I would say I agree with that. What's more, you can get pluggins for it anyway to do stuff. Not to bash the stuff that comes with the cards, but WMC is a good well rounded starting point. It's all Jonathan Mozen uses, he has no TV in his living room. That's what I want to do. Just have the ultimate home theater PC, and use it for every thing and I would basicly just use a TV as the screen to get the big screen experience.
-----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary King Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 12:57 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful It's true that there is other software that can operate a tuner card and schedule recordings, but accessibility is not guaranteed. The advantages of Media Center are that in the program itself, the controls are standard, eliminating the need for any scripts, and you can read the descriptions of each program in the Program Guide. Also, Media Center comes with Windows, giving us a standard user interface to work with. Media Center in Vista and Windows 7 must be fairly similar since my remote control that was designed for Vista also works well with Media Center in Windows 7. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain" <chalt...@gmail.com> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 10:05 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful > I'll let Jianluca answer for himself, but as he says in his email he > uses the software that comes with his USB TV tuner card from Hauppauge. > He says this software is accessible. > > I did something a few years ago, using the software that came with a TV > tuner card I got cheap. I think the software was PVR by KWorld. I don't > recall the manufacturer of the TV tuner card, but like I said, this was > a few years ago, so I'm sure neither the TV tuner card or the software > is still around. I just use this as an example that there may be other > software out there besides Windows Media Center that let's you control > and record from your TV tuner card. > > On 05/01/12 21:32, Hank Smith wrote: >> Hello >> what do you use to control software if you don't use windows media >> center? >> Hank >> On 1/5/2012 10:54 AM, Gianluca Apollaro wrote: >>> Hi everyone. Here in Italy for whatching the tv on my pc I use a usb >>> tv card from Hauppauge, and I can even record in .ts format. The >>> software that comes with it is accessible, in fact, I don't use >>> mediacenter, I don't like it at all. I run Windows 7 64 bit version as >>> OS >>> Best regards, >>> Gianluca from italy. >>> SkypeID: gianluca8815 >>> >>> Il 05/01/2012 18:22, vrvaug...@mailzone.com ha scritto: >>>> Hi Folks, I'm sorry, but I haven't been able to get more than 2 out >>>> of 7, email addresses of the people who said they wanted to be in on >>>> a conversation regarding television on their computer. >>>> >>>> Brett Boyer's and Gary Kings email addresses worked, but the >>>> following did not: >>>> Steven Hics, David Tanner, Brent Harding, Hamit Campos and Gary Wood. >>>> >>>> I'd be glad to pass on the information I have to who ever would be >>>> willing to take this conversation project on. I think we could all >>>> bennefit from each others knowledge and experiences. >>>> >>>> Sincerely, Vicky Vaughan >>>> vrvaug...@mailzone.com >>>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >>>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >> >> > > > -- > Christopher (CJ) > chalt...@gmail.com > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
