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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[I had similar problems when TW installed a cable card for my TV. They came out to my house 6 times before I had to troubleshoot the issue for them.  The problem that I had was the signal from TW wasn’t strong enough for a cable card, but worked fine for a cable box.  They never could get the signal to lock in at 119. I hooked up a bidirectional amp and the signal locked in at 119. Then, they cable company has to send a signal to the card twice. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Santa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 6th 2009 10:39AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[At least you tried. I can see the pain coming miles away, and I think I'll just spare myself the trouble.<br><br>Those TWC guys were so frustrated they tried to jump off your roof?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Zatz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 21st 2007 9:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[sucks]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Naveed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 21st 2007 9:23PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, I would not be surprised if the problem is on  Vista's MCE, I do not have a cablecard going into mine, but on my vista MCE, after about a month of perfectly fine usage, it started to stutter the standard signal, eventually i reformatted for other reasons, and MCE stopped stuttering the live signal - but then about a week later, it started to stutter again, i updated to the newest hauppauge drivers, and did every update, i changed quality settings and everything - no luck: <br><br>getting long winded here - i mean to say - maybe its just your Vista MCE.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[scottstrash]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 21st 2007 9:43PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[Probably not MCE, I've never had a problem with HD in my Vista MCE and I've been using it since early January.  It might be your signal, if your antenna got bumped or moved try readjusting it and depending on how far you are form you HD towers a new building or something may have disrupted your signal, so you might want to try an outdoor HD antenna if you don't have one already.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Jenkins]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 21st 2007 10:34PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[Uhm, Mike, did you not read the title of the article?  They are dealing with a CableCARD installation, so there are no antennas to be realigned.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joey Geraci]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 21st 2007 10:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[I was referring to scottstrash's comment on his problems with MCE.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Jenkins]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 22nd 2007 4:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[so how many people does it take to figure out that you have bad power running into your apartment?  Id bet money, 10$, that it is an issue with power that when the xps and the cable card are hooked up together some power issue occurs.  Make sure all your power cords run perpendicular to your cable!  Seriously though, even if that isnt the problem, it is pretty stupid that none of these tech guys checked out the power.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bobby cheren]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 22nd 2007 12:28AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[bobby, can  you elaborate on this power problem you are talking about?  You think it's causing noise in the cable line?  Or bad power is causing the hardware to malfunction?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Darren]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 8th 2007 1:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[One of the things I have encountered many times in the audio world is when you have lets say, a laptop with a usb audio interface attached that must be plugged into an electrical outlet, and uses phantom power.  If the laptop isn't plugged in, there isnt any problem, but if you plug it in, something happens that creates noise.  I believe this is usually solved by shielding the cable at some point with lead, its this plastic thing you snap around the usb cable that is supposed to fix the problem.  Another thing I have often heard is that you must always keep power cords perpendicular to audio cables, and that having dimmers on your light switches and having fans on the same circuit will also cause noise.  I think that this problem is essentially when you have two devices plugged into different outlets or the same outlet and they have unshielded cables running between them.  I can't say for certain that what happens in the world of audio happens in the world of cable, but i think it probably does.  <br><br><br>Here is a link that may be explaining what I am talking about:<br><a href="http://www.belden.com/pdfs/Techpprs/tpbroad.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.belden.com/pdfs/Techpprs/tpbroad.htm</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bobby]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 8th 2007 2:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[MCE is never going to make much of an impact in the living room until it can be as easy to set-up as a Tivo or Freeview box. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rich]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 22nd 2007 4:44AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[I do not care how much it costs, I am going to have this power my HD setup as soon as it is available to the public.<br><br>Vista MCE beats anything available from Apple.<br><br>I am not a fan of this running Vista so I might have to build a new XP box.  (Damn! did I just say that? Sheesh!)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[cgarison]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 22nd 2007 7:34AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[cgarison: You're not going to build anything. Due to the Cable Labs certification process, you're going to buy a preconfigured solution. Which means Vista. Which means you don't get to recycle what you currently own. Which means you can't migrate those ATI CableCARD tuner/decoder boxes to another machine.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Zatz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 22nd 2007 8:04AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[Did you try a different CableCard?  <br><br>I found with Tivo 3 installs that you need the newest cards possible.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Zak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 22nd 2007 8:47AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[Greetings,<br><br>I had a problem with shuttering DRM content on my Vista Ultimate computer.  It was only DRM content that was the problem.  The fix for me was to "Disable all Enhancements" in control panel/sound/XXX]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vince]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 22nd 2007 11:21AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[Nice.  Looks like this solution simply isn't ready.<br><br>I'm really interested in the root-cause of the issues faced and particularly how to self-diagnose this prior to laying out cold-hard-cash for such a absurdly priced system.  Can you make sure to post a followup?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[cloned]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 25th 2007 9:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is the second review of a Vista cable card review that I have read.  And both have been disasters.  The folks over at AnandTech had a review that was errily similar.  Come on, how difficult can this be?  Cable companies would of course rather rent you their boxes.  Also seems to to me that they are draging their feet on DCAS, or software downloadable access.  These cable cards shouldn't even be necessary, access and content can be delivered with software downloaded to box/computer.  When that happens we should be able to assemble one of these babies together ourselves.  I know the wait is agonizingly taking forever.  The fact that Mr. Softy sent out the army is encouraging, I hope, in that Microsoft really wants this to take off.  The question is when??]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[horngreen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 22nd 2007 7:14PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[CableCards SUCK....they are touchy, the TV's, TiVo's and now Vista will all have different signal needs.  Stick with a set-top box and enjoy solid, constent TV.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 22nd 2007 6:35PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[Loved it. I mean what a review when you have the full resources of Microsoft and the cable provider and THEY can't get to work! Imagine if it was joe smo out here, it would have just been your problem.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[johnny hates waiting]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 2:10AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is what I think the problem is:<br><br><a href="http://www.belden.com/pdfs/Techpprs/tpbroad.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.belden.com/pdfs/Techpprs/tpbroad.htm</a><br><br>you need to get a lead plastic snap on shielder for any usb cable running between the computer and the cable card.  This happens alot with audio i/o interfaces.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bobby]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 8th 2007 2:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Installing a Vista CableCARD Media Center PC (part 1): Fiasco!]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/installing-a-vista-cablecard-media-center-pc-part-1-fiasco/</guid><description><![CDATA[I had stutter problem on my HDTV just doing QAM. I added an HDTV compatible signal amplifier and everything was cleared right up. You say TWC messed with the cabling on the roof and thought that they didn't have enough signal. They probably didn't and the ATI Tuner was a little more sensitive to it than the other DVR you have. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nyle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 10th 2007 5:19PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
