Win7 Media Centre - is it stable?

[Confused Stu]

Originally Posted by Cafe.Rcaer

I would say the "best" thing to do is to chuck a dual tuner freeview card in alongside.

Wouldn't that cause a problem with our Floppy's? They report themselves as DVB-T cards, so if we add Freeview cards too then the system will think it's got 4 DVB-T cards. The problem being that the Floppys will be running on one set of frequencies (the ones we set in the registry) and the Freeview cards running on a different set. Suppose you could go through and set preferred tuners on each channel but how long would that take!!

[CharlieRam]

No conflict problems stu, Like I said in my previous post. I have 2 freeview and 2 freesat and also the DVBSBridge which is a virtual DVB-T tuner. When you set it up configure the tuners manually, I first sellected my 2 sat tuners then it asks if you want to set up more, so next came the 2 dvb-t and last of all my virtual dvb-t tuner.

[Confused Stu]

I stand corrected - thanks for that info Charlie.

[Cafe.Rcaer]

Yep, that's right. Definitely worth doing - it gives you extra tuners for the "crossover" channels without having to buy another DVB-C setup. That guideI di shows you how to set it up with an analogue tuner for the guide, although Guide Tool is looking good now.

Even with my two FireDTV's I've chucked a dual freeview tuner in. We have more recorded TV than we can shake a stick at

[htpcman]

Originally Posted by Confused Stu

Short version - is Windows 7 RC stable enough to use every day on your only HTPC? I do.

Nicely put. Same here I've been using it for a few months now since RC and have been more than happy with it.

Only minor issue I've had has been with the occasional BSOD after sleep which I think is either related to one of my drivers (my current suspect is ati driver for onboard HD3200) or some duff memory. Haven't quite got to the bottom of it yet..... but it wouldn't deter me from recommending Win 7 to anyone.

[Confused Stu]

Originally Posted by htpcman

Nicely put. Same here I've been using it for a few months now since RC and have been more than happy with it.

Only minor issue I've had has been with the occasional BSOD after sleep which I think is either related to one of my drivers (my current suspect is ati driver for onboard HD3200) or some duff memory. Haven't quite got to the bottom of it yet..... but it wouldn't deter me from recommending Win 7 to anyone.

Odd, haven't experienced any BSOD myself and I'm using HD3200 as well (Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H rev1.0). I'm using the ATI 9.8 drivers, power button set to sleep and hybrid sleep is disabled. Beyond that, I'm pretty much standard on the power settings. Oh, and I'm on W7 64bit, if that helps narrow anything down.

[ppenno192]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my post

I have now upgraded to Win7 (As you can see from my Signature) and I am also finding it a lot more stable than Vista all-round.

I have also been beta testing DVB Logics new DVBlink TVSource software and that is shaping up to be a most excelent programe. I will report back to this fourm when the testing is completed.