TV Scanning only for digital antenna

TonyF

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Aug 31, 2009, 12:17:42 AM8/31/09

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I have a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250 card and Vista Home Premium. When I go to
the TV option and setup channels in Media Center it scans, but gives Digital
Antenna as the source and I can't figure out how to change it. I have coax
straight from the wall (no settop box) to the card. I downloaded the WinTV
software and it scanned and found the channels. Any suggestions on how I can
get media center to change so that it will look for analog signals?

Barb Bowman

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Aug 31, 2009, 3:55:21 AM8/31/09

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what is your TV source exactly? Coax out of the wall without a cable
set top box? when you run TV setup, what do you select as the
source?

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Barb Bowman
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Curious

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Aug 31, 2009, 9:50:34 AM8/31/09

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Vista Home Premium MC does not support digital (clear QAM) cable. Win 7 MC
does.
There are possibly some workarounds but I suggest that you use Hauppauge's
WinTV application until you upgrade to Win7.

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tfalin

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Aug 31, 2009, 3:55:18 PM8/31/09

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Cable directly from the wall (no converter box). The problem is that I
do not get an option to select the tuner. Even if I do the manual
configuration. It simply starts scanning "digital antenna"

tfalin

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Aug 31, 2009, 3:59:44 PM8/31/09

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Not sure I follow. I am looking for the analog signals. There would
not be any QAM signals located in this part of the spectrum. I had
this working fine on an XP machine with a different card. The problem
is that it is only looking for the digital antenna option and not
allowing me to tell it to search for any other signals.

Barb Bowman

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Sep 1, 2009, 4:45:09 AM9/1/09

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you need to run HWCLEAR, reboot and rerun TV signal setup. see
http://www.hauppage.com/site/support/support_hvr1250.html

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:55:18 -0700 (PDT), tfalin
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>Cable directly from the wall (no converter box). The problem is that I
>do not get an option to select the tuner. Even if I do the manual
>configuration. It simply starts scanning "digital antenna"

Drew

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Sep 1, 2009, 2:44:40 PM9/1/09

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I am having the exact same problem. I have Hauppauge HVR950Q and when I try
to set up tv signal, there is no prompt to choose a source, it ust
automatically selects Digital signal.

Curious

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Sep 1, 2009, 3:24:11 PM9/1/09

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Drew,
What OS are you running?
Do you have an antenna or cable connected to the card?
When you manually set up your tuner in MCI I assume that you are not trying
to have it set up automatically) for your zip code what signal source do you
select for the card?

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Drew

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Sep 1, 2009, 3:34:02 PM9/1/09

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Im running Vista 64bit. I have coax cable connected. No, I am doing it
manually. I put in my zip and I dont get an optiont to choose any source. It
automatically goes to Digital

Curious

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Sep 1, 2009, 3:50:32 PM9/1/09

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Is the coax cable you have connected coming from an antenna or from a cable
company wall outlet?
Please also answer the other question I asked such as what OS you are
running ( It would also help to know what SP level of that OS you are
running?

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TonyF

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Sep 2, 2009, 4:16:00 PM9/2/09

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Barb,

Thanks for your help, that got it working.

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Barb Bowman

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Sep 2, 2009, 5:58:20 PM9/2/09

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glad that worked for you.

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Huy

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Oct 1, 2009, 11:43:01 PM10/1/09

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I am having the same problem as above poster. I have a Hauppauge 950Q and am
running a coax straight from the wall to the tuner. I am trying to manually
setup in MCE and it only searches for digital antenna signals. I am running
vista home premium 32 bit.

The WinTV software works fine for ATSC, QAM, and analog.

I also tried hooking up my friend's pinnacle tuner and MCE still only
searches for digital antenna signals.

Barb Bowman

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Oct 2, 2009, 5:09:56 AM10/2/09

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did you follow the instructions for Media Center at
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_hvr950q.html ?
uninstalled WinTV? run hwclear.exe?

Curious

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Oct 2, 2009, 9:00:05 AM10/2/09

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The 950 does not have a built in MPEG2 encoder so it does not have MCE
compatible drivers for analog tuner support.
Windows 7 Media Center will be the first release of Media Center to support
clearQAM as a standard capability.
Due to the above you currently only have Digital OTA via antenna support.

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