Dual Channel HDTV Card?
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Hey,
With these, does the captured quality live up to expectations? Is the output picture as good as a built in freeview tuner in a tv?
Thanks
With these, does the captured quality live up to expectations? Is the output picture as good as a built in freeview tuner in a tv?
Thanks
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Afaik reports on the internet say t2 works fine in wmc 7
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Ive just recieved one of new Black Gold Cards,
The quality of the BBC HD stuff is excellent no doubt but the card / drivers seem buggy as hell and not too stable
what code are u using? very important
Maybe he means version? I'm using 8, seems fine. What exactly are these 'bugs' you speak of?
In case you're having problems with channels mysteriously dissappearing....
When i first installed it, it worked flawlessly then all of a sudden it kept telling me that there was no signal on most of the channels
I found out a few days ago that this was due to media center irritatingly rescanning for channels by itself.... and very unhelpfully switching from the transmitter that was working perfectly to another which doesn't!
I found this Registry fix which stops the scan:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Service and create a new key called BackgroundScanner
In the new key, create a new DWORD called PeriodicScanEnabled and give it a value of 0
Not had the problem since
In case you're having problems with channels mysteriously dissappearing....
When i first installed it, it worked flawlessly then all of a sudden it kept telling me that there was no signal on most of the channels
I found out a few days ago that this was due to media center irritatingly rescanning for channels by itself.... and very unhelpfully switching from the transmitter that was working perfectly to another which doesn't!
I found this Registry fix which stops the scan:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Service and create a new key called BackgroundScanner
In the new key, create a new DWORD called PeriodicScanEnabled and give it a value of 0
Not had the problem since
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Well it windows 7 which uses it's default codec for all tv which I haven't messed around with. I found the card unstable in that sometimes when rebooting it wouldn't be able to tune into the hd channels - I've done a clean install of win 7 which seems to have improved things but I'll see what it's like to live with for a few weeks. Now someone just needs to get ms to pull it's finger out and update the guide and write a driver to convert the audio into DD 5.1
I'm really not following your train of thought here... Have you used the card with windows 7? - MC in windows 7 unlike previous versions has a built in codec to handle tv - now it may not be the best deinerlacer in the world but it's a pretty solid codec that just works and cannot be changed without farting around in the registry. I'm not convinced by the reliability of the card which in my very vague experience points towards first version/generation drivers ... So why the frik would I want to start fannying about with the registry to chance the codec windows uses for tv ?
Okay I didn't read that inside out.
I see you're using Windows Media Player. I thought you were using a 3rd party software like DVB Dream because I know from experience software like this requires a good codec and a strong signal of course.
Your missing channels could be down the Media Center and what i mentioned above. Since using that registry edit i have not lost a single channel.
As for the Guide, all data for HD Channel info is in WMC:
Tasks - Settings - Guide - Edit Channels - Click the channel - Edit listings
Use normal channels for their HD alternatives and for the BBC HD Preview channel..... the listings are there, it just doesn't have a number assigned to it, just keep scrolling down till you find it!