"TV Tuner card on my new HP Pavilion Elite m9398d Desktop PC"
There are some rather complex issues with TV Tuner cards and Vista/Media
Center. (Mostly software related)
For instance my "new" HP laptop was supplied with two remote controls--One
mainly used for HP's
Laptop presentation capabilities, and one used primarily for Media center.
Talk about a split personality!
A major issue seems to be the lack of Media Center support for a specific
type of "QUAM"? encoding used by cable companies on other than broadcast
channels.
Microsoft has evidently declined to support this on "existing"? Vista SP-1
systems, unless the system is returned to OEM "Brick" non SP-1 status, and
the OEM has the Media Center upgrade available. Evidently the system can
then be "upgraded" to SP-1 and the additional capabilities might be
retained. Since this seems to be an ongoing issue, I have no idea what will
ultimately be the final result.
Had I known about this Fiasco, I'd have bought a very basic Laptop instead
of a "Multimedia" model with a TV Tuner.
"Richard G. Harper" <> wrote in message
news:eyh%...
> Yes, it is true that Windows Media Center requires a special remote. You
> can usually tell if the remote you have will work by checking to see if
> there is a "Windows" logo key on the remote - this is the Media Center
> button. If there is no Media Center button, then the remote is not going
> to work no matter what you try to do with it.
>
> You may also need to load Media Center support drivers for the remote and
> sensor, those should be on the HP web site if needed.
>
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> "Jimmy Hsu" <> wrote in message
> news:ed7j$...
>>I have a TV Tuner card on my new HP Pavilion Elite m9398d Desktop PC. I'm
>>trying to set up Vista's Windows Media Center to work with the HP Remote
>>Control that came with the PC. WMC detected the TV signals from my Cable
>>Set top Box with no problems. However, it kept insisting that the IR
>>hardware is not detected. Hence, I've not been able to set up the HP
>>Remote Control. Someone said I needed the eHome IR driver for the the
>>built in IR hardware to detect the Remote Control. Then another person
>>said Vista has built this in the OS already. Yet another person said I
>>needed to buy a Microsoft Remote Control and IR Receiver to work with WMC
>>because Microsoft had rigged Vista so that only its Remote will work with
>>WMC. I'm utterly confused. In any case, I've tried googling for this
>>eHome driver (for Vista) without success. Any help. Thanks
>
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