Comments

1. Paul Creamer

   
   Posted on: August 03, 2008 at 10:51AM  

   For me ...Im rapidly coming close to dumping wMC since there are some decent wmc ALTERNATIVES.

   In fact, since i have in 2-3 weeks already gone thru everything else in WMC 'all the videos and etc that are in wMC currently.

   All  thats left that I care about is LIVe TV.

   If I could I would eliminate WMC and replace it with only LIVE tv.

   For me what WMC does is consolidate media to one app (pics,vids,tv)...

   But the TV or 'movie/tv viewing'  part of this is kinda sloppy.

   For me, other than my cost of buying a new pc (3 weeks ago)  and the previously incurred cost of cable... and FM I have no interest in any of the 'trialware' that is in WMC which is more marketing than useful.
2. Drakee

   
   Posted on: August 04, 2008 at 11:25AM  

   Microsoft,

   Why do you hate us? Why do you launch a major 64-bit OS and convince us to move to it, show us the benefits and stability, and then always jack the people who are running 64-bit systems?

   As per this title...no. It does not work at all. I cannot watch the "NBC's coverage of the Beijing...in Windows Media Center" because Microsoft doesn't care about releasing software that is compatibile with their own OS's.

   This sucks.
3. Paul Creamer

   
   Posted on: August 05, 2008 at 10:21PM  

   Lets not forget.... thats how Microsoft operates .. it does a additional beta using the marketplace (ie; we consumers get to test the product that isnt fully there).
4. Freddy Mercury

   
   Posted on: August 06, 2008 at 5:55PM  

   What a piece of garbage and a waste of my time. Doesn't work. All I get is a warning about this release of TVTonic doesn't support 64-bit OS. If you aren't going to support a Vista-branded compatible application in ALL versions of Vista, then your product development team needs to be sacked. 2 years AFTER Vista launches and we are STILl having major, significant media center compatability issues is astoundingly incompetent.
5. Ledon

   
   Posted on: August 07, 2008 at 6:48PM  

   Doesn't work. Who still uses 32 bit?  Why post it if it doesn't work?
6. annaa

   
   Posted on: August 08, 2008 at 12:32PM  

   Brandon or Microsoft - your link does not work in 64-bit Vista and the Olympics have already started!

   Does anyone at Microsoft realize how follish this makes Vista look when it won't even work in Vista? Wasn't application compatability the dealbreaker when Vista launched 18 months ago and we still have compatability problems even with Microsoft's own software that they prominently tout on their flagship Vista blog?

   What's the deal with this problem and when will it be fixed? Brandon, the guy who posted this blog, hasn't responded back in over a week. This makes Microsoft look foolish and makes us all suspect that a bunch of amateurs running this show. Is Apple running the Vista show now?
7. pokeyoats

   
   Posted on: August 08, 2008 at 3:39PM  

   I just wanted to say how disappointing it is that there is no support for the 64-bit version of Vista, particularly due to the fact that TV Tonic is a media based application.

   I say this because I recently had to upgrade my PC to 8GB of memory because I use my 360 to watch videos and Media Centre items with much regularity.

   However, with 2GB of memory the constant crashing, skips, falts, and reboots that were required was really getting to me, and more so my girlfriend.

   All I wanted to do was to make sure that the household could do all they wanted; my girlfriend to be able to watch media and videos and if I wasn't interested in what she was watching, enough memory to play a game or comfortably use the Internet.

   Thus I went for 8GB and subsequently needed to use the 64-bit version of Windows (2^32 = 4.2billion (4GB)).

   So now, I have 8GB of memory my system is running better than it ever has and my girlfriend no longer complains that movies she is watching are interrupted by crashing.

   But now we are locked out of any "additional viewing" that I became quite hopeful about when I saw TV Tonic pop up on my media centre.

   But I guess I'm just one person, and what difference does that make?

   I don't know really, but perhaps a lot, to advertisers...
8. bhubt

   
   Posted on: August 08, 2008 at 3:52PM  

   It took me a few hours to find this forum.

   I have installed the NBC Olympics plugin for Vista Media Center but it is giving me an error when I try to activate it. The TVTonic forums are filled with angy people. This plug-in doesn't work for many, many people even my Vista 32-bit machine.

   It is giving me error 50001. It says that I am barred from activation due to regional restrictions.

   I live in California so the US limitation should not be the problem. WTF? Why does Microsoft software not work with Microsoft software? Is California not a state anymore?

   All I wanted to do was watch the games. I apparently won't be doing it with Vista I guess. Sad.
9. JoeDirt

   
   Posted on: August 08, 2008 at 6:03PM  

   Pretty funny to watch this all unfold. I was noticing the minimum recommended specs to use this software is 2 GB.

   I'll also save Brandon some of his vauable time and allow him to get back to his Minesweeper game that seems to be occupying all their time nowadays with these blogs coming a distant second. I talked with the TVTonic support and I'm passing along the news that TVTonic isn't planning on fixing this issue for months...so the Olympic games are completely out if you are running Vista64. I can only say the irony of this incompatability is staggering, since Media Center was one of the 5 big features touted in Vista.

   Might as well take this blog down. It's another stellar example of the failure of Vista to provide a solution to a common problem.
10. renim

    
    Posted on: August 09, 2008 at 1:14PM  

    TVtonic released an update yesterday which makes it work with 64bit versions of Vista...

    http://www.tvtonic.com/olympics/install/