2009-01-14, 09:23 PM
I am only using Over the air High Definition Channels and they all have over 90 signal strength.
I have Windows Media Center for XP SP3
My computer is a AMD 3800
2 GB memory
ATI X1300 Video Card
1. I first tried Windows Media Center for XP and I am on SP3. It detected all the channels just fine for HD. I have found three major issues with it though.
a. No sound on my HD channels. (this was finally fixed magically somehow after I install a trial version of BeyondTV)
b. Random crashes of Media Center after just a few minutes or anytime doing multi tasking within XP. (this could be many reasons though as I never have used Media Center before)
c. Sometime the video is choppy and only a reboot seemed to fix the problem. I know speed can't be the issue and this was watching live TV and seems in my opinion to be more caused by the hardware encoding.
2. WinTV. Everything seems to work great in this program such as the video is great looking and I get sound. The problem with this program is it only detects one HDTV channel and I can tell you my signal strength with my outdoor on the roof antena for all the channels is around 92-98. I also received all the channels in Media Center as well as BeyondTV
3. BeyondTV works flawlessly and installing this program fixed my Media Center sound.
I also had been debating on going to 32 vista ultimate and upon upgrading to vista it turns out that windows will not boot past the microsoft logo (The part that loads almost immediately before windows) and it just hangs. I remove the card and it booted great and I configured my system the way I wanted to and put the card back in and still won't boot past the logo screen.
I have decided I like Vista so plan on keeping it. Any ideas?
I am going to put this in my other machine which is XP SP3 not media edition and see if it works any better.
I have Windows Media Center for XP SP3
My computer is a AMD 3800
2 GB memory
ATI X1300 Video Card
1. I first tried Windows Media Center for XP and I am on SP3. It detected all the channels just fine for HD. I have found three major issues with it though.
a. No sound on my HD channels. (this was finally fixed magically somehow after I install a trial version of BeyondTV)
b. Random crashes of Media Center after just a few minutes or anytime doing multi tasking within XP. (this could be many reasons though as I never have used Media Center before)
c. Sometime the video is choppy and only a reboot seemed to fix the problem. I know speed can't be the issue and this was watching live TV and seems in my opinion to be more caused by the hardware encoding.
2. WinTV. Everything seems to work great in this program such as the video is great looking and I get sound. The problem with this program is it only detects one HDTV channel and I can tell you my signal strength with my outdoor on the roof antena for all the channels is around 92-98. I also received all the channels in Media Center as well as BeyondTV
3. BeyondTV works flawlessly and installing this program fixed my Media Center sound.
I also had been debating on going to 32 vista ultimate and upon upgrading to vista it turns out that windows will not boot past the microsoft logo (The part that loads almost immediately before windows) and it just hangs. I remove the card and it booted great and I configured my system the way I wanted to and put the card back in and still won't boot past the logo screen.
I have decided I like Vista so plan on keeping it. Any ideas?
I am going to put this in my other machine which is XP SP3 not media edition and see if it works any better.
