Re: Problem with manual TV recording

Evan,

Somewhere there is a disconnect or you are just reading what you want to
read in these replies. What everyone is trying to tell you is that the 100
or so channels available directly through the tuner card is not an MCE
limitation, it would be the same no matter if you were using BeyondTV or the
TV viewing app that comes with the card. It has nothing to do with it being
a "Media Center only tuner", it's a technology issue (digital signals vs.
analog). Until cable card tuners are widely available, that's the technology
that's available.

You ask what's wrong with manual tuning, nothing other than it's kind of
defeating part of the purpose of MCE (or any PVR for that matter). If you
want to record two different shows during an evening when you are gone and
those shows happen to be on different stations, you have no way of recording
it, because your system can't change the channel. As to whether the majority
of people here use plain old analog/coax direct or digital/extended with a
set top box; from my couple of years on this group, I would tend to agree
that a larger chuck are in the latter group.

The point is, you have your system set up incorrectly, but are complaining
that MCE doesn't work right, it's kind of like not ever setting the clock on
a VCR and complaining that you have to push the record button to tape
anything.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida


"Evan" <eb11x@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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First of all, to use "most of us" implies your having knowledge of a
large,
large percentage of people on this board. I doubt you have such stats, so
don't make blanket statements like that. Second, why should I make these
modifications for extra expense when I am not that satisified overall with
Media Center in general? I would have had more enjoyment from a non-Media
Center TV PC by adding the TV card of my choice instead of the very
limited
capabilities Media-Center-only tuner, not to mention wretched Media Center
support. I didn't have this problem until the most recent Updates Rollup,
either. Third, what is all your problem with manual tuning? These replies
offer no solution whatsoever, only purile criticism and technological
bibble-babble about something I've no interest in doing.

Evan


"P-Chip" wrote:

Evan,

Most of us here are using digital STB's to get the feed to the MCE tuner,
but none of us ever resorts to manual recording unless we're trying to
outsmart the tricky programmers on networks.

As Tom pointed out, you will need an IR blaster going from the back of
your
MCE remote receiver into the IR receiver of your STB. Then, you will have
to
go thru that initial setup wizard that sets up the STB channels to be
changed
by the MCE signals. Once you do that, you will never have to do manual
recording again -- you can relax and let your remote do it for you by
pressing a single button on the MCE guide.

Just curious, is there a reason you don't already have this arrangement?

-- Pat

"Evan" wrote:

Hello - I am not using the Guide because I am using a coaxial cable
feed
direct from a set-top cable tuner box. The PC's analog tv tuner must
remain
on channel 3 (as a television monitor would) in order to allow the
set-top
box to serve as the tuner. Why? We're on digital cable, and this
arrangement
is necessary to record programs or films which air on channels outside
the
range of the PC's analog tv tuner. Also, the broadcast image seems much
better than the analog cable signal directly to the PC's analog tv
tuner. If
I use The Guide to record (which I would love to do, make no mistake
about
that), the PC's analog tv tuner will tune into that channel (or attempt
to)
instead of remaining on channel 3. So an hour or so of static sight
and
sound would be recorded instead of the television program. Capiche?
I still am puzzled by the 1/2 hour cut-off time when using manual
record? I
hope there isn't something taboo about daring to record manually? And
please, let's toss out the idea of broadcast recording for a minute and
consider the same 1/2 cut-off time happening to somebody digitizing
their own
camcorder video using the composite inputs on most MCE certified tv
tuner
cards. How does such a scenario apply?

--
Evan


"Jaime" wrote:

I don't understand why you aren't using the Guide and let MCE change
the
channels?

How are you setting up the recording now -- always manually?
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida

"Evan" <eb11x@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi - I hope someone out there has a solution here, or when it comes
time
to
get a new PC, I might as well get standard Vista...

After recording programs in the past using analog cable, I
switched over
to
a digital set-top box about 1 month ago and I began to have my
recordings
stop about 1/2 hour or so into the 2 hours + I was planning to
record. I
am
no longer using the Guide to select programs to record, have
selected "do
not
use the Guide", since getting cable from the set-top box now means
leaving
the Media Center Tuner on Channel 3 all the time now and tuning
channels
through the set-top box...

This problem is similar to 2 others', though neither of them
mentioned how
their Media Centers are connected to "the outside world"...
--
Evan





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