Re:Vista Media Center will not allow me to set up TV tuner

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This is disgusting! Really! You all should be embarassed!

You all have been talking around in circles for YEARS and still have yet to
ANSWER the FIRST question!

HOW<<< DO YOU GET PAST the "IR Hardware Not Detected" message?

NOT! - How do I spend extra money and effort to do something additional that
I don't care about?

NOT! - How do I be the *** of "cheap" or "stupid user" jokes?

If the actual answer is that it is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE OF
MICRO$$$$$OFT'S !@#R%^*(*&%^$@! ARROGANT HARD CODING programming practice,
then TELL THE TRUTH and say so in so many words! You won't get any argument
from me if you posit that MICRO$$$$$OFT is out of touch and DOESN'T CARE.
The landfills are full of stuff they wouldn't fix.

Besides, excuse me, but WHY SHOULD YOU CARE **WHY** so many people DON'T
NEED TO RECORD or otherwise DON'T NEED the remote or the blaster? If it is
the #3 MOST REQUESTED item, then THERE MIGHT JUST BE A REASON! If you don't
understand those reasons in spite of multiple people giving perfectly
adequate justifications, then it is YOUR fault for not getting it, not that
of the people posting! They should NOT be derided or made fun of! Stop
insulting them and actually show your vast intellectual power by spending
some thought on FIXING THE ACTUAL PROBLEM. Maybe a Registry hack? It could
be as simple as adding some characters to a string. Something else? Come
on! Take it as a challenge instead of propogating MICRO$$$$$OFT's arrogance
- those who are aplogizing for this grotesque corporate thoughtlessness are
in peril of being infected and subsumed by it. Maybe it's too late for some
- that sort of intellectual laziness is insidious.

No surprize, I fall into this popular but obviously misguided class of folks
who DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY we are NOT ALLOWED to see a signal that we can
observe coming into our computers in the MCE setup screen.

Oh, and by the way, I "DOWN"GRADED this computer to MCE 2005. It came with
Vista MCE, butI got tired of it blue screening every time I plugged in a USB
disk (and 20+++ other things - too long for this forum. I wanted to return
it to HP, but I kept trying to fix it and wound up keeping it just too long
to return). So now I'm faced with getting the drivers to work. The last
one was getting the IR driver to load (thanks to a post on another forum the
trick was to manually load the driver from the device manager as a USB HUB).
I didn't really care about it (it sat in the box for a year) but I had this
clearly misguided notion that if I loaded the IR Driver and got the remote
working that maybe I could get past the "IR Hardware not Detected" hard stop.
SILLY ME. MICRO$$$$$OFT is WAY TOO SMART to allow something that simple -
Everything must be hard coded, cryptic, hidden and/or invariant - Must
protect the stupid users from themselves, they might hurt something... Oh,
and yes, the remote works fine, except maybe for that blaster part, but I
can't tell BECAUSE THE THING REFUSES TO FINISH.

Not that it is anybody's business, but I have a perfectly good Satellite
Tivo (LINUX YEAH!!!!) in the living room with a projector and a 110" screen,
so that is where I do recording of anything I'd want to really concentrate
on watching. All I wanted to do here is to see the simple signal coming
from there into my office next door. BUT NO. MICRO$$$$$OFT WON'T LET ME.
And no, I don't want this piece of junk computer and its half baked
operating system and this brain dead application messing with my Tivo
recordings unattended. If I want it recorded I do so at the source.

So maybe the workaround (NOT AN **ANSWER**, mind you!!!!) is to spend a
pittance on another remote and IR box, but there is now a rub even on that.
Looking thru newegg, I don't see a single one that isn't for Vista only. I
already have one that was made for Vista, and yet here we are... Or maybe
find a way to get the s-video input onscreen that doesn't suck (no luck with
that - quarter screen and fuzzy at best). For some reason the folks that
wrote Media Player never thought that one might like to view a live signal -
that a tuner or capture device is a valid media source... Oh WAIT - that is
another MICRO$$$$$OFT product!!! What was I thinking?!?!?

Configuration:
HP m7760n REgraded to MCE xp 2005
Hauppage 1600, with HP remote & IR module (calls itself ehome)
upgraded to GeF8600 dual monitor

Sorry to sound like a jerk, but, when begging and gentle pleading by others
hasn't worked for years, perhaps will someone with the skill, training and
resources will be shamed enough by this diatribe to take the challenge and
think?

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