tv tuner card mary 12/29/2008 10:50:01 AM Hi Everyone. I hope everyone had a safe and nice Christmas. I have Windows Xp Media Center 2005 and a Hauppauge WinTv-HVR-1250 PCIe card installed, I brought the card thinking that I could receive the extended basic channels(100+) that Comast Cable has to offer. Unfortunately it does not. It only receives digital channels up to 99. My setup is --cable from the wall--dvr--tv tuner card. When I try to setup my tv signal in WMC(WMC recognizes my stb remote) it scans the system, It scans channel 2. My tv stays on channel 4 and the DVR changes the channels. That is whre my problem lies. the WMC remote will not change the channels inside WMC, but will change the channels on the STB. I am at a loss. Can some please give me advice on how to solve this problem. I have searched many forums for the answer and have not found one. Any assistance will be appreciated.

Re: tv tuner card "Jaime" <jaimelobo[ at ]hotmail.com> 12/29/2008 2:13:00 PM The lower cable channels (up to approx 99) are analog channels, those can be tuned directly by an analog tuner within MC. Higher channels are generally digital channels (many are scrambled) and can only be received through the STB and then funneled to MC through a composite/s-video/coax connections. The standard MC can only receive over-the-air (OTA) digital channels when you use a digital tuner card. You can have two cards in you system -- one receiving the analog channels and one receiving the OTA digital stations and MC will merge programming into one guide so you can use both channels. Some digital cable channels are sent in an unencrypted format (Clear QAM) and some tuner cards can receive these additional channels and come with there own software to tune and view the channels, however currently MC does not have this capability Vista may be updated to include this option, but it is doubtful that XP would be updated to support Clear QAM. Currently the only option to receive the digital channels directly (no STB), is to purchase a new Vista cable ready system that would have a cable card tuner. These tuner have a slot for a card from your cable provider that replaces the function of the STB. -- James Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida "mary" <mary[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3109D4EA-83C5-4401-BE0C-FB9A3A583D54[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hi Everyone. I hope everyone had a safe and nice Christmas. I have > Windows > Xp Media Center 2005 and a Hauppauge WinTv-HVR-1250 PCIe card installed, > I > brought the card thinking that I could receive the extended basic > channels(100+) that Comast Cable has to offer. > Unfortunately it does not. It only receives digital channels up to 99. > My > setup is --cable from the wall--dvr--tv tuner card. When I try to setup > my > tv signal in WMC(WMC recognizes my stb remote) it scans the system, It > scans > channel 2. My tv stays on channel 4 and the DVR changes the channels. > That > is whre my problem lies. the WMC remote will not change the channels > inside > WMC, but will change the channels on the STB. I am at a loss. Can some > please give me advice on how to solve this problem. I have searched many > forums for the answer and have not found one. Any assistance will be > appreciated.

Re: tv tuner card "Curious" <mailmenot[ at ]nomail.com> 12/29/2008 2:32:18 PM To receive the signal from your STB if it is set to output on analog channel 4 and is connected to your tuner card using a coax connection you have to tune your MC to analog channel 4 then you will be seeing the channels being tuned to on the STB. "mary" <mary[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3109D4EA-83C5-4401-BE0C-FB9A3A583D54[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hi Everyone. I hope everyone had a safe and nice Christmas. I have > Windows > Xp Media Center 2005 and a Hauppauge WinTv-HVR-1250 PCIe card installed, > I > brought the card thinking that I could receive the extended basic > channels(100+) that Comast Cable has to offer. > Unfortunately it does not. It only receives digital channels up to 99. > My > setup is --cable from the wall--dvr--tv tuner card. When I try to setup > my > tv signal in WMC(WMC recognizes my stb remote) it scans the system, It > scans > channel 2. My tv stays on channel 4 and the DVR changes the channels. > That > is whre my problem lies. the WMC remote will not change the channels > inside > WMC, but will change the channels on the STB. I am at a loss. Can some > please give me advice on how to solve this problem. I have searched many > forums for the answer and have not found one. Any assistance will be > appreciated.