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Configuring MCE2005 Remote to change channels on Live TV
Posted on May 1st, 2006 | 1 Comments

Hi all, New to the forum, apologies if this has already been asked and answered. I have MCE2005 setup (running on Dell 5150c). Setting up Media Centre Live TV I can't get past setting up the MCE...

Media Center + SP2
Posted on April 30th, 2006 | 0 Comments

I've upgraded - again (about the 6th time!!) - to SP2 this time determined not to uninstall it because I can't find work arounds. I cannot play music in Media Center - TV is fine, radio is fine, EPG...

Problem with TV Signal
Posted on April 30th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Hi, My Black Gold tuner has suddenly started coming up with no TV Signal, I tried setting up the TV signal again and no channels found. I've added a Hauppage USB2 and that works fine, if i use just...

Poor image quality of video
Posted on April 29th, 2006 | 2 Comments

I have been using a DVB-T terrestrial card, recording TV to my PC and watching back on my PC (with PowerDVD) or transferring to DVD, to watch on my TV. The picture quality has been excellent,...

Setting up MCE 2005
Posted on April 27th, 2006 | 0 Comments

I just thought I would impart some perhaps helpful advice for those of you building or thinking of building your own Media Center PC. I was new to MCE 2005 a couple of months ago and it has been a...

PC not going back on standby after recording
Posted on April 26th, 2006 | 2 Comments

My MCE box happily wakes up from Standby to record a program from the TV, but then never goes back to sleep again. I've got the Power Options set to Standby after an hour. I've tried changing this...

Missing services
Posted on April 25th, 2006 | 4 Comments

I’m currently using a home-built PC, with MCE 2005 and an AverTV USB2.0 external tuner. This has worked fine for the last six months, receiving the full range of Freeview channels, but yesterday,...

*Major* issue long overdue for fix - 'another airing was recorded' NOT
Posted on April 24th, 2006 | 8 Comments

Dear MS Media Center team This issue has been reported here before, many months ago, by several people. Yet still we are losing recordings to it. The problem is that for many series recordings (at...

PROBLEM: Hitachi LCD TV incorrectly picking up resolution
Posted on April 24th, 2006 | 2 Comments

i have a hitachi 32ld6200 LCD tv and an advent media center computer plugged in via the vga input (the DVI wont detect the media center for some reason). when i set the resolution at 1280x768...

Media Center Tv, Picture freezes, please help!
Posted on April 23rd, 2006 | 7 Comments

I have MCE 2004, on a HP m477.uk PC. I have a Happauge WinTV-PVR PCI II (Encoder 16) TV card. My PC is a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz, 1GB RAM, DVD ROM & DVD Re-writer drives, 140BG Hard Drive, Sound Blaster...

MCE & Home Choice
Posted on April 21st, 2006 | 1 Comments

Hi, I'm currently about to move house and have sky working with my MCE PC's. I am looking at changing my cable provider to Home Choice and was wondering if Home Choice is compatible with the MCE for...

EPG: Wrong shows recording on UKGold
Posted on April 20th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Headend ID: 540004 Channel: UKGold 125 "I'm Alan Partridge" listed actual show broadcast is "Little Britain" This happens every night --

Audio clash using 2x Sky Boxes with MCE
Posted on April 20th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hello all. First post here so hoping to gain some useful advice. Tech Spec first: Hi-Grade DMS 2 with twin analogue tuners. JVC 28" CRT TV. Panasonic Sky Box (3 or 4 years old) Thomson Sky Box (Brand...

No EPG data after installing new TV Card?
Posted on April 20th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Hi, Just installed a new Digital Dual TV Card from Terratec, but I can't get any guide information? It worked fine with my old single tuner card and there are no error codes and MCE seems to...

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Posted on April 20th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Visit www.10footgames.net to download games for your media center. mceLights Version 1.0 *NEW* The goal of this game is to deactivate all the lights on the board. To do this, select one of the...

Poor Sound with Live TV
Posted on April 19th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Hi First off here are my hardware specs: Silverstone SST-LC09 Silver, Commell LV675D Mini ITX, Intel Pentium M 1.73Ghz, Hauppauge WinTV NovaT MCE Running MCE all service packed, PowerDVD v6 Deluxe...

Sky's Change of Channel Numbers
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Sky now uses 4 digit channel numbers for Radio stations but retains 3 digit numbers for TV. Is there any way of setting up Media Centre to access either format from the remote? My Sky Box is the...

EPG: Errors with Reruns recorded as First Run
Posted on April 14th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi, first up the UK Guide Issue Submission Form has stopped working for me. Create Report does nothing at all. I am running IE7 Preview version, but it used to work fine. I have all security...

MCE/xbox360 newbie request
Posted on April 13th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Hi all, hope some one out there can help me. I recently got MCE and linked it with my xbox360 all that's working fine and I watch movies and stuff streamed from my pc. Now my next job is to find...

Specify where MCE stores Recorded TV
Posted on April 13th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Does anyone konw how to specify where MCE stores recorder TV?