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After a long, strange weekend, I find myself with an LCD HDTV, an ATI HDTV Wonder and a new, super-duper video card to push all those pixels to the display. Unfortunately, my MCE's OTA[1] HDTV guide listings are only ~60% correct. This is especially bad since exactly one channel broadcasts HDTV 24/7 and it's one that doesn't have any listings. And it's the one that I want record.

If you're in the same boat and haven't found it already, TitanTV is the HDTV TV guide I've been using. The guide lists both the name of the channel, as well as its UHF and <whatever the other number is>. For example it lists both 47 (UHF) and 11-1 (the other one) for WTTW-D. This is helpful for when I want to record something.

Enjoy.

[1] Over The Air. I don't actually watch much TV, so I can't exactly justify paying Mr. Cable Man another $90/mo for HDTV cable. The HDTV Wonder lets me pull 10-15 HDTV channels out of the air (like magic!), complete with Dolby 5.1 surround sound. Amazing stuff.
Posted: Mar 15 2005, 10:21 PM by jeffreykey | with 3 comment(s)
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Ken Robertson said:

I've been thinking about getting MCE, but can you connect to MCE from another PC at all? Even if you got crazy and got MCE on both PCs? I have my media server and then my PC. My media server records all the time, but I don't want to leave my main PC on all the time or not be able to reboot if it was recording. That is the one thing keeping me from going out and getting MCE.
# March 16, 2005 2:11 AM

mearls@hotmail.com (Michael Earls) said:

You can share the Recorded Television directory on the network and watch the shows using Windows Media Player (I use WMP 10 and it works perfectly).

Check out the Media Center Communities Home page (and the news group)...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/communities/mediacenter.mspx

# March 16, 2005 7:38 AM

Jeff Key said:

It works both ways, too: I keep all of my photos in my non-Media Center computer, but view them on the MCE. You can tell MCE to monitor folders, both local and on the network, for things like photos, videos and music.
# March 16, 2005 9:45 AM