TV signal source

Hello, How can I get windows media center to show my sky channels and the
free to air digital channels? I have a hauppauge HVR 1100 that has freeview
capability.

-Sky connects to the 'composite video' (scart to 3 x phono) on the HVR 1100
-The ariel (that carries th freeview channels) goes into the TV

Is this possible?

many thanks

Nigel
Tue May 06 07:03:28 PDT 2008

On Tue, 6 May 2008 05:54:00 -0700, creativeobsession <creativeobsession@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Hello, How can I get windows media center to show my sky channels and the
>free to air digital channels? I have a hauppauge HVR 1100 that has freeview
>capability.
>
>-Sky connects to the 'composite video' (scart to 3 x phono) on the HVR 1100
>-The ariel (that carries th freeview channels) goes into the TV
>
>Is this possible?
>
>many thanks

The HVR 1100 is a hybrid card that can either be used for analogue capture from the Sky digibox or
for DVB-T (Freeview) via the aerial. You cannot have both at the same time.
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Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP

creativeobsession
Tue May 06 07:43:01 PDT 2008

Thanks for that Nigel, I was starting to think as much after much faffing
around.

I've got a second hauppauge card a PVR PCI II in the same machine could I
set up a separate TV signal source on that card have that as my sky input? or
if your using a second card does it have to be the same as the other one
doing the same thing like SLI (with the provision of being able to record an
additional channel)

Thanks for your help again

Nigel
Tue May 06 08:15:31 PDT 2008

On Tue, 6 May 2008 07:43:01 -0700, creativeobsession <creativeobsession@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Thanks for that Nigel, I was starting to think as much after much faffing
>around.
>
>I've got a second hauppauge card a PVR PCI II in the same machine could I
>set up a separate TV signal source on that card have that as my sky input? or
>if your using a second card does it have to be the same as the other one
>doing the same thing like SLI (with the provision of being able to record an
>additional channel)
>
>Thanks for your help again

Media Center can only have one programme source e.g. external Set Top Box, DVB-T (Freeview),
analogue TV etc So while both tuners don't need to be identical they most be of the same type e.g. 2
x Freeview etc
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Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP

creativeobsession
Tue May 06 11:46:00 PDT 2008

bugger! thanks for the prompt reply again nigel