can you please explain what you did to get it working? i am a comcast customer with a hd box and a dta box running into mc on win 7.
burning questions:
-which remote did you have to learn (cable box or dta)?
-which channels do you get?
thanks!
> On Sunday, May 02, 2010 6:21 PM TomAZ wrote:
> I was told I had to upgrade to Comcast DTA box to continue receiving
> TV. I get my TV through Dell XPS with Windows Mediacenter Edition
> Version 2002. (XP SP3).
> I have been using this setup for years with no trouble.
> With DTA activated I cannot use MCE remote or keyboard to change
> channels, cannot set up to record programs, cannot select programs from
> guide.
> If you know without reading further that I will never get this
> working, I'd like to know so I can quit messing with it and cancel
> comcast TV since it is now useless to me.
>
> I have followed instructions at
>
> http://customer.comcast.com/%28S%28w...9-c6b76dce5edb
>
>
> and tried everything at
> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...2d4f0dcdd60eb4
> and
> http://getsatisfaction.com/comcast/t..._converter_box
>
> One poster at last thread ended up saying:
> "I solved this problem by spending money. I did everything possible to
> get my MCE 2005 and XP to work and it AINT happening. MCE 2005 WILL
> NOT WORK with the new signal in a way that the GUIDE changes the
> channel." His solution was to buy new computer with Windows 7.
>
> Not a viable option just to watch TV for me.
>
> Process so far:
>
> I have the comcast DTA plugged into TV card per instructions, with
> cable in from wall into DTA and then out to computer TV card.
> I do not have an extender plugged into the DTA.
> I plugged an IR blaster cable into port 1 in back of MCE remote IR
> receiver, with red light at end pasted on the middle front face of the
> Comcast DTA over the IR "eye" on the front window. (Checked with
> flashlight to make sure I found it.)
>
> 1. Open WMC
> 2. Selected settings, then TV settings, then TV settings, then Set Up
> Your TV Signal
> 3. Chose "I will manually configure my TV signal" (tried auto also
> with same end result. Incidentally, "auto" always says that I have 2
> DTA boxes, which is not correct, which is why I went manual.)
> 4. Chose cable, set top box, configure 2 tuners: was able to see a
> working signal on Channel 3.
> 5. IR port 1 resulted in HW not detected error, so I switched to IR
> port 2 also not detected.
> 6. Plugged in both IR blasters into ports 1 and 2 of MCE IR remote
> receiver, pasting them side by side over the "eye" of the comcast box
> and was finally able to get recognition that I had an IR device.
> 7. Chose to "reconfigure all set-top box settings
> Identified settop box by changing channel with COmcast remote -
> worked
> 8. When I got to the test for the MCE remote, I could not change
> channels or test speed, so I went back and...
> 9. Said "no" I did not have a remote for the set-top box. Entered
> Motorola Set top box, tried all 8 codes and none would work so I chose
> 2 digits as highest tv channel I could receive even though not true.
> 10. After testing 3 codes found one that would allow me to enter the
> number, press OK and change channels with the MCE remote talking to
> the MCE IR receiver.
>
> Finally, I thought I had finally licked the problem! But you
> cannot get out of the wizard at this point: you now have to prepare
> for set-top box setup
>
> 11. Selected working signal through channel 3
> Next I am asked if I want to
> Modify settings for changing channels or
> Reconfigure all set top box settings.
>
> I do not want to do either since I THINK that MCE is working at this
> point, but cannot cancel out without losing settings so I
> choose first option, knowing what will happen
>
> 12. Selected 2 digits for highest number of channel again
> 13. select how I change channels again
> 14. Test channel settings and once again, the MCE remote will not be
> recognized and I cannot change channels. And NOW I cannot even
> continue in the wizard, getting repeated prompts that I need to enter
> a channel number even after I have.
> 15. So I have cancelled again and given up
>
> I cannot even record live TV since If I use the comcast remote to watch
> channel 60 and click record on the MCE remote or keyboard for record,
> it starts recording whatever it remembers as the last station it was
> able to see.
>
> I have tried manual, I have tried auto, I went through process of
> "teaching" the DTA remote by entering all number into the MCE sensor
> twice. End results is always failure.
>
> I cannot imagine that there is anything else to try but if there is,
> let me know before I cancel the service. Thanks.
>> On Sunday, May 02, 2010 8:49 PM TomAZ wrote:
>> Answering my own question for now:
>> 1. I experimented with both IR blaster cables and found that only one
>> would work.
>> 2. Even though my tuner card supports 2 tuners, I selected only 1
>>
>> Results: finally working. I still do not understand why setup
>> interpreted 2 tuners as 2 set top boxes.
>>
>> Sorry if anyone wasted too much time reading my post above.
>>> On Monday, May 03, 2010 2:48 PM Reginald Blue wrote:
>>> TomAZ wrote:
>>>
>>> How would you want it (or expect it) to interpret it?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Reginald Blue
>>> "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my
>>> telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my
>>> telephone."
>>> - Bjarne Stroustrup (originator of C++) [quoted at the 2003
>>> International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces]
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