Re: Does Media Center support analog?

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I have the KWorld USB Stick hybrid. With the software that
came with it, I can get both analog (NTSC) and digital (ATSC)
over-the-air channels from the antenna. Media Center only picks
up the ATSC digital channels. This was my initial setup - with
antenna connection.

My next move was to configure the tuner connected to my
basic cable. First, I configured the software that came with it.
It detected all the analog channels available from the basic
cable. Very nice. Next, I tried to configure Windows
Media Center with the basic cable connection. Windows
Media Center always downloads the digital ATSC channels
available in my area code! Where can I tell Windows
Media Center that the tuner is now using the basic cable
connection???

Thanks in advance.




"JW" <JW@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Some hybrid USB tuners only have MC compatible drivers for the ATSC tuner
since the tuner does not have an analog encoder chip.
What make/model tuner do you have?
Also MC will not support both tuners on a hybrid card since they can not
be used concurrently.
Cable service is cable service and both analog and digital channels are
present on the wire.

"C C" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello! I bought a usb tv tuner and it only supports NTSC and ATSC.
I tried to setup Media Center in my Vista Ultimate PC but MC only
tries to setup ATSC channels! Well, the tuner is connected to a basic
cable which has analog cable only (maybe there are QAM signals, too).

I'm lost! How can I configure Media Center to receive analog signal from
the cable?

Thanks in advance. I'm new to Media Center. I tried to avoid media
center because I don't like the interface. I only do multimedia on my
PC when I watch some clips from the internet. I watch dvd from my
entertainment center.




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