Re: Media Center questions

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Your computer will wake up even from hibernation to record TV, then sleep or hibernate again according to how you have set up the sleep function.
I used a P4 2.6GHz 2GB RAM, one 300GB and one 500 GB to record TV for a couple of years until the nearly 6 year old system failed two weeks ago.
Now I have a i7 system I put together myself.

One problem I have found with my new system is that I can only use 2GB of my 6GB of RAM with my two Hauppauge TV tuners, model PVR-150 when using 64 bit Windows.

A test of my wireless network with an XBOX extender said that my 55 Mbs was fast enough for HD video, so 100 Mbs should be plenty for HD video.

"Gregg Hill" <greggmhill at please do not spam me at yahoo dot com> wrote in message news:uwbwJLHjJHA.1252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Originally posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video, but no response.

Hello!

I don't have Vista installed yet, but I want to set it up with an internal dual-tuner card, probably this one http://hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hvr2250.html, and use it as an ATSC DVR for OTA shows.

1) Can a Vista Ultimate computer running Media Center as a DVR be set to
automatically wake up from S3 and start recording, then go back to sleep
when it is done? I don't want to leave it running all day when on vacation
just to record shows.

2) My Dell Dimension 4700 is a P4 3.0GHz, 3GB RAM, one 250GB SATA II 3.0Gbps
drive for Vista to be installed and one 500GB SATA II 3.0Gbps for the
recordings, with an eVGA NVidia GeForce 7600GT 256MB video card with dual
LCD displays attached.. I believe that to be a reasonable system. Do you?

3) My network is all Gigabit...or at least it was until I had to pull the
PCIe Gigabit NIC from the Dell to make room for the Hauppauge card. There is
only one PCIe slot available, so that leaves me with the onboard 10/100
unless I get a PCI Gigabit NIC. For streaming an HDTV recording to an
"Extender for Windows Media Center" device for playback onto an HDTV, how
much bandwidth does it gobble?

4) I am looking for recommendations for a quality "Extender for Windows
Media Center" device. Any suggestions? Reading the forums for the devices
suggested by Microsoft is depressing, as no one seems to think any of them
work well.

Thank you for your time and suggestions!

Gregg Hill


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