RESOLVED:TATA SKY with Vista media center
Has anyone been successfully able to set up TATA-sky set up vista media center to work with TATA-Sky digicomp set top box.I dont mean just viewing the picture on PC screen and changing channel via STB. I mean has nyone been able to get EVERYTHING working.Microsoft EPG, Scheduled recording, waking up to record, turning PC on/off from remote, changing channels and volume via media center remote. I Have the complete kit-Pinnacle 110i TV tuner, Vista ultimate,microsoft media center remote, IR blasters.It took me 5 years to save up from my salary to buy my PC and all this expensive expensive stuff ) But I just cant get TATA-sky to change channels on the set top box.I dont have internet in my living room so I skipped the parts where the setup asks to download settings of service providers,EPG etc.So U can imagine how many hair I have pulled out of my head in frustration.I have all the hardware, but lack knowledge! If I ask pinnacle, they tell me its a vista issue and microsoft support tells me to contact the OEM (Pinnacle).
I guess If microsoft cant tell me how to use a particular hardware with VIsta, they should just do away with WHQL and "Designed for Vista" BS that they keep boasting of.And if pinnacle cant tell me how to get it working with VMC, why have they certified it to work with vista? Grr!
Anyways.
2.If I connect STB to TV tuner via co-ax cable, picture quality is not great, but If I connect them via S-video, its good but I dont get sound.For sound I connect audio out of the STB to line in of my PC (the TV tuner has no audio-in).THis works well with the pinnacle media center and I get sound and video both.But in VMC, I dont get audio as I cant see any option to set up the audio input via Line-in.
Has anyone actually ever set up Vista media center with TATA-SKY completely? please help?
Has anyone been successfully able to set up TATA-sky set up vista media center to work with TATA-Sky digicomp set top box.I dont mean just viewing the picture on PC screen and changing channel via STB. I mean has nyone been able to get EVERYTHING working.Microsoft EPG, Scheduled recording, waking up to record, turning PC on/off from remote, changing channels and volume via media center remote. I Have the complete kit-Pinnacle 110i TV tuner, Vista ultimate,microsoft media center remote, IR blasters.It took me 5 years to save up from my salary to buy my PC and all this expensive expensive stuff ) But I just cant get TATA-sky to change channels on the set top box.I dont have internet in my living room so I skipped the parts where the setup asks to download settings of service providers,EPG etc.So U can imagine how many hair I have pulled out of my head in frustration.I have all the hardware, but lack knowledge! If I ask pinnacle, they tell me its a vista issue and microsoft support tells me to contact the OEM (Pinnacle).
I guess If microsoft cant tell me how to use a particular hardware with VIsta, they should just do away with WHQL and "Designed for Vista" BS that they keep boasting of.And if pinnacle cant tell me how to get it working with VMC, why have they certified it to work with vista? Grr! Anyways.2.If I connect STB to TV tuner via co-ax cable, picture quality is not great, but If I connect them via S-video, its good but I dont get sound.For sound I connect audio out of the STB to line in of my PC (the TV tuner has no audio-in).THis works well with the pinnacle media center and I get sound and video both.But in VMC, I dont get audio as I cant see any option to set up the audio input via Line-in.
Has anyone actually ever set up Vista media center with TATA-SKY completely? please help?
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