Windows Media Center

I live in the L.A. CA area and get TV over the air.

The TV listing get updated every few weeks.

Unfortunately, there are many channels that get listed that are not
really available in the area. And some are available but foreign
language that I do not need to view.

How do I tell Media Center not to show or list those channels ?

Baby steps for me please as I am not well versed in computers.
Thank you.

Moony wrote:
I live in the L.A. CA area and get TV over the air.

The TV listing get updated every few weeks.

Unfortunately, there are many channels that get listed that are not
really available in the area. And some are available but foreign
language that I do not need to view.

How do I tell Media Center not to show or list those channels ?

Baby steps for me please as I am not well versed in computers.
Thank you.

There is actually a signal strength scanner, which lists
the channels currently in your list, and shows the signal
strength next to them. A good channel has five green bars.
The picture I have here, shows a bunch that should be
unticked, because they're not really within range.

https://s9.postimg.org/p2l9bworj/sig...ength_scan.gif

There's a "Tasks" near the bottom of the WMC screen.
Tasks : Settings : TV : TV Signal : Digital TV Antenna Signal Strength

http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/image...oper_fig08.jpg

There's more pictures on that site, here.

"Setting Up and Watching ATSC with Windows Media Center"

http://www.informit.com/articles/art...96502&seqNum=4

*******

In Canada, it's hell getting this stuff set up. Consider
yourself lucky. Ours doesn't work out of the box, and
there's *one* blog site with instructions on how to
use loadmxf to configure for Canada and get the
right Guide Data. If I don't use this, my tuner stays
stuck on Analog, and we have zero Analog transmitters
here now. So the "TV tube stays dark" without this.
It takes forever to find this again.

https://pnear.wordpress.com/2009/07/...windows-7-rtm/

Paul

Thank you !

In article , lid says...

Moony wrote:
I live in the L.A. CA area and get TV over the air.

The TV listing get updated every few weeks.

Unfortunately, there are many channels that get listed that are not
really available in the area. And some are available but foreign
language that I do not need to view.

How do I tell Media Center not to show or list those channels ?

Baby steps for me please as I am not well versed in computers.
Thank you.

There is actually a signal strength scanner, which lists
the channels currently in your list, and shows the signal
strength next to them. A good channel has five green bars.
The picture I have here, shows a bunch that should be
unticked, because they're not really within range.

https://s9.postimg.org/p2l9bworj/sig...ength_scan.gif

There's a "Tasks" near the bottom of the WMC screen.
Tasks : Settings : TV : TV Signal : Digital TV Antenna Signal Strength

http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/image...oper_fig08.jpg

There's more pictures on that site, here.

"Setting Up and Watching ATSC with Windows Media Center"

http://www.informit.com/articles/art...96502&seqNum=4

*******

In Canada, it's hell getting this stuff set up. Consider
yourself lucky. Ours doesn't work out of the box, and
there's *one* blog site with instructions on how to
use loadmxf to configure for Canada and get the
right Guide Data. If I don't use this, my tuner stays
stuck on Analog, and we have zero Analog transmitters
here now. So the "TV tube stays dark" without this.
It takes forever to find this again.

https://pnear.wordpress.com/2009/07/...windows-7-rtm/

Paul

I agree, Canada is a bitch. I found same little package set things up
right for me. That said, WMC itself seems pretty flaky. I have three
different Win7 pcs I've tried my Hauppage USB stick in and only one pc
worked, the other two crap out after searching for channels. Thankfully
Haupagge's own WinTV works and seems just as easy to use.

Oh and one of my channels never has any guide info so have to record
using manual method.