Try Windows Media Center - you may already have it!

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veratta — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:48:17 GMT

I have noticed that in both Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player there isn't a "2 Second," gap placed in between songs when burning tracks onto a CD. No gap placed results in a audio "skipping" sound at the end of each concurrent song. Also unlike my Roxio and Nero burning software that I have-Songs burned by Media Center and Media Player won't play in my car's CD player. If there is any consolation; neither will Apple's i-Tunes burned music play in my car.

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catstwelve — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:13:20 GMT

My husband recently tried to buy us a new Sony desktop and a pair of hybrid (analog and digital) TV tuners from Sony. It was the worst electronics decision we have ever made. Our new Sony VGC-LT29U would not receive digital cable. Our local cable company rewired our house, twice, tried at least 3 cable cards. I called Sony for 2 months, asking them to please fix my new expensive computer. Every time I switched from a digital to an analog channel, or the opposite, my picture would freeze, and then show me the error message "tuner not found." Sony blamed it on software incompatibility, and after 2 months I sent the whole mess back to Sony. They are now, of coarse, refusing to refund our money. I tried asking microsoft for help, but they say if Windows was installed by the manufacturer, that company has agreed to do the customer support.

the above is about a new Sony VGC-LT29U running Vista Ultimate a pair of ATI TV Wonder digital cable tuners model A636 "certified for Windows Vista"

networked with a Netgear WNR 3500 router compatible according to the Microsoft website

the cable modem from Time Warner is by Arris

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Ben Reed — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:08:08 GMT

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CasWombat — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:45:33 GMT

Please please help!!! I have somehow disabled the burn dvd option in my media centre, I love my media centre burner and it's completely disapeared from the task options. Please can someone help! I've been online for hours and have not yet come across any other person who's expereinced this problem. How do I get it back??

CasWombat.

go_wombat@yahoo.com.au

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saeed1r — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:30:26 GMT

i have vista home premium, i used to have windows media center, now i cannot find any traces of it in the start program buttom and so forth, i have been looking for an exec or something of that sort, i am sure i did not intentionally delete it, i just can't find how to run it since i don't have an icon for it anymore anywheres, now, what if i have to reinstall it how do i go about doing that, can someone please help me

i have read http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/9b7a9095-fc10-4ff3-9cb0-0f7394105db91033.mspx but there is no settings or general if you look at that article.

wonder what ever happened to media center on my laptop, now that i really want to use it.

any ideas would be very welcome, thanks

saeed1r2000@yahoo.com

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karl_the_rat — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:11:50 GMT

Seems Microsoft are all too keen to talk about the virtues of Media Center. The user interface is very pretty and I've found it to be quite reliable.

However, the guide is the biggest mistake Microsoft could have made. Specially when you live between two transmitters where you get some channels from one and some from another, setting it up is a killer. Also the guide is not always accurate and sometimes not available. Why didn't Microsoft support an EPG over the air waves ? Big mistake.

Also why can't I use Media Center in my office to watch TV from my Media Center TV in the living room ? Thinking of ditching Media Center as there are plenty of alternatives that may not look so pretty but offer much better functionality.

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teffan — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:53:42 GMT

I have just built a new computer using Vista Ultimate software and the Asus 5K Premium motherboard with a Intel Quad Core processor and 4 gig of memory. When I try to setup the Media Center it tells me it can't find the Hauppauge 1800 tuner card which is certified for Vista Media Center. I have spent hours on this and it seems the problem is not with card, since Vista displays the card in device manager as working and Beyond TV software uses the card to display tv and to record. It seems other individuals are having the same problem regardless of the tuner card. will Microsoft ever fix the Media software?

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rrileypm — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:06:24 GMT

I have used media center since the XP version, and like the functionality. Now, I'm running Vista Home Premium.

I'm pleased with the quality of one hour TV shows, and up until now, I had not really tried recording movies lasting more than one hour.

Whenever I record a movie, Media Center breaks the movie into either two or three files. I would really prefer just one file per movie.

Is there a setting I should change somewhere? I haven't been able to find one. Otherwise, why would MC split the movies?

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SudKish — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:32:23 GMT

I do not see the 'Explore' button under the 'Online Media' menu in Media Center (Vista Home Premium). Unfortunately, I could not find a solution to this through forums. Can anyone here help me this?

I would like to know how to enable the Online Media programs for my media center?

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bulldawggg — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:52:46 GMT

I just purchased a new laptop with Vista Premium. I have an Xbox 360 that I can use as a Media Center Extender. I currently subscribe to Directv satellite service. What is the difference in using a tv tuner versus a capture card besides that the capture card is less expensive. It seems to me that since my TV is always on channel 3 that I can't really tune into any other channels or can it change the channels through the Directv box? What does the tv tuner card do that the capture card cannot do? Is there anything that I can read more about using Satillite TV with Vista Media Center?

Thanks

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turland — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:51:46 GMT

When are you going to fix the bugs related to subchannel support for ota hdtv? You can manually add the channels in, but the guide still doesn't support it. Sloppy testing on Microsoft's part, but what else is new.

Ben, I emailed you already regarding this issue several days ago and expect a response. This bug must be fixed.

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lmk43 — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:21:25 GMT

More errors:Now i only have one channel left in tv and movies

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lmk43 — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:50:39 GMT

Error after error.This time it`s

cannot find videofile

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lmk43 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:01:49 GMT

Why not make a choice of different packages of online tv that you can install in your mediacenter and a fix for the problems.I googled al day today and found no solution to my problem:

Files needed to display video are not installed or not working correctly.

This only happened when i tried online tv.Also some online tvfiles couldn`t be found.

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lmk43 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:54:05 GMT

Do i need codecs to watch online tv and how do i add online tv-channels.All works fine except for online-tv