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What really is the situation with using Sky & Media Center?

  • 04-05-2007 2:46 PM replied on

    Re: What really is the situation with using Sky & Media Center?

    One option is to use the subscription card in one tuner & a Free TV card in the other (the 20 pound card that gives you C4, five, five US, five Life & Sky Three) the use Mark Salloway's Media Center Tuner Priority utility to force the subscription card to be used first for all Live TV & recordings http://www.salloway.org.uk/mediacenter/util/index.htm

    Hooking up the Sky box to MCE in the standard way via s-video &L/R audio with an analogue capture card like the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 does work very well. The picture quality isn't as good as direct DVB-S using a FloppyDTV or similar but it's pretty good for moderate sized TVs. You can substitute a Pacelink device for the IR bug for maximum channel changing reliability http://www.pacelink.co.uk/rf2link.htm

    Nigel Barker Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur Microsoft MCE MVP
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