Time to upgrade, advise

[kirschey]

Hey,

I read the posts about windows 7 which was helpful, but not complete. I am going to upgrade in a couple of weeks and wanted to find out if anyone know which version is best for this?

First, can I use the 64bit version with GBPVR?

Does anyone have a preference of home vs pro? I read the comparisons, and am not sure if pro will benefit the PVR.

Thanks a ton.

[sub]

First, can I use the 64bit version with GBPVR?

Yes.

Does anyone have a preference of home vs pro? I read the comparisons, and am not sure if pro will benefit the PVR.

I dont know. I've never used Home, but I'm not aware of any reason it wont work with it. I've personally used it with Pro and Ultimate and these worked fine.

[kirschey]

Thanks sub for the quick response and the hard work!

[philly_phenom]

if you are using one or more digital tuners, make sure you grab the WizBDAChannelTool & save off your channel mappings before clobber your existing setup.

The config app seems to have issues w/ channel scan in Windows 7 - I could never get it to detect any channels. (although I've heard that using codecs other than the Windows 7 codecs is better).

If you save off your mappings with the tool, you can load them again after re-installing w/o having to go through the channel scan process.

In my case, thankfully, I installed windows 7 to a seperate disk, so I could go back to XP & save off the channel mappings & now it's all good...

[kirschey]

Thanks for the advise, but I think I am doing it all from scratch, hardware and software. I may use my existing DB, but that is it.