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videora works well too

you COULD always bite the bullet and just use the cable on your tv, anything you would record just download online or watch on hulu?

I use a happauge 2250, but it is pcie

i think it has something to do with the mac address of the router in order to work, my father in law cancelled cable and his cable ready tv gets 100 or so channels

maybe it depends on your area, i know in ours you still get basic cable with rr, even if you cancel cable completely. That package includes espn.

espn is part of the basic cable package

I get free basic cable because of having rr, so i use all the ota stuff for that. Otherwise I use hulu and internet tv in media center and boxee etc.

I gave up cable, but because I have RR I still get basic cable, all the local sports are in HD and espn HD is in basic cable too so I am all set.

yeah but it doesn't fit the criteria of $99 or under lol

I have windows 7 with media player. I have the shark007 codecs but other than that no dvd player software. Video drivers are currently updated with current catalyst drivers.

I cant seem to get dvds to play in media center or windows media player. Says something about the output not being supported. I was googling and it looks like something related to hdcp. Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be?

are these nzb sites they use secure, or do they expose your ip etc?

yeah, I know someone that uses other software but he pays for a usenet acct, which i do not want to do lol

hmmm, I just found this, I may try this instead http://www.asciiexpress.com/webguide/ - The guy that wrote this is now working for microsofts media center team, i hope they integrate that feature to compete with sling box. EDIT: Apparently orb can do it to...

and i just found a work around, you can start the recording remotely, and then it shows up as recorded and you can watch it while it records lol

I just found out its only RECORDED video you can watch remotely. They are working on live tv and an android app.

I am trying to do it with remote potato but that they dont have mobile phone support yet, just silverlight plugin, which for some odd reason I cannot even find the way to stream via the web browser lol

I also have a harmony, depending on the IR receiver you get, it may support mouse mode as well. As for me, I am now using myRemote for android, I get mouse and keyboard control plus full media center remote capabilites. I also set it up so I can use it over 3G from anywhere in the world lol.

TV Rename doesnt support automatic downloading of new episodes though right?

seriously, its already written lol

Sorta, for example I can subscribe to a hulu alert for house, when a new episode is posted I would get an email. Wondering if there is a pluging for media center, or xbmc, or boxee, that I can "watch" certain shows and have a list when new episodes are posted. Maybe like a favorite shows list?

hmmm I guess I should try and find a cheap 360 then. Is there software for the pc you can use? I have a spare laptop I could use.

yeah I have a 360 but it is hooked to the same tv. I would probably have a hard time convincing the wife to put a 360 in the bedroom lol

Can anyone recommend a decent MCE to work with MC7? This is just for a regular 28in crt with just a coax input (may have component have to check). I just want to be able to watch live tv and my recorded tv, id prefer something standalone like a setop box, and if possible under $99. Thanks

I have an asus mb with hdmi and regular stereo audio from my tv and it works perfectly. I am waiting for my optical cable to come from mono price, the mb has an optical out that should work with my 5.1 system. Hopefully that will work well.

yea I use my harmony, i can use it in mouse mode or regular remote mode for media center.

you sure you were watching a digital channel and not analog? When i first set mine up it found all the analogs and i couldnt find the digitals. I had to manually edit the guide to enable the digitals it found, now all the hd channels work perfectly and if it is broadcast in widescreen it fills...

This is exactly what I am doing, I have the cable right into my happauge and it picks up the clearqam hd channels. His problem was he cant see the encrypted ones. I believe I did mention the hd-pvr in my post.

my friend swears by this thing. http://www.logitech.com/en-us/keyboards/keyboard/devices/3848

The Happauge Cards or hd pvr card I cant recall, has the ability to take the signal out of your cable box. Check their website again.

ok, I will open a new thread, do not want to confuse the issue.

HUZZAH, figured it out. Was those crappy drivers provided by the MB manufacture. I got updated drivers direct from AMD, and it is working like a dream right now. now i need to figure out why it wont auto detect my clearQAM channels and I have to add them manually.

ok some more info. I was able to manually add the dtv channel and added fox hd to test. Full screen media center the video frame rate is un-watchable, however if I come out of full screen and stretch it to the edges of the tv it works perfect. Cpu usage is only at 13%, any idea what the issue...

Is there some software or setting somewhere that can notify you when new episodes are available. I realize this is a long shot, but i am using xbmc, boxee, and wmc, it would be nice to know when a new episode of house is available for example and to be able to launch it from whatever app sees...

it autodetected my tv resolution as 1920x1080 1080p. I guess I should look up my model number and determine my max resolution, I am pretty sure that is set right. I mean the pc portion of it looks great and everything fits awesome (had to use the overscan setting in ati control panel). EDIT...

I will test the tv as it has a tuner built in as well. It works fine on the cable box, even the non hd channels look good (but they are digital). I may try the open source ati drivers instead of the boxed ones. Even though hulu looks great, i also get some jumpiness on that. Like you can see...

I seem to be having a problem with live tv being jumpy. It is REALLY bad with live sports where things are moving fast. It is on the standard analog channels (for some reason I can only get 8 digital to show up but that is another story). I am able to play a 1080p mkv fine over my network so...

I got an happauge 2250, waiting for it to come, but read great things about it.

Apple TV does play local content via your itunes library and airplay, but still not as flexible. I am building my own htpc, gives me the most flexability.

yeah, another option is just get a couple of spare drives, and ship them to your parents house or somewhere once a month lol