Hey! Couple of things:
1 what kind of sighted asistance do you think I'll need?
2 I think I'm going to go for it! Maybe I will just get the xp version but I
thought now would be the time to get in to windows 7.
3 do you watch these shows from your computer monitor or does the signal get
sent back to the tv?
Thanks so much for your help.
bb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ford Blackwell" <blackwe...@ameritech.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: MEDIA CENTER COMPUTER
Yes, when you enter Media Center, you click on "My TV". That brings up
options for watching live, watching a previously recorded show or the
Guide. The Guide is a table arrangemnt of times and channels. You can
arrow along a channel for up to a few days and clicking on a show in the
future will give you the option to record a single episode or the series
at the same time every day.
On the other access, you can find the time you're interested in and arrow
up or down and see what's on each channel. Reading the times is a little
more difficult, but you can get the hand of it.
In addition to the "My TV" option, there's "My Music", "DVD, "Photoos, and
a few more.
Initial set up may require some sighted help especially if you're setting
up a surround sound system.
I use a 15" Phillips tv as my monitor. I generally leave it set so that
the Media Center runs through it. However, by pushing a couple of buttons
on the tv, I can use the tv independently of the computer.
The card that came with mine is a single source card so you can watch one
show and record one other channel at the same time. I believe you can get
cards that allow you to record a couple of things at the same time while
watching a third.
Recording shows takes up lots of space so get a system with as large a
hard drive as you can and back up the shows or move them to another drive
so they don't record over themselves!
Once a show is recorded, you can edit out commercials using a program like
Vide Redo Suite or Lifextender. The second is only availabe of Vista so
far as I know.
I probably record three or four shows a day for my kids and they
accummulate up to about 50 shows before they start recording over
themselves. So once a week I either edit the commercials out and save the
resultant file to a dvd or to another drive or move some of the recorded
shows until I can find the time for editing.
I don't know about how well this works in VISTA or Windows 7 machines, but
in my XP Media Center, it's pretty flawless.
Let me know if you have more questions. Sorry that I'm responding from a
different address.
Clifford
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Boyer" <bboyer...@gmail.com>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: MEDIA CENTER COMPUTER
Can you set up schedules and things like that? How about just watching tv
through it?
bb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Blackwell, Clifford" <cblackw...@cityofmadison.com>
To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 9:56 AM
Subject: RE: MEDIA CENTER COMPUTER
I don't know of where to go, but I use an XP Media Center computer with
Jaws and Charter cable. It all works pretty slickly.
I've heard that there may be a little less functionality with VISTA or
Windows 7 Media Center computers, but can't attest to that.
If you have questions, I'll try to answer them.
Though I can easily find tv programs, record them and play them back and
play dvds, I can't say that the interface for other functions isn't a
little clunky from time to time.
Clifford
-----Original Message-----
From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org
[mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Brett Boyer
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 10:24 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: MEDIA CENTER COMPUTER
Hi everyone. I'm looking in to getting a new desktop pc but not really
sure where to start. I've been looking at media center computers because
I would like to hook up my tv / cable box so I can have some form of
control.
Any tips or places to go for some information?
thanks in advance
bb
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