Re: Using a "not supported" TV tuner card

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Media Center should ignore any non-supported tuners, so as long as you use
the tuner's software you should be fine.

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

"Konstantin Loguinov" <stillsuperk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eQX%230HO$FHA.3872@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Everybody,
>
> Got a question for you. I know that there is a list of various hardware
> (TV tuners, video cards, etc) that is supported by Windowx XP MCE 2005.
> The question is, what happens if I install a TV tuner that isn't supported
> by MCE? Is it going to crash and burn the whole operating system? I find
> it hard to believe it would do something like that.
>
> Here is what I want to do. I have a bunch of VHS tapes I want to conver
> into DVDs. I got a TV card that will allow me to capture video into the
> right format, but it isn't not on the list of supported hardware. I want
> to install it in the computer in addition to the TV card that is supported
> by MCE and use it while I'm converting VHS tapes. I'm not gonna use Media
> Center to capture video, I'll use the software supplied with the tuner. Is
> it possible?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Konstantin
>


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