Can MCE support freeview signal and an analogue signal such as cable simultaneously?

[Participant]

Hello

As above really. I've run a cable from the loft antenna down to my ComproT750 card for freeview which works fine, but I also want to set up my PC to be able to watch Sky Sports from the Virgin box downstairs. The TV card can theoretically do this no problems, but does anyone know if MCE will support both signals at the same time so that I can go from one to the other as if I were flicking channels?

Many thanks.

 

[Bomag]

Nope, only one channel list is supported. Vista is apparently the same.

The easiest method is to dual boot one copy of windows for freeview, the other for Virgin.

 

[Participant]

Thanks for the response. Blurgh that is shocking imo. Surely it can't be that hard to enable two channel support.

Anyway looks like my only option is to pay for Virgin multi-room (rip off) as I don't fancy dual boot.