Re: Media Centre not looking very useful in the UK
- From: Eric Baines <EricBaines@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:09:01 -0700
This thread is odd - but I find MCE OK in the UK.
You say it is not compatible with Freeview - but it is. I use it with
Freeview.
Via freeview, I can also receive digital radio.
I can edit the recordings via Dcut or Nero 7 and burn to a DVD using Nero 7.
Using Freeview, I have never, ever had any problems with DRM.
I have to say, for what you want, you are probably better off with a
dedicated DVD recorder with a hard disk. But you should be bale to make MCE
do what you want.
"mattcross" wrote:
.
Being really stupid here but i have a HP media centre high end and i
dont know what i need to buy to link it into my Sjy Digibox or where to
input a cable into the tower?
Martin wrote:
*I've today just found out about it. Yes I know where have I been....
Anyway
I have been trying to find a pc based multimedia solution for my
lounge for
quite some time. When I found about about Microsofts software I
thought
great and was quite excited! But on reading about it further I am now
seeing
the disadvantages and limitations:
Recorded video cannot be edited
No DVB programme guide support for satellite recievers and cards
It records in DVR-MS format which is incompatible with all other
formats
Freeview not supported
Radio does not support RDS as far as I can see, which would be very
useful
for station naming
No support for DAB radio
Copyright protection restictions when viewing material on a different
pc to
the one it was recorded on
Thats just for starters... in all it seems inflexible and
controlled.
All I want to do is have a PC which will do the job of a DVD recorder
and
will be capable of pausing live TV and editing it before burning to
DVD. I
also want to be able to extract the audio stream of the recorded
video and
save it to MP3. Surely a machine can be built (be anyone) that will
be up to
the job?
Are there any capture cards and TV out cards that give a TV picture
as good
as a dedicated DVD recorder will give? Any good software anybody can
recommend? I would like to know your thoughts as maybe I am wrong
about
this. *
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mattcross
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