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....

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Comcast did their site visit this morning as promised and corrected the problem in short order. The tech disconnected the house at the terminal on the street and then ran a temporary cable directly into the Ceton card. The channel list populated immediately...and I mean immediately...and everything...

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Last post by rbmorse
Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:59 pm
UK - Channel 5 and BBC HD, BBC1HD not working

Last post by Fleadh « Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:42 pm
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by BigJohnno » Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:05 am

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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 -...

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Use Guidetool and see if the 'other' versions of your channels work.

What media center puts forward by default is very often simply doesnt work and you have to do a lot of tweaking to get a useable lineup.

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Last post by Fleadh
Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:42 pm
BBC1 and 2 Guide Data

Last post by StumpyBloke « Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:56 am
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by StumpyBloke » Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:02 pm

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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

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A good imaging program such as Acronis lets you do crazy things to your HTPC, with the comfort of being able to go back to the point you started at.
I swear by that method. Any major changes are always accompanied with an image first.

I've used that in the past. I also like Microsoft's system...

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Last post by StumpyBloke
Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:56 am
Dual tuner for ATSC & Clear QAM with Hardware decoding.

Last post by Tracer « Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:32 pm
Replies: 6
by jonny4 » Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:58 am

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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...

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The older SiliconDust HDHomeRun tuner had an input for each tuner. You can still get them on Ebay and Amazon usually under $100.

The newer HDHomeRun only has a single input, these are network tuners so it would need to be connect to your network.

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Last post by Tracer
Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:32 pm
Can 7MC schedule well with 1 x DVB-T and 1 x DVB-T2 tuner?

Last post by mark1234 « Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:38 pm
Replies: 4
by aitcheff » Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:02 am

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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...

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You set tuner priorities in the Edit Channels/ /Edit Sources screen.
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Last post by mark1234
Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:38 pm
Running with low specs

Last post by LuckyDay « Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:23 pm
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by devmorgan » Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:16 pm

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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...

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I think the HDHR Prime is as good as any other tuner. However, I think your end results will be better if you manually assign tuners rather than using dynamic tuner assignment (which is problematic).

I've never gotten around to doing this, but have had problems with the tuner going out until I...

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Last post by LuckyDay
Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:23 pm
Direct tv Box to Vista MC

Last post by ultraext « Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:03 pm
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by ultraext » Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:48 pm

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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...

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Thanks for the reply, looks like a great option.

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Last post by ultraext
Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:03 pm
MPEG-4 H\W

Last post by mark1234 « Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:14 pm
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by fnealon » Wed Jan 11, 2012 2:40 pm

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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...

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A DVB-T tuner, regardless of which one you use, will be receiving the digital stream as broadcast, so no encoding is necessary. Encoding is only necessary when using an old analogue source.

The decoding is then done by your graphics card, not the tuner.

You may or may not get better performance...

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Last post by mark1234
Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:14 pm
Win 7 MC Low Bit Rate Screen

Last post by patrikf « Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:22 pm
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by sprocketjockey » Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:34 am

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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...

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I have the same or a very similar issue (I think it says No signal or something like that).
I have also started to get recordings split into two separate files recently, and quite often recording fails suddenly, missing the rest of the programme.
One possible contributing factor to various problems...

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Last post by patrikf
Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:22 pm
Tuner Priority Issue

Last post by Jay « Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:33 pm

by Jay » Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:33 pm

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...

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Last post by Jay
Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:33 pm
Tuner Not Found - Nova-t & HDS2

Last post by alanroy « Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:33 am
Replies: 16
by leom_h » Sun Dec 04, 2011 5:15 pm

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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...

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This is a dreadful error, and almost impossible to pin down. I got so fed up I went and bought a brand new Black Gold quad tuner, and installed from a clean installation (format c:) - however the Black Gold has similair issues. After tearing my hair out with that, I put the Novas back in again, and...

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Last post by alanroy
Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:33 am
My New OTA setup

Last post by mclark2112 « Fri Dec 23, 2011 4:40 pm
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by mclark2112 » Fri Dec 23, 2011 4:00 pm

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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...

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Looks great! I do have to admire people if they are able to cut the cable , although OTA +7MC does make it a bit more bearable. Hopefully your OTA signal is good enough. You've probably thought about it a lot already, but if it were me, I'd send the signal from the main HTPC to the main tv, rather...

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Last post by mclark2112
Fri Dec 23, 2011 4:40 pm
Add a Tuner

Last post by VikingCrown « Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:12 pm
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by VikingCrown » Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:28 pm

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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?

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I have passed the digital cable advisor so i am set there. I am currently only using the 2250 and HDHR for QAM, not OTA.

Bummer i can't save the settings and just add a new tuner. Guess it will be a pain, but oh well.

Thanks!

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Last post by VikingCrown
Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:12 pm
Tuner woes

Last post by rldev « Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:40 pm
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by rldev » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:14 pm

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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...

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Thanks for the explanation.

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Last post by rldev
Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:40 pm
USB tuner (Hauppauge DCR-2650, Ceton IFINITV4) with SDV

Last post by richard1980 « Mon Dec 19, 2011 7:29 am
Replies: 13
by ahbskauh » Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:30 pm

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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)....

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The CableCARD is not paired with the TV. It is paired with the tuner. So if you change tuners, you'll have to re-pair the CableCARD.

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Last post by richard1980
Mon Dec 19, 2011 7:29 am
Fix for Viewing and Listening Error

Last post by mmatheny « Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:30 pm
Replies: 3
by bcmiguel » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:57 pm

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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...

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bcmiguel - that's because it takes about 3 minutes for the tuner to initialize - there really aren't any tuners available!

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Last post by mmatheny
Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:30 pm
Dual DVB-S2 + Dual DVB-T2 on one card

Last post by davewilldo « Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:03 am
Replies: 27
by holidayboy » Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:22 am
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So I'm looking to tweak my setup slightly and think I might be after one of the BGT3630 cards once they're released - assuming Blackgold manage to avoid issues like those that plagued the BGT3620!

Anybody else looking to include something like this in their setup?

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Hi Chaps,
I have installed and been using the BGT3600 card in Windows 7 32 and 64 bit Home Premium under Media Center and have had good results.
Tuning the Terrestrial TV HD channels was no problem, it appeared to find all that is available in our area, however signal quality is so poor that...
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Last post by davewilldo
Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:03 am
HD-PVR

Last post by wassupTC « Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:28 pm
Replies: 4
by wayner » Wed Nov 30, 2011 8:58 pm

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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.

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Not that you need this for the actual streaming of media; but if you're using Win7 MC, you'll also want to make use of the Guide Tool from 1geek1tool.com to get everything squared away in your Media Center channels database. It's technically free, but a small donation--the cost of a fast food value...

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Last post by wassupTC
Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:28 pm
ATI DCT Weak Signal after 7 seconds of perfect playback

Last post by colintheys « Thu Dec 01, 2011 5:49 pm
Replies: 17
by colintheys » Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:41 pm

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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...

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Hi Erkotz,

Thanks for the tip. Turns out that replacing the ATI DCT with the InfiniTV solved the problem. Don't know why... but I'm not going to question it. :)

Thanks,
-Colin

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Last post by colintheys
Thu Dec 01, 2011 5:49 pm
Any UK users lost 4HD?

Last post by StumpyBloke « Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:01 pm
Replies: 9
by milli260876 » Mon Nov 28, 2011 9:04 pm

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

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Thanks Rob, will give it a go!

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Last post by StumpyBloke
Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:01 pm
Can I manually edit the WMC channel file?

Last post by wayner « Wed Nov 30, 2011 8:56 pm
Replies: 2
by gerrym » Mon Nov 14, 2011 3:58 am

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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...

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I tried guidetool but I prefer Guide Editor

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Last post by wayner
Wed Nov 30, 2011 8:56 pm
Guide tool

Last post by wassupTC « Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:05 pm
Replies: 1
by markcf105 » Mon Nov 21, 2011 7:18 pm

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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...

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Mark,

I have two different sources in my Media Center setup: one SiliconDust HDHomerun network tuner and one DVBLink Network Server Pack.

As long as you can tell the difference between the sources in your Media Center guide then I think you should be fine. It all depends on how your sources feed...

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Last post by wassupTC
Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:05 pm
WTV File/Seek Broken

Last post by wassupTC « Mon Nov 28, 2011 4:19 pm
Replies: 6
by wassupTC » Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:37 am

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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...

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ShowAnalyzer didn't make your setup crap out--but it may have been the first piece to sound the alarm, due to what it does.

In my opinion, that's a welcome to Windows revelation.

In addition to being careful what software to add to the mix, I think the weakest part of your solution is the RAID...

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Last post by wassupTC
Mon Nov 28, 2011 4:19 pm
TV Tuner update from Microsoft

Last post by oliroe « Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:17 am
Replies: 12
by oliroe » Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:49 am

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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

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Afraid not, I've now disadled one of the HD tuners and running with 2 x SD and 1 x HD

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Last post by oliroe
Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:17 am
Greetings and a Tuning Adapter question

Last post by erkotz « Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:01 pm
Replies: 4
by penetronn » Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:50 pm

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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...

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FCC requirements have had all MSOs (that use TAs) push out 4-tuner firmware (and in fact, it actually supports 6 tuners). I just checked with our support staff and they told me they aren't seeing the old (two-tuner) TA firmware at all anymore, so you should be good.

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Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:01 pm
No Picture on WMC

Last post by wally188 « Sun Nov 13, 2011 3:44 am
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by wally188 » Sun Nov 13, 2011 2:09 am

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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...

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Well the recent video card driver from nvidia optimized a few things for battlefield 3 and made the game run a bit better so instead I just reinstalled the same driver and It fixed my problem. THANKS A MILLION for pointing me toward the vid card driver being the issue. It works as usual now

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Last post by wally188
Sun Nov 13, 2011 3:44 am
Built in splitter for WinTV-HVR2250

Last post by blueiedgod « Mon Nov 07, 2011 3:31 pm
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by spinnaker » Sat Nov 05, 2011 2:27 am

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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?

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If you look at the WinTV-HVR-2250 Quick Install guide you will see a picture that shows 2 coax connectors. Only one is for TV (the other is for radio). Connect a signal to the top coax connector on the card. The card has a built-in splitter that will pipe the signal source to the two onboard TV...

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Last post by blueiedgod
Mon Nov 07, 2011 3:31 pm
New TBS6284 quad DVB-T2 tuner

Last post by mattya « Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:19 am
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by holidayboy » Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:15 pm

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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........

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it's said it will be available on 25th Oct, that's tomorrow, i'm wondering is it the same in the UK???

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Last post by mattya
Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:19 am
Hauppauge DCR-2650 w/ XBOX360

Last post by erkotz « Sat Oct 22, 2011 3:21 pm
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by t3yf5g » Sat Oct 22, 2011 12:27 am

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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...

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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...

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Last post by erkotz
Sat Oct 22, 2011 3:21 pm
Poor Reception / No Signal

Last post by indyjonesuk « Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:28 am
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by indyjonesuk » Sun Oct 16, 2011 9:48 pm

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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...

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Thanks

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Last post by indyjonesuk
Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:28 am
What about Dvico tuners?

Last post by dotbatman « Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:55 pm
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by bbubelis » Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:57 pm

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

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Crappy engineering (as in lots of heat). Don't count on driver updates when a new OS comes out. Also, the channel change delay is ridiculous. One of the few hardware components I've had that failed before I was done using it. Steer clear.

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Last post by dotbatman
Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:55 pm
Two tuners... one antenna

Last post by Scallica « Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:09 am
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by boogmeister1 » Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:35 pm

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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...

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You will not be disappointed with a Motorola A/C powered signal booster. I boosted my signal from -10db to +7db. There are plenty on ebay.

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Last post by Scallica
Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:09 am
Best ATSC/ClearQAM Tuner for Win7MC

Last post by richard1980 « Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:55 am
Replies: 23
by CEHKIA » Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:14 am
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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...

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You are confusing terms again. There is no such thing as the QAM range . QAM and VSB are modulation schemes and have nothing to do with the channel number or frequency range a specific channel uses. Plus, since the channels are using 8VSB modulation, you should know that they aren't in the QAM...
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Last post by richard1980
Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:55 am
Time Warner missing channels "Subscription Required"

Last post by Scallica « Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:56 pm
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by RWFarley » Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:07 am

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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...

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If you log into the web interface of the HDHR and access the log page, what is displayed there? Have you opened a ticket with SD Support?

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Last post by Scallica
Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:56 pm
Adding and removing tuners

Last post by Fleadh « Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:06 am
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by soccerdad » Thu Oct 06, 2011 4:58 pm

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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...

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addding and removing tuners means your back to square one. Using the full guidetool backup of your linup helps a small bit but really, its a PITA.

I think using DVBLOGIC to manage your tuners gives you closer to NExt pvr functionality.

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Last post by Fleadh
Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:06 am
AverTV Express Mini trouble tuning some hd clearqam channels

Last post by BerMM « Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:45 am

by BerMM » Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:45 am

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...

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Last post by BerMM
Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:45 am
Hauppauge DCR-2650 Issues

Last post by noxryan « Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:32 am
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by noxryan » Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:35 am

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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...

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Called up Hauppauge support. They stated that all updates are taking place in firmware, the driver is generic. They said there aware of the issue and working on an update for this week. The tuner is basically useless until then, hopefully it's fixed soon.

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Last post by noxryan
Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:32 am
more networking problems

Last post by STC « Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:04 pm
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by nadspink » Tue Sep 20, 2011 7:16 pm

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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.

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erkotz you have a PM sir :)

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Last post by STC
Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:04 pm
TBS6921 not getting BBC HD channel in MC7

Last post by pobmeister « Tue Sep 20, 2011 3:42 pm
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by pobmeister » Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:29 pm

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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!

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A single transponder scan with parameters 10847, 23000, Vertical picked up a working BBC HD and added BBC One HD. I thought an all transponders scan would have been sufficient but clearly it's not enough.

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Last post by pobmeister
Tue Sep 20, 2011 3:42 pm
Random Newb questions

Last post by Venom51 « Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:09 pm
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by bigjohn » Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:36 pm

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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...

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Well I can't do anything about that. In theory under DVBLink you should have a hook folder for each of the Colossus cards if you have set them up to use the hook instead of the internal IR. That would give the ability to use the built in blaster of each Colossus to control the Dish boxes. You'll...

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Last post by Venom51
Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:09 pm
Button to find HD feed

Last post by erkotz « Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:00 pm
Replies: 7
by kikflip » Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:48 pm

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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 :)

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You can go to info about the show, and other showings will show it on the HD channel.
Here on TWC, the HD channels are 1000 higher than their SD counterparts (so if Comedy Central is 300, Comedy Central HD is 1300)

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Last post by erkotz
Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:00 pm
share ntsc over network

Last post by lovemyram4x4 « Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:18 pm
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by TheMightyGeckoe » Sat Aug 13, 2011 2:29 am

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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...

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It's likely your cable provider will be dropping analog feeds before to long, most of the larger have already done so. If you want to get a full channel line up and max your HD content a cablecard tuner might be your best bet. Also I'm pretty sure dvblink should be able to what you want w/ what you...

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Last post by lovemyram4x4
Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:18 pm
Dead tuner on Peak Dual DVB-T

Last post by mark1234 « Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:27 am
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by mark1234 » Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:02 pm

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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...

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I've not done anything, but tuner 1 seems to have come back to life now.

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Last post by mark1234
Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:27 am
Win TV HVR 225o

Last post by Danno100 « Sat Sep 10, 2011 1:30 pm
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by qamplease » Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:18 am

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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...

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One other thing to note, if you run Tuner Salad/TV Logo's I believe it will undo Peter's hack, so just rerun it again.

I believe there is a list of QAM channels here but I found it can't always be trusted because Cogeco and other cableco's usually have a core set of Qam channels but can turn...

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Last post by Danno100
Sat Sep 10, 2011 1:30 pm
Help with dvb-t and dvb-s tuners setup

Last post by sorethumbs « Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:52 am
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by sorethumbs » Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:14 pm

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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...

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Thanks for the help guys.
Last night i did it all from fresh, i scanned the
1st tuner and got 1076 channels - was still missing some channels on frequencies it should pick up
2nd tuner scanned and i got 1103 channels and some of the missing ones were now there

So the card picks up extra channels...

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Last post by sorethumbs
Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:52 am
Hauppauge DCR-2650 - does anyone have it working with TAs?

Last post by erkotz « Fri Sep 09, 2011 12:02 am
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by erkotz » Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:35 am

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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...

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FYI, Hauppauge support responded to me:
As of right now we are working to resolve TA support as currently we do not have support this. Our developers are working on an update for TA support which should be released in the next few weeks and I can inform you of the update’s release.

And before...

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Last post by erkotz
Fri Sep 09, 2011 12:02 am
TWC Milwaukee Flashes TA's

Last post by racerx « Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:43 pm
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by CaptainOverSpray » Sat Aug 13, 2011 4:23 am

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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...

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Good luck with the upgrade and continued smooth sailing. Make sure you disconnect one of the 2 Cisco TAs, as they do not play well together. Also, keep an eye out for Not subscribed or similar messages on SDV channels. These are not the SDV1 errors that occasionally pop up. About once or twice a...

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Last post by racerx
Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:43 pm
No center channel in LiveTV or Recorded TV

Last post by etcarroll « Thu Sep 08, 2011 1:06 am
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by tredderx » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:20 pm

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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...

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OP - do you live in Philly?

I get my OTA HDTV feed from Philly and I just realized I'm missing center channel on CBS late night talk shows, but it's there for other channels, and dvd with 5.1 mix.

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Last post by etcarroll
Thu Sep 08, 2011 1:06 am
CableCard self-install today?

Last post by Scallica « Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:43 am
Replies: 6
by shoffert » Mon Aug 01, 2011 1:53 pm

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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...

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You pretty much have to sacrifice a live chicken to get your Comcast CableCARD working.

Haha, that is unacceptable. I would suggest you both file complaints with the FCC.

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Last post by Scallica
Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:43 am
dreamboxes and dvbsource

Last post by milli260876 « Sat Sep 03, 2011 5:35 pm
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by milli260876 » Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:33 am
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Hi guys I know a few of you have this rigged up. I'm hoping to get a Chinese dreambox then the possibility of adding it as a network tuner via dvbsource. Main question is .. do I need a HD dreambox for the HD channels? Fancying a sky ftv card to incorporate 5hd...
Also will the PC be OK to sleep...

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i've got the plijade image running, disappointed to see USALS doesn't work and so far my motor has not been playing nice...
guess this is going to be one heck of a learning curve!!!
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Sat Sep 03, 2011 5:35 pm
BlackGold BGT3540

Last post by sorethumbs « Fri Sep 02, 2011 4:39 pm
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by sorethumbs » Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:55 pm

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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...

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Well just installed it and got 2 dvb-s tuners, plugged in the aerial for dvb-t and also getting 2 tuners for that. Tried recording 4 channels at once and they are all recording (2 freeview and 2 satellite) so seems to be a bargain buy.

I've now run into a problem where my PC can go to sleep but...

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Last post by sorethumbs
Fri Sep 02, 2011 4:39 pm
Anyone use a Kworld 499-T2 in UK?

Last post by Fleadh « Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:56 pm
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by peeky1323 » Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:29 am

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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...

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yep, only a dvb-t

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Last post by Fleadh
Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:56 pm
TV playback freezes computer - resolved

Last post by Venom51 « Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:19 pm
Replies: 6
by timhimes » Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:45 pm

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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...

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Ask me how many fans I've replaced on the same GT210? Luckily I have room in the case to mount a larger ,quieter, better quality fan than what came on the card.

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Last post by Venom51
Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:19 pm
Hauppauge PCTV HD 80e

Last post by Tracer « Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:27 pm
Replies: 2
by rdy2go » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:10 pm

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

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I don't know about cheaper but, better I've always like the SiliconDust HDHomeRun for QAM/ATSC for external. However with the price of the new Hauppauge DCR-2650 is probably a better deal since it is a CableCard tuner and you don't have to worry about just the clear QAM channels your cable provider...

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Last post by Tracer
Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:27 pm
Corrupt Recording The recorded program is corrupt and cannot

Last post by JazJon « Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:47 am
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by JazJon » Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:18 am

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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...

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Ahhhh............... never mind, I figured it out. One of my disks was going bad.

I have two drives pooled together as one giant dynamic disk set. It seems one of the drives was slowly going bad and died completely tonight. I ran seatools and I'm filling out the RMA return now. I think the single...

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Last post by JazJon
Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:47 am
ATI Cable Card Tuners Computer Not Card Ready

Last post by whited « Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:10 pm
Replies: 3
by whited » Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:18 am

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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?

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OMG thank you so much guys. I was running Digital Tuner Diagnostics in setup, I didn't know it was in the extras. I have been sitting on duel CC tuners for about 2 months without my hbo.

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Last post by whited
Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:10 pm
TBS 6981 issues

Last post by sorethumbs « Thu Aug 18, 2011 6:37 pm
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by sorethumbs » Sun Jul 24, 2011 7:50 pm

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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...

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Lee's right
Bought, installed, had few problems, installed in new PC, worked fine until i went to screw in a new feed and the connector attached to the card got wobbly. Amazon in process of refunding. Not sure i will get another now the missus has found out i bought a new gadget somewhat 'quietly'...

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Last post by sorethumbs
Thu Aug 18, 2011 6:37 pm
newbie help - home (free to air) tv tuner networking

Last post by tony_park « Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:59 am
Replies: 3
by LFNfan » Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:39 am

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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...

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hi dduk

Thanks for the welcome and the ref to DVB Logic. Cool product, seems to be exactly what I'm after, functionality-wise. I will look in to it further. Not sure if it's geared only to WHS? I hope to be running freeNAS on my server.

Hi, you can install the server portion of dvblink on your...

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Last post by tony_park
Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:59 am
Problems with Hauppage IR Blaster

Last post by christopherve7alb « Sat Aug 13, 2011 4:16 pm

by christopherve7alb » Sat Aug 13, 2011 4:16 pm

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...

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