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Not only do you have all the flexibilty advanteges of MCE, you have a full blown OS underneath) compared to a Tivo. The flexibility is awesome (just think about it, it's a whole computer. If you have one you'll understand (or a linux based competitor). There are two ports on it, but the old remote only came with one blaster, the new one which is actually cheaper then the old one comes with two. glennpratt - Wednesday, Octolink jamawass - There is an IR blaster connected to the remote USB reciever.Looking at the performance I'm not seeing a hugley compelling reason to go any higher than a Sempron 3100+ although that might be something that would change once I actually get my hands on it and experience it. We only have 5 free-to-air channels and a couple of pay-tv subscription services (that are really the same service packaged differently) so it shouldn't be too hard for them to keep up to date. But the good thing is, I'm fairly certain (although again, not seen it in writing yet) that the program guide system will work. I'm so desperate I'm even considering ringing up Microsoft and going through the quagmire that is customer relations there.

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So far it looks like no Australia specific music or movie internet services are supported, but I can't find anything to say definately either way. The main problem with it is the program guide.Īustralia is officially supported by MCE2005, and I'm very interested in just what that means. I'm in Australia so TiVo or the like is not currently an option (although I've heard rumours it'll be here within another year).

tantryl - Thursday, Octolink Thanks glenn.

Honestly, how would you expect EVERY format to support embedded CC and on the fly sequence removal? How could you expect hardware encoding support for any directshow enabled codec? You can't just throw a pre-encoded MPEG2 stream from the hardware into any encoder and expect real time results.

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Fire up your application of choice, select your codec and complain to the software maker that they don't have their own integrated EPG and automatic scheduling capabilities.

If you want to record in the format of your choice with an XP MCE PC, no one is stopping you.

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Understand this: An MCE PC has one or more TV tuners and video capture cards in it and they will function exactly like any other PC with that hardware. MCE isn't an interface to multiple video formats and types and simply wonld not function correctly if it were. You're clearly one seriously misinformed individual. Having to use the proprietary MS stuff with all their DRM garbage is unsuitable.' CZroe - Sunday, Octolink 'Windows MCE will never be any use for people serious about video until it allows you to select what codecs you want to use for encoding from all the DirectShow codecs installed on your system.ThereĪre far too many limitations for it to be considered a full fledged feature In the end, it's tough to list HDTV support as a feature of MCE 2005. Taxing on your system and on your graphics card. While we haven't had aĬhance to test it ourselves, HDTV playback under Media Center is supposedly pretty Getting OTA HDTV support will require two cards. HDTV Wonder does not feature a hardware MPEG-2 encoder, meaning that it cannotīe used as both your analog and HDTV tuner, so you'll have to either waitįor another card to be supported or you'll have to deal with the fact that Is the only HD tuner supported by MCE 2005 at this time, support for HDTV isn't To be the champion of bringing recordable We will have to wait and see how this situation plays out in the future,Īs it will most definitely adjust Microsoft's course of action with regards People aren't viewing broadcasts in HD so it's not a huge loss for Microsoft,

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