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Old 04-16-2007, 04:24 PM   #1
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Windows Media Center and HDTV - doesn't work
As far as I can tell, no way to get HD programming into Media Center. All the HD cards are for off-air or open cable HD signals. None of them have HDMI or component input.

Any ideas?
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Old 04-16-2007, 04:25 PM   #2
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Old 04-16-2007, 04:25 PM   #3
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Spend some of your teh monies to buy TIVO instead of dealing with Microsoft muck-a-muck?
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Old 04-16-2007, 04:28 PM   #4
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TIVO. Been there, done that.
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Old 04-16-2007, 04:29 PM   #5
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TIVO. Been there, done that.
I have a sony DVR that's pretty sexy look into those?
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Old 04-16-2007, 04:31 PM   #6
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I have Motorola HD DVR's, and a key digital HD switch to share across the house. But not the same thing as true centralized content.
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Old 04-16-2007, 04:35 PM   #7
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As far as I can tell, no way to get HD programming into Media Center. All the HD cards are for off-air or open cable HD signals. None of them have HDMI or component input.

Any ideas?

Have you considered software other than Media Center?
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Old 04-16-2007, 04:39 PM   #8
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Old 04-16-2007, 04:57 PM   #9
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You can use firewire to connect your PC to a cable receiver.

Alternatively, if you have Vista you can get an Cablecard tuner that allows you to receive all HD cable programming.
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Old 04-16-2007, 05:30 PM   #10
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Some of the new laptops have hdmi out. Havent tried it yet so not sure how it looks. I would imagine pretty good with a decent LCD or plasma.
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Old 04-16-2007, 05:32 PM   #11
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Where can I get a CableCard Tuner? I thought they were not widely available.

And HDMI OUT is no problem. It's the IN that's the problem.
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Old 04-16-2007, 05:35 PM   #12
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OMG!!! Something with windows doesn't work!!!!

I'm lost for words.....the horror.
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Old 04-16-2007, 05:39 PM   #13
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Where can I get a CableCard Tuner? I thought they were not widely available.

And HDMI OUT is no problem. It's the IN that's the problem.
right now cablecard tuners can be bought with new "certified" pc's, dell is one company I know of that sells them.
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Old 04-16-2007, 05:58 PM   #15
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right now cablecard tuners can be bought with new "certified" pc's, dell is one company I know of that sells them.
Have a Link?
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Old 04-16-2007, 06:30 PM   #16
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Just checked and it looks you might be out of luck for the moment, apparantly they pulled shipments of them because of some bug.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...ble-tuner.html
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Lensman could you be my mentor?
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Old 04-16-2007, 10:35 PM   #18
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And we still wait
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Old 04-16-2007, 10:45 PM   #19
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I'm looking into building a system for my house, too. I want a centralized server with everything on it: movies, shows, some music, etc. Then I want each computer and each TV to be able to pull from it. Both of my TVs are HDTVs.

Has anyone done this?

As far as this thread goes... HDMI is still fairly new technology. May have to wait a bit yet. When I bought my first HDTV about 2 years ago I had a difficult time finding HDMI, then when I bought my second last summer, pretty much every TV had HDMI. My cheapo DVD player has it even.
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