Re: [ukha_d] Public Service Annou ncement - MCE2005 PC for £580

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Gordon wrote:

>Hi Kevin.
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>I never did open the box up & look inside, but I know what you mean
about the rubbish they've written on the website... - it's amazing they
manage to sell anything at all!!
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Dreadfull spec editing....

One more quick Q.. - and I know these things are very difficult to
quantify, how noisy is it ?   I assume its still going to be a case of
not in the same room as the TV ??  The fans I assume are variable speed
or On/Off temperature switched.  I guess the only way to really know
this is to pop down to PCW.

>Yes it most definitely DOES have proper 10/100 wired Ethernet built in,
and it also has a 54g wireless card in one of the PCI slots. At least one
other PCI slot is taken by the analogue tuner, and TBH I'm really not sure
if the 3rd one was free or not.
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>However, if I've read the forums correctly, it isn't possible to have
two tuners of different types (i.e. one analogue, one digital) under
MCE2005, - dual tuner support only works for two of the same type -
preferably, (although apparently not essentially) the same make & model
of card as well...
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>

I think I've just read the same post  :-)  ... although there seems to
be a partial solution here

http://tinyurl.com/44bca

I need to read this a bit more thoroughly though, particulalry with
regard to differing channel numbers between the two.

>That being the case, you wouldn't be able to add a freeview card
without removing the existing analogue one anyway...
>
>WRT to the practical aspects of installing a different tuner card in an
existing MCE install, I believe it should be relatively straightforward,
provided as you say, you select one that is certified (the Black Gold's for
example).
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Looking at that exact one - or the Hauppauge Nova-T oem for MCE2005 ..

K