Re: MS Vista with service pack 1

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:33:01 -0500, "Glenn" <minorgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

"jim" <jim10293@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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[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.

Glenn, I also use Media Center to record an occasional Comcast TV
program, but like you I'm stuck with analog. My problem, and very
likely yours, is that:

1. I'm using a Hauppauge HVR1600 TV card. To receive unencrypted
digital cable signals you need a QAM tuner, which Hauppauge claims the
card has. Unfortunately, it only receives a tiny fraction of the
unencrypted digital on the cable. I know because I have a Toshiba HDTV
on the same cable run that gets far more digital stations. Hauppauge
tech support is of no help.

2. Secondly, Media Center doesn't support digital -- only analog. I
think the reason is that the studios don't want computers recording
HiDef.

If you have other software you can receive over the air various
resolution digital signals, including HiDdef, but even if you had a
BluRay recorder, why would you want to write to a BluRay disk? The
blank media costs $10 - $15 a disk. Dual layer DVD's are about a
dollar and single layer DVDs are 25 cents.
.

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