Additional tuners in media centre

Amber · Nov 13, 2007 10:49 am

Hey Matt/Rod or anybody else that knows ....

We have a media centre with 2 tuners .... wanting to get an additional 2 tuners for the big fella for his birthday.

re-reading what I just wrote, I may be referring to the wrong thing .... we want to be able to record up to 4 channels if we need to ... is 'tuners' the right thing I'm looking for? All i know is that we have 2 of whatever it is ... and we need another 2.

Can you point me in the direction of where I can go to get them/?

Cheers
A

mattwalker · Nov 13, 2007 10:56 am

Amber,

Tuners is what you need.

You will need to do a registry hack to enable the extra tuners to work.

The site you need is:

www.xpmediacentre.com.au

Give the guys there your machine spec's and they will advise on the best tuner for you..ie PCI / PCIe etc and the best brands etc.

There is a new PCIe card recently launched that has 4 DVBT tuners on it I think. You may want to look at that also.

Amber · Nov 13, 2007 10:57 am

Thanks Matt,

I knew it was going to be too hard for me without letting John know about it!!

Is the registry hack thing going to effect anything else do you think??

mattwalker · Nov 13, 2007 11:00 am

Nope the hack just allows you XPMCE to see more tuners than the standard 2...

arkraider · Nov 13, 2007 11:02 am

That sounds really nice, I might look at something like this for media centre for me sometime next year....

Amber · Nov 13, 2007 11:05 am

Gav, I had a bit of a dummy spit about the cost of the media centre when John first bought it ... but now .... couldn't live without it!!!

Every home should have one!!!

mattwalker · Nov 13, 2007 11:18 am

Amber,

You might want to have a look at the new extenders about to hit the market too..

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/26/link ... extenders/

I have just got a dvico 4130 that is also worthy of a spot in homes...

http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Media_Cent ... s/H6N9B7K5

http://www.new-media.com.au/Dvico-TViX- ... -2551.html

arkraider · Nov 30, 2007 1:04 pm

Hay Amber how did you go with the birthday present? Has he had it yet?

Amber · Dec 05, 2007 3:28 pm

Hey Gav,

Unfortunately the poor old fella' had his birthday 2 days after the wedding ... so it's a bit of an I.O.U.

He originally told me just to get them for christmas instead but then he decided that he was getting ripped off so he's told me to come good with the I.O.U.!!!!

So now I have to buy him an extender AND 2 new tuners.

when did it become all about him

heavy sigh

arkraider · Dec 05, 2007 4:01 pm

I will definitely have a chat with you guys soon when we can catch up about that....

Sounds like something you may need to convince the wife about..... :lol: