Viewing Dish Network on Vista Media Center

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I have a Dell XPS 410 with 2G RAM, Vista, and a dual TV tuner, hooked up to
the house's coax system.

When we had cable, I was able to watch and record regular cable channels
with no problem.

We dumped Communistcast, and went with ATT / Dish Network.

The dish receiver is a dual tuner Dish 322. The second tuner outputs a
signal to the house coax system, and can be picked up on any attached TV,
with the tuner set to channel 60.

That is except for my Dell. I can't get the TV tuner to pick up the channel
60 signal.

Any ideas as to how to configure Media Center to pick up channel 60?

Thanks in advance
 
I was just off the phone with Dish with this problem. Using the new
receiver's with two TV capibility from ONE box, means Media Center has a
problem. Running the coax into the video card, and running Media Center,
you'll get a blue screen (because channel three is no longer valid for the
Dish video feed into the second TV.). My Dish remote control was setup for
channel 73- if you manually, using your Media Center remote, go to the
channel your dish remote is set for, you will see the Dish video feed- in my
case channel 73.
Dish says the second TV remote will not go lower than channel 21, so it
looks like we are stuck with manually configuring Media Center's default
channel to Dish's default remote's channel and then using the Dish remote to
operate within the Media Center. This does work, but each time Media Center
is closed and restarted, you'll have , at Media Center startup (blue screen),
push in manually the Dish remote's default channel using Media Center's
remote.

Unless someone else has a work around? Dish says to run the computer with
Media Center hooked up to the main Dish box- TV1, since it is setup to
channel 3 default.
What a crock- lost some functionality by upgrading for more money and a
contract.

Good Luck.
 
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