[mythtv-users] How many tuners - an odometer thread.

Steve Hodge stevehodge at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 22:27:43 UTC 2008


On Feb 6, 2008 11:15 AM, Dean Harding <dean.harding at dload.com.au> wrote:

> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:56:55AM +1300, Steve Hodge wrote:
> >>    I'm not sure that assumption is entirely valid. It's probably
> >>    the case for people who just have a tuner card in their desktop
> >>    machine, but is there any reason why people running MCE wouldn't
> >>    have more than one tuner?
> >
> > Not directly, no, but I assume if any of the people responding to this
> > thread were also running MCE, we'd have heard about their tuner count,
> > and I don't have any others available to ask.
>
>  From what I understand, Windows MCE only allows *one* (dual) tuner card
> to be used (in the U.S. it allows for up to two dual tuner cards, but in
> others countries it's only one). That was one of the biggest reasons I
> choose MythTV over Windows MCE...
>

Wow, really? I can put two tuner cards in my Windows XP desktop quite
happily but if try to put them into a media PC running MCE it won't work.
How typically Microsoft.

Cheers,
Steve
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