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Arny Krueger
Re: Cop-out or valid for M-Audio to say they "don't support" their card running with XP MCE?
"Romeo Rondeau" <eveyone@ease.com> wrote in message
news:FAn7j.77129$YL5.8985@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net
> Arny Krueger wrote:
>> "David B." <brooks.dj@nomail.com> wrote in message
>> news:uO0Gx22OIHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl
>>> Do you even know what Media Center is/does?
>>> It's been around for 5 years and is used by many people
>>> as a PVR/cable box replacement, does a great job, it's
>>> also available in Vista.
>>
>> Compared to running any of the PVR software packages
>> that are sold with video tuner and capture cards, it
>> really doesn't seem to do anything that is terribly
>> unique.
> It does look cool on an HDTV, and that's what it was
> designed to do
Yes, but the PVR software/hardware does the same stuff. If you're in the
market, ADS cards come with what seems to be the best software. I picked up
a pretty functional HDTV package for XP by ADS from Amazon for about $60.
If you want to expunge what the PVR software does to your system from your
system, you just uninstall it. So far I haven't found that it creates any
big black holes while installed, other than creating a lot of I/O when you
are recording or playing video, or when you are time-shifting.
One other thing is that the third party software that comes with the TV
tuner and video capture cards seems to have a fair amount of cross-vendor
compatibility. For example, I've inter-operated PVR software and cards from
ADS and ATI.
If you run Windows MCE your tuner/capture card needs to provide special
software for running with Windows MCE. I've run cards that came with MCE
drivers with other vendor's PVR software. So MCE reduces your options.
"Romeo Rondeau" <eveyone@ease.com> wrote in message
news:FAn7j.77129$YL5.8985@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net
> Arny Krueger wrote:
>> "David B." <brooks.dj@nomail.com> wrote in message
>> news:uO0Gx22OIHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl
>>> Do you even know what Media Center is/does?
>>> It's been around for 5 years and is used by many people
>>> as a PVR/cable box replacement, does a great job, it's
>>> also available in Vista.
>>
>> Compared to running any of the PVR software packages
>> that are sold with video tuner and capture cards, it
>> really doesn't seem to do anything that is terribly
>> unique.
> It does look cool on an HDTV, and that's what it was
> designed to do
Yes, but the PVR software/hardware does the same stuff. If you're in the
market, ADS cards come with what seems to be the best software. I picked up
a pretty functional HDTV package for XP by ADS from Amazon for about $60.
If you want to expunge what the PVR software does to your system from your
system, you just uninstall it. So far I haven't found that it creates any
big black holes while installed, other than creating a lot of I/O when you
are recording or playing video, or when you are time-shifting.
One other thing is that the third party software that comes with the TV
tuner and video capture cards seems to have a fair amount of cross-vendor
compatibility. For example, I've inter-operated PVR software and cards from
ADS and ATI.
If you run Windows MCE your tuner/capture card needs to provide special
software for running with Windows MCE. I've run cards that came with MCE
drivers with other vendor's PVR software. So MCE reduces your options.