Vista still REQUIRES an NTSC tuner?!?!?

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Tom Scales

I went in to configure my Fusion HDTV tuner.

I was shocked that Vista MCE wouldn't let me since it couldn't find an NTSC
tuner.

Why the heck do they have such a stupid requirement?

Tom
 
Worked for me. But I had to use an earlier version of the software rather
than the latest. The latest kept crashing the system during install.
 
Tom Scales said:
Which version did you use? Are you using an ATSC tuner?
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Even if you have an ATSC (digital) tuner, you still (even with Vista Media
Center) need an NTSC (analog) tuner. While quite a number of such tuner
cards (including the ATI HDTV Wonder) exist, they are not really intended to
use *both* their tuner sections (the HDTV Wonder is intended to be used as a
*secondary* tuner to either a Theater 550/650 card or All-In-Wonder card,
even though it can be used as a dual-tuner card). The KRAM TV tuner
software restores the included dual-tuner functionality to the HDTV Wonder
for use in either Media Center Edition 2005 or Vista beta 2; in my case, I
have the NTSC side connected to cable TV, and the OTA HDTV side connected to
the Silver Sensor clone included with the tuner card. While tuning works
just fine (even in a window), the EPG doesn't work (I have submitted a bug
report on this, and will continue to do so until this is fixed).

The All-In-Wonder-based cards (with the Theater 200 decoder) are still
wholly unsupported and unusable as TV tuner cards in Windows Vista beta 2
(and only the AIW X800XT and *earlier* are usable in MCE 2005 with Catalyst
6.3 and earlier) due to a driver change affecting all AIWs.


Christopher L. Estep
 
Christopher L. Estep said:
Even if you have an ATSC (digital) tuner, you still (even with Vista Media
Center) need an NTSC (analog) tuner. While quite a number of such tuner
cards (including the ATI HDTV Wonder) exist, they are not really intended
to use *both* their tuner sections (the HDTV Wonder is intended to be used
as a *secondary* tuner to either a Theater 550/650 card or All-In-Wonder
card, even though it can be used as a dual-tuner card). The KRAM TV tuner
software restores the included dual-tuner functionality to the HDTV Wonder
for use in either Media Center Edition 2005 or Vista beta 2; in my case, I
have the NTSC side connected to cable TV, and the OTA HDTV side connected
to the Silver Sensor clone included with the tuner card. While tuning
works just fine (even in a window), the EPG doesn't work (I have submitted
a bug report on this, and will continue to do so until this is fixed).

The All-In-Wonder-based cards (with the Theater 200 decoder) are still
wholly unsupported and unusable as TV tuner cards in Windows Vista beta 2
(and only the AIW X800XT and *earlier* are usable in MCE 2005 with
Catalyst 6.3 and earlier) due to a driver change affecting all AIWs.


Christopher L. Estep
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I understand the what, just not the why. What does an NSTC tuner have to do
with HD? BeyondTv doesn't require it.
 
I"m in Australia so using Dvico DVB-T Plus and Dvico DVB-T Lite. I don't
have an analogue tuner but my video card supports analogue input and output
(ASUS ATI Radeon AX 850). I'm using Fusion Ver 3.00. All works well.

Hope this helps and Good luck
 
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