Re: UK MCE 2005 2 x PCI Freeview decoders?

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From: Robert Schlabbach (robert_s_at_gmx.net)
Date: 10/14/04


Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:02:56 +0200


"k" <me@work.here> wrote in message
news:0vlsm09nhmu5kgvbi2gc168af4m3pf2733@4ax.com...
> How about one DVB-T card and one Analogue card? I took my Hauppuage
> card out when I bough my Black Gold card. It would be nice to have
> them both working.

Nope, as the EPG will only handle one signal source at a time. However, in
contrast to MCE 2004, MCE 2005 is at least "tolerant" to having more tuners
in your machine. In MCE 2004 you had to disable the tuners you didn't want
to use in Device Manager, in MCE 2005 you can leave them all fully
installed, but it will only use the one(s) you configured the EPG for.

FWIW, I have two DVB-T cards and a Hauppauge PVR250MCE in my MCE2005
machine, and switch between them by reconfiguring the TV signal. This is
not suitable for real use, of course, since you'll lose your scheduled
recordings etc when you reconfigure. But if you're mainly into testing and
development, it's ok ;-)

Regards,«

-- 
Robert Schlabbach
e-mail: robert_s@gmx.net
Berlin, Germany


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