jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Dec 23 08:06:46 CST 2009
Must be nice to have an XBox! We have kids and my wife is adamant that there will be no game console. So what exactly are you doing? A TV Tuner card in your PC? Connected THROUGH the XBox? I have built a dedicated WMC HTPC which sits under the TV. It was running Vista on a "low power" AMD x2 (2 ghz) and 4 gigs ram, and running MyMovies. I had sooooo many problems with that configuration, and it was decidedly not fast! Vista would completely hang, requiring me to log off, go to sleep mode or occasionally even a complete reboot. Just a ROYAL PITA! One day Vista abruptly decided to not understand the TV video (tuner or already recorded files). Given the constant complaints from the family about the speed (it really was a dog!) and facing a reinstall anyway, I decided to do a clean install of Windows 7. I also decided to do a hardware upgrade as well, dropped a quad core in and used a flash drive for the boot drive. I also went with Media Browser for the archived movies player. What a different experience. The machine boots in seconds, Media Browser displays the movies in seconds, navigates between movies in seconds. The PC no longer hangs. Just a blazing fast machine now. Windows 7 even knows about clear QAM (unencrypted) digital TV, so I went to the trouble of mapping the available QAM channels, which includes a ton of music channels. The family is happy, I am happy. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Max Wanadoo wrote: > Thank you Gustav and the very best to you and yours as well. > > I will have a look at the video but at the moment I have just connected my > PC to TV Turner via my Xbox360 Elite and Xbox-live with great "stuff" > including all the 60's music which I am playing now with my TV being output > to my PC. HDMI connectors to the console and PC from the 50" plasma - TV > operating via Windows Media Centre. > > Oooohh, I am pure excited....just waiting for the wee fat man in the red > suit to call.. > > > Max