Re: Upgrade from XP Home Edition to Media Center Edition

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From: terri (support_at_thetabletpc.net)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 06:41:10 -0800

The Hauppauge 250 is fine, but you'll need better graphics card. You'll
also need a program like WinDVD or PowerDVD, etc. Your other computer specs
are fine.

Here's a list of the supported cards for MCE2005 -
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/partners/dfw/partnerlisting.mspx 

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"RobertStokes" <rob@robertstokes.net> wrote in message 
news:1101128682.598207.231800@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> I'm actually looking to do exactly the same thing as ATRSIN posted. I
> have a Dell Dimension 8250 desktop running XP Home and would like it to
> become more of an entertainment PC than just a box upstairs. I'm
> getting a 32 inch LCD screen for the wall and then want to be able to
> use the computer normally (ie. email, web browsing, play games, use MS
> Office, etc) as well as watch TV, record TV to hard disk (and then use
> the DVD burner to record to DVD), play my music (MP3) through the home
> stereo system, and such like.
>
> I was going to reformat the HD and install a copy of MCE 2005, but as
> to what else I need? Would a Hauppage WinTV-PVR-250 do the job for the
> TV tuner, or is not actually a tuner? And MCE doesn't come with the
> codec needed to watch/record TV - is that what you are saying? I have a
> nVidia GeForce3 256Mb video card - is this going to be good enough? PC
> spec is P4 3.0GHz, 512Mb RAM, 120Gb HD.
> Sorry, I'm very new to all of this!
>
> Thanks
> Rob
>