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From: albert on 13 Dec 2006 11:40
I have a Gateway machine that had MCE, but I use it primarily for business
and decided to rebuild/reinstall using WinXP Pro. I really had no use for
all the media bells and whistles that MCE offered me. However, although
not of great practical importance to my needs, I would like to have the
tuner operational on the machine [and the FM radio would be nice also]. [If
the Mets get further along into the baseball playoffs next year, I will most
definitely want a TV tuner........ then again, the Mets have been breaking
my heart forever, <sigh>so maybe it won't be that important to me next
October</sigh>]

Back in the days of Win95, I had an ATI AIW card [ironically, with much less
memory than my present card and machine, that AIW software could do more of
the TV functions I wanted than the MCE software that came on this
machine --- like monitoring multiple TV channels, ].

The machine has a Powercolor tuner
http://support.gateway.com/s/vidcard/TVTuner/104185/104185nv.shtml

Win Win XP Pro, I have everything I want, except that the Tuner no longer
works -- no software to run it. I have installed the ATI driver for the
card --
http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?st=pn&param=104185
-- but presently, according to the Device Manager, the OS doesn't even know
the card is in the machine.

I'd like go, at least initially, as cheap as possible [it ain't baseball
season]. Is there a way to pull the [just barely] adequate Tuner software
off my Gateway WinMCE disk ? If so, how do I identify what executable[s]
constitute that functionality?

If there isn't a practical use for my MCE OEM disk, then I am guessing I
should get an aftermarket program.

I was hoping to find, at ATI support pages, or on the Powercolor support
pages, freely downloadable tuner software for the Powercolor -- but I was
unable to find anything at either site that I could download. It may be
there, but I could not find it.

So, if there is nothing I can use on the MCE disk, or download from
Powercolor's or ATI sites, then what would you recommend for my Powercolor
card?

These are the aftermarket programs I am considering. If I read their
support info correctly, both would work with my card

[less expensive]
http://www.ctpvr.com/
[more expensive]
http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/default.asp

Your comment and suggestions as to what I might do/try are much appreciated.

TIA
albert








From: T Shadow on 14 Dec 2006 03:51
"albert" <albert.h(a)att.net> wrote in message
news:92Wfh.484798$QZ1.439023(a)bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> I have a Gateway machine that had MCE, but I use it primarily for business
> and decided to rebuild/reinstall using WinXP Pro. I really had no use for
> all the media bells and whistles that MCE offered me. However, although
> not of great practical importance to my needs, I would like to have the
> tuner operational on the machine [and the FM radio would be nice also].
[If
> the Mets get further along into the baseball playoffs next year, I will
most
> definitely want a TV tuner........ then again, the Mets have been breaking
> my heart forever, <sigh>so maybe it won't be that important to me next
> October</sigh>]
>
> Back in the days of Win95, I had an ATI AIW card [ironically, with much
less
> memory than my present card and machine, that AIW software could do more
of
> the TV functions I wanted than the MCE software that came on this
> machine --- like monitoring multiple TV channels, ].
>
> The machine has a Powercolor tuner
> http://support.gateway.com/s/vidcard/TVTuner/104185/104185nv.shtml
>
> Win Win XP Pro, I have everything I want, except that the Tuner no longer
> works -- no software to run it. I have installed the ATI driver for the
> card --
> http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?st=pn&param=104185
> -- but presently, according to the Device Manager, the OS doesn't even
know
> the card is in the machine.
>
> I'd like go, at least initially, as cheap as possible [it ain't baseball
> season]. Is there a way to pull the [just barely] adequate Tuner
software
> off my Gateway WinMCE disk ? If so, how do I identify what executable[s]
> constitute that functionality?
>
> If there isn't a practical use for my MCE OEM disk, then I am guessing I
> should get an aftermarket program.
>
> I was hoping to find, at ATI support pages, or on the Powercolor support
> pages, freely downloadable tuner software for the Powercolor -- but I was
> unable to find anything at either site that I could download. It may be
> there, but I could not find it.
>
> So, if there is nothing I can use on the MCE disk, or download from
> Powercolor's or ATI sites, then what would you recommend for my Powercolor
> card?
>
> These are the aftermarket programs I am considering. If I read their
> support info correctly, both would work with my card
>
> [less expensive]
> http://www.ctpvr.com/
> [more expensive]
> http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/default.asp
>
> Your comment and suggestions as to what I might do/try are much
appreciated.
>
> TIA
> albert
>

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
XP>TV Tuner>550PRO

Good Luck


From: David Lee on 14 Dec 2006 21:11
"albert" <albert.h(a)att.net> wrote in
news:92Wfh.484798$QZ1.439023(a)bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:

> I have a Gateway machine that had MCE, but I use it primarily for
> business and decided to rebuild/reinstall using WinXP Pro. I really
> had no use for all the media bells and whistles that MCE offered me.
> However, although not of great practical importance to my needs, I
> would like to have the tuner operational on the machine [and the FM
> radio would be nice also]. [If the Mets get further along into the
> baseball playoffs next year, I will most definitely want a TV
> tuner........ then again, the Mets have been breaking my heart
> forever, <sigh>so maybe it won't be that important to me next
> October</sigh>]
>
> Back in the days of Win95, I had an ATI AIW card [ironically, with
> much less memory than my present card and machine, that AIW software
> could do more of the TV functions I wanted than the MCE software that
> came on this machine --- like monitoring multiple TV channels, ].
>
> The machine has a Powercolor tuner
> http://support.gateway.com/s/vidcard/TVTuner/104185/104185nv.shtml
>
> Win Win XP Pro, I have everything I want, except that the Tuner no
> longer works -- no software to run it. I have installed the ATI
> driver for the card --
> http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?st=pn&param=10418
> 5 -- but presently, according to the Device Manager, the OS doesn't
> even know the card is in the machine.
>
> I'd like go, at least initially, as cheap as possible [it ain't
> baseball season]. Is there a way to pull the [just barely] adequate
> Tuner software off my Gateway WinMCE disk ? If so, how do I identify
> what executable[s] constitute that functionality?
>
> If there isn't a practical use for my MCE OEM disk, then I am guessing
> I should get an aftermarket program.
>
> I was hoping to find, at ATI support pages, or on the Powercolor
> support pages, freely downloadable tuner software for the Powercolor
> -- but I was unable to find anything at either site that I could
> download. It may be there, but I could not find it.
>
> So, if there is nothing I can use on the MCE disk, or download from
> Powercolor's or ATI sites, then what would you recommend for my
> Powercolor card?
>
> These are the aftermarket programs I am considering. If I read their
> support info correctly, both would work with my card
>
> [less expensive]
> http://www.ctpvr.com/
> [more expensive]
> http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/default.asp
>
> Your comment and suggestions as to what I might do/try are much
> appreciated.
>
> TIA
> albert
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

If you have Winamp, there's a tv plugin available at:

www.tv-plugin.com

It's free and there are 2 flavors depending on whether you want to
record or not. I definitely prefer it to the ATI program.

Dave


From: albert on 15 Dec 2006 11:17

"David Lee" <dlonghenry(a)EXTRASTUFFcomcast.net> wrote in message
news:Xns9899D7A31A78Cbebopalula(a)216.196.97.136...
> "albert" <albert.h(a)att.net> wrote in
> news:92Wfh.484798$QZ1.439023(a)bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:
>
>> I have a Gateway machine that had MCE, but I use it primarily for
>> business and decided to rebuild/reinstall using WinXP Pro. I really
>> had no use for all the media bells

<snip>

>> [less expensive]
>> http://www.ctpvr.com/
>> [more expensive]
>> http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/default.asp
>>
>> Your comment and suggestions as to what I might do/try are much
>> appreciated.
>>
>> TIA
>> albert
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> If you have Winamp, there's a tv plugin available at:
>
> www.tv-plugin.com
>
> It's free and there are 2 flavors depending on whether you want to
> record or not. I definitely prefer it to the ATI program.
>
> Dave
>
>

Dave,

I do have Winamp. I went to your link, downloaded the plugin, and it does
work. Excellent. It is not superglitzy, but it serves my present needs
just fine. Now I have a bunch of settings to learn about and play around
with. Since I use an indoor rabbit-ears antenna as my source, I need to
learn what frequencies the local NYC TV stations broadcast on [the automatic
scan does not pick them all up, the "full scan" gathers so many settings as
to be very impractical].

Thanks for the link and advice. Now I have the basic tuner I wanted, and
need to learn a few new things to better understand it, the
broadcast/receive process, etc. So, theoretically, I'll get a little bit
smarter. Excellent.

a



From: albert on 15 Dec 2006 11:17

"T Shadow" <NoOne(a)nonono.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> "albert" <albert.h(a)att.net> wrote in message
> news:92Wfh.484798$QZ1.439023(a)bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>> I have a Gateway machine that had MCE, but I use it primarily for
>> business
>> and decided to rebuild/reinstall using WinXP Pro. I really had no use
>> for
>> all the media bells and whistles that MCE offered me. However, although
>> not of great practical importance to my needs, I would like to have the
>>

<snip>


>> Your comment and suggestions as to what I might do/try are much
> appreciated.
>>
>> TIA
>> albert
>>
>
> http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
> XP>TV Tuner>550PRO
>
> Good Luck
>
>

Thank you T Shadow. This got real close. Downloaded and installed
everything -- but there's a glitch -- the tuner program upgrade wants to see
its previous version install -- otherwise it refuses to install. So I'll
have to find another alternative to make my TV tuner card operational.

a





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