Kirby

[Kirby]

Cant really answer your questions as I have not ever tried to program in MCML, but this looks very nice and if you need someone to help test for bugs, let me know.  Is that a scaled down fanart (1920×1080) image?  

[Kirby]

Got it, thanks!  Sounds like I definitely need to backup my recording schedule/favorites then to be safe before I swap out the tuners.

[Kirby]

Is Media Center robust enough to remove the ‘missing’ tuners and associated channels that were on them?  Last thing I want to have happen is have MC remember the old tuners and recognize the new ones as well, and when a show fires up to record have MC try and record it on the removed tuner source.  Have to say, this is one area that I really miss SageTV.  They way you could have complete control over the tuners.

[Kirby]

Or two 🙂

[Kirby]

Not sure if this will work for you, not RF, but Bluetooth.  I just got mine last night and its working swimmingly! (always wanted to use that word!)

http://thedigitalmediazone.com/2012/04/27/using-a-tivo-slide-remote-with-windows-media-center/

[Kirby]

I kind of figured that would be an issue.  Oh well, so much for finding a creative way to integrate cable VOD into the HTPC.  Guess I will just try and sell the HD-PVR then, as I wont have any real need for it.

[Kirby]

Oh, great recommendation!  I never think to look at 2.5″ conventional drives, those are very low power and low heat drives.  Just grabbed a 500GB model.  Thanks for the help!

[Kirby]

Well if 500GB is more than ample, would a large SSD be better (say 128GB or 256GB)?  Or would the constant writes/re-writes kill it?  That would be the lowest heat solution?

[Kirby]

So the day I feared is finally nearing.  In a month or two, my cable provider will be adding dozens of copy-once channels, and I will want access to them without having to deal with a lone HD-PVR for tuning/recording over 30 channels.  So my SageTV time seems to be about up.  Looking at switching to media center, but in doing so I am going to have to put a recording drive in my Tivo case.  Not a big deal, it will fit right where the SSD was (as I picked up a 64GB mSata drive for a clean OS install).  

What I dont know is, what is a good drive brand/model to put in for recording?  I will have 5 tuners (all HD Homeruns, 3 Prime, 1 QAM, 1 OTA) and I want to keep heat of the drive to a minimum as my case only has the rear exhaust fan (controlled off the motherboard, PWM fan).  I dont need huge storage, as I plan to have MCE archive all recordings to my WHS2011 box.

Since I dont know how often/fast MCE will archive, that could play into the drive size calculation.  Everything is on a gigabit network, so transfers should be rather speedy.

What would you guys and gals suggest?  Green drive?  Brand?  I’m thinking I could get by with even 500GB or so, depending on how often MCE archives.  

Appreciate your input! 🙂

[Kirby]

I agree.  I just tried to re-install using the 3.0 ports and quickly realized they are not active until drivers get loaded during the install, so I cant install like that.  Time to disassemble.  Joy joy.

*update* I figure I cant disassemble until tonight, so before I left for work I unhooked all cables and unplugged the CMOS battery.  Not sure if that will do any good to sit like that or not, but worth a shot I guess. 

[Kirby]

I can do that.  But with the keyboard and mouse in the USB 2.0 Ports, i get a no keyboard error right before the OS loads. Can’t get into Bios.  so to re-install i will need to have those in the USB 3.0 Ports.

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Yeah I read the review many times 🙂  Are you talking about the mini-box power adapters?  The last comment on the review thread sort of scared me off of them.

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1)  Charter Communications
2)  Sturgis, MI
3)  All SD basic ,expanded basic, digital view, digital view plus, and sports view are copy free.  All HD including movie channels are copy free.  All SD movie channels are copy once.
4)  Yes, Moto MTR-700
5)  Yes, and they will ship a card for free.  Do not know if they will ship TA free.

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Updating my area, HD premium channels are now copy-once.

[Kirby]

Yeah I dont use analog anything.  And would never consider analog audio on a MB either!

[Kirby]

I just want to make sure I understand the ‘issue’ with the DH61AG board and mixing of surround channels incorrectly.  If I am only going to bitstream over HDMI, then it does not matter which revision of the MB I get, correct?  Its only an issue on the analog audio 7.1 outputs?

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