Hauppauge DVB-T Radio#

One thing has been sorely missing since Media Center first became available in Europe back in 2003. That was DVB-T radio channel support, as right now Media Center isn't setup to be able to handle the data coming from these channels so they get blocked out during the channel scan. In Media Center 2005 the way tuner cards were handled changed. This allows them to be put into use when live TV or a recording is not in progress (where as 2004 'locked' onto the card for itself). This has opened up the TV Tuner hardware to 3rd party applications, and Hauppauge have released a beta application which allows access to DVB Radio services. The downside however is that currently only the WinTV Nova-T USB2 tuner is supported, although Hauppauge are expecting to add support for the rest of their DVB-T hardware in the coming months.

 

http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_mce.html

28-04-2005 17:06:49 UTC #     |  Trackback

 

Microsoft Announces Trade In for XP x64#

If you purchased an x64 based PC between March 31st 2003 and July 31st 2005 which came preloaded with the OEM version of Windows XP Professional, a trade in program has been established which will allow you to 'upgrade' to Windows x64 Professional Edition for the cost of shipping. Though I would recommend you try the free trial version before taking part in this trade in because once you are licensed to use x64 Edition, your 32 Bit Edition will no longer be licensed.

 

Free Trial:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/evaluation/trial.mspx

 

For more on the trade in see
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/upgrade/default.mspx

5 Reasons to use Windows XP x64
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/evaluation/top5.mspx

 

28-04-2005 17:00:01 UTC #     |  Trackback

 

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