Help with Hardware for Cable

[Ultim8]

Originally Posted by reeves2k2

i would say personally that the floppy is the easiest to use and set up but may become more difficult to soruce now production has stopped

i have only ever used media center for my front end and found win7 media center to be a hell of a lot better than its vista counterpart plus for me the default microsoft decoders work superbly for me i was using nvidia pure video decoder but on win 7 it had trouble with my hd channels and kept going out of sync and stuttering but the microsoft one is bob on .

some ppl are using media portal which is a open source product so updates and plugins etc are fairly frequent but heard it can be tricky to set up but have never dabled with it myself

basically for the needs you mentioned:

* record TV (2 tuners would be needed to watch oe chanel and rcord another)
* watch HD channels
* Has a guide (there is now a guide tool for media center which makes it a hell of a lot easier and is now nice and simple to use)
* and used as a library

they all pretty much do this as standard so it will be just a case of trying different ones to see which you like best

but from my personal point of view i would go win 7 media center
its pleasing on the eye and pretty simple to set up and use and now has a fair few decent plugins
plus you can also use your xbox as a extender with it

HTH

Great help thank you

[reeves2k2]

no worries we've all been in the same situation

[Cafe.Rcaer]

Don't forget that in 7MC you can mix tuner types (and in MP) so you can have 1 DVB-C tuner and augment it with DVB-T tuners.

If I was desparate, I would look at DBoxes with DVBLink. If I could wait, I would look to see what happens with DE's designs, wouldn't surprise me if they reappear branded differently...

[bm1400]

hi,a bit of help plse. I have a floppy dtv-c which used to work fine.but after working away for 6 months i cant get it to work.I have put in the new nagra keys with fausto as i used to do. i have tried the latest stealth 254 but still cant get it to work. i have put all the latest drivers & software on it.it picks up all of the channels but will not unscramble them emmulation is turned on. please help

[Ugg]

Try Vplug, it usually works out of the box and autoupdates