Re: MS Vista with service pack 1

"jim" <jim10293@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:atfoc4phg8a27969f6dupl0d7uv86kilcq@xxxxxxxxxx
[Default] On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:04:43 -0500, Marks Avana
<marksavana@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Glenn wrote:
Having completed the migration back to Windows from Mac, I should
mention that it wasn't very difficult. (TRS 80, IBM DOS, OS/2, Windows
95, Mac OSX, and now Vista. One would have to be pretty green to start
before sp1.) I've, for now, replaced HOMM 3 with the Doom collector's
edition. TV is fine, but cable isn't cooperating (e.g., cable's digital
channel 94.6 is really broadcast signal 106) so I have to live with
analog channels, about 80 for now. With all this memory, I'm recording
everything that I used to sleep through as recording to memory is much
simpler than using a VCR. When they get the bugs out of blu-ray video
formatting, I won't have any complaints. Performance is good, Norton
isn't, Media center is good, global find (use start search as a command
line) isn't, etc, but nobody asked me.

You are recording TV programing on your Vista computer?

Daughter records lots of TCM movies and such using Media Center in Win
98. Works like a champ for her.

The TV card has three coax inputs, analog tv, digital tv and fm radio. My cable company only supports analog without paying more. I hooked up the two tv inputs to two inputs from a two way splitter of the cable signal and discovered the digital signals were available, but not supported. Since blu-ray video recording currently requires software at about one hundred dollars, I can wait for cable and a cheap program. I suspect by sometime next winter I'll have what I want. For now I'll record to memory and copy in blu-ray format to standard dvds, these play on my blu-ray player attached to my 40 inch lcd sony. These discs are 120 minutes at the best resolution, but that's enough for now.

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