Re: MS Vista with service pack 1

"El Castor" <No_One@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:i4prc4lui1rgg4anm329lm4dcabt7k7eu4@xxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:52:38 -0500, "Glenn" <minorgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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If you've got a card like my Hauppauge HVR1600 with a QAM tuner, as
well as a cable with unencrypted digital (as opposed to analog), what
you have to do (using the Hauppauge WinTV software -- not Media
Center) is to connect the cable to the digital input on your card and
tell the card to scan for digital channels -- which can take a long
time. Whatever it finds will be added to the list of available
channels in WinTV, thereby getting around the necessity of being able
to manually tune to 103.1, 103.2, etc. Then you have to reconnect the
cable to the analog input, and let the NTSC tuner scan for analog
channels. If you have both analog and QAM channels, you will have to
use the WinTV (for a Hauppauge card) software because Media Center
can't deal with the digital stuff -- and you will also need to use a
splitter so that your cable is feeding both the analog and the digital
inputs on your card. If your cable provider is someone other than
Comcast, your chances of success are increased since I understand that
Comcast uses non-standard frequencies for it's clear QAM transmission.
Funny that my Toshiba tuner doesn't have a problem with Comcast, but
my Hauppauge apparently does. Grrrrr.

I have done all of this and the channels are all there, but no signals yet. I'll wait for the change to digital and check back. I can always pay cable for their cable box.

--
Glenn

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