Tag Archives: TV

DVB-T Signal Strength and MCE TV Tuners

Posted by dave on May 31, 2012 No comments

In my recent post, I talked about added multiple tuners to my Windows 7 Media Centre. I’ve since removed both the Cinergy 2400i DT cards and added in 2 x Hauppauge HVR-2200 dual tuner cards. The Cinergy ones worked ok, …

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Windows 7 Media Center & Multiple TV Tuners

Posted by dave on May 23, 2012 1 comment

I hadn’t planned on writing a post about this but after all the trouble I ran into, I figured it might help others. Ok, the story: I had Windows Vista running on a P4 3.0GHz 3.5GB RAM Dell PC, with …

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Project: Hide the DMA2100

Posted by dave on January 19, 2011 No comments

I recently decorated the dining room and den (a kind of brick conservatory extension on the back of the house). This room is going to be a chill out room and as always I want to keep all the wires …

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Remove adverts from your MCE Recordings with LifeExtender

Posted by dave on March 16, 2010 No comments

Time is money right? Well, if it’s not money, its definitely valuable and I don’t have a lot of it spare I can tell you. Where am I going this this I can hear you saying, well, I’m referring to …

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Using multiple tuners in Vista Media Center (MCE)

Posted by dave on March 16, 2010 No comments

One of the limitations of Vista Media Centre is that officially it only supports 2 tuners. As I’ve got 5 DMA2100 extenders dotted around the house, only having 2 tuners is not really that practical. There are only 2 of …

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