TV Tuner In Media Centre.

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I just bought a Compro VideoMate M1F (pvr tv card) , and i cant get it to work in its default software neither does windows detect it in media centre.

It is certified by windows to work in media centre due it have a media centre remote. Anyone had same problem and got it to work maby?

I have win 7 ultimate. An i already updated to newest drivers and software. Is their maby a new media centre out or a downloadeble update?

Thx
 
TV tuners have been on the PC for an extremely long time. Unfortunately, it wasn't until most recently that they were ever really taken advantage of. In the past, TV tuner cards were useful for recording your favorite TV show, but mostly for just being able to watch TV on your computer monitor. A PC armed with a TV tuner card was far from a full-fledged PVR, even though ATI came close numerous times with their Multimedia Center interface. In the end, a TV tuner became a nice toy to have on your PC, but could hardly offer the type of functionality that a set-top box such as a TiVo or ReplayTV could offer.
 
OP - can't help with that card unfortunately.

tubmanaxton said:
TV tuners have been on the PC for an extremely long time. Unfortunately, it wasn't until most recently that they were ever really taken advantage of. In the past, TV tuner cards were useful for recording your favorite TV show, but mostly for just being able to watch TV on your computer monitor. A PC armed with a TV tuner card was far from a full-fledged PVR, even though ATI came close numerous times with their Multimedia Center interface. In the end, a TV tuner became a nice toy to have on your PC, but could hardly offer the type of functionality that a set-top box such as a TiVo or ReplayTV could offer.
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You obviously have no clue what a proper Media Center is capable of.
 
Flame said:
I just bought a Compro VideoMate M1F (pvr tv card) , and i cant get it to work in its default software neither does windows detect it in media centre.

It is certified by windows to work in media centre due it have a media centre remote. Anyone had same problem and got it to work maby?

I have win 7 ultimate. An i already updated to newest drivers and software. Is their maby a new media centre out or a downloadeble update?

Thx
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There isn't a new Media Center out, but there was some patches lately on Windows Update for Media Center. I don't think those are going to help though, since the card doesn't appear to even be working with it's default software. Sorry I can't help further, I don't have much experience with TV cards and Media Center
 
please do not update anything from media centre on win7.What you should do is uninstall all the stuff that came with your tv card drivers everything.Restart and only install the tv card driver.Restart the pc and enter media centre,follow the set up for live tv and make sure you have a internet connection as media centre will download a few files to set your tuner card up.
Do this and be well spartan:D.
btw....i did this countless times on other systems and it worked for me.If you have a problem just pm me........its gratiz
 
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