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Article #2446Re: Cop-out or valid for M-Audio to say they "don't support" their card running with XP MCE?
From: Arny Krueger
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:18
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:18
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"Romeo Rondeau" <eveyone@ease.com> wrote in message news:FAn7j.77129$YL5.8985@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net > Arny Krueger wrote: >> "David B." <brooks.dj@nomail.com> wrote in message >> news:uO0Gx22OIHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl >>> Do you even know what Media Center is/does? >>> It's been around for 5 years and is used by many people >>> as a PVR/cable box replacement, does a great job, it's >>> also available in Vista. >> >> Compared to running any of the PVR software packages >> that are sold with video tuner and capture cards, it >> really doesn't seem to do anything that is terribly >> unique. > It does look cool on an HDTV, and that's what it was > designed to do :-) Yes, but the PVR software/hardware does the same stuff. If you're in the market, ADS cards come with what seems to be the best software. I picked up a pretty functional HDTV package for XP by ADS from Amazon for about $60. If you want to expunge what the PVR software does to your system from your system, you just uninstall it. So far I haven't found that it creates any big black holes while installed, other than creating a lot of I/O when you are recording or playing video, or when you are time-shifting. One other thing is that the third party software that comes with the TV tuner and video capture cards seems to have a fair amount of cross-vendor compatibility. For example, I've inter-operated PVR software and cards from ADS and ATI. If you run Windows MCE your tuner/capture card needs to provide special software for running with Windows MCE. I've run cards that came with MCE drivers with other vendor's PVR software. So MCE reduces your options.
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