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Just got a Happauge 959Q Hybred TV Tuner. It's a USB device. Plug it into main pc running Win 7 Home Premium and it was recognized, downloaded drivers and once installed the WinTV 7 app from Happauge it went thru the channel scan and everything was hunky dory. Doing that with WMC and it's channel scan produced no channels until I found an add-on told WMC to check for over the air from attenna digital channels which apparently it doesn't check for (only old analog ones no longer available). Once this hack was installed WMC found the channels and it also works fine. Both produce very good pic and initial recording tests look much better than old analog gear I tried years ago now. So I take it to may laptop and start process all over again. Same results with one very big exception!!! WMC scans for channels and detects the Digital Tuner properly and even it's "location info". However after doing it's scan which presumably picks up the channels (it doesn't display what it found) else the info isn't shown instead being an error message (before add-on does this). However when I click on finish it gives an error and suggests I try again ... and again ... and .... The Happauge Win7 app seems to work fine in limited tests so far on the laptop so hardware definitely working even though as expected one of the channels doesn't appear. That's almost certainly because it's using a set of rabbit ears rather than rooftop attenna which the desktop unit uses. Haven't a clue how to proceed? |
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"pjp" wrote in message
... Just got a Happauge 959Q Hybred TV Tuner. It's a USB device. Plug it into main pc running Win 7 Home Premium and it was recognized, downloaded drivers and once installed the WinTV 7 app from Happauge it went thru the channel scan and everything was hunky dory. Doing that with WMC and it's channel scan produced no channels until I found an add-on told WMC to check for over the air from attenna digital channels which apparently it doesn't check for (only old analog ones no longer available). Once this hack was installed WMC found the channels and it also works fine. Both produce very good pic and initial recording tests look much better than old analog gear I tried years ago now. So I take it to may laptop and start process all over again. Same results with one very big exception!!! WMC scans for channels and detects the Digital Tuner properly and even it's "location info". However after doing it's scan which presumably picks up the channels (it doesn't display what it found) else the info isn't shown instead being an error message (before add-on does this). However when I click on finish it gives an error and suggests I try again ... and again ... and ... The Happauge Win7 app seems to work fine in limited tests so far on the laptop so hardware definitely working even though as expected one of the channels doesn't appear. That's almost certainly because it's using a set of rabbit ears rather than rooftop attenna which the desktop unit uses. Haven't a clue how to proceed? I have a Hauppauge WinTV DVB-T decoder which I used to use very well with WMC on my Vista and Win 7 PCs. I don't remember having to get an add-on utility. I only stopped using it when I got a new device (PCTV 290e) that does DVB-T2 (eg HD) as well as SD. As far as I remember, the Hauppauge drivers installed without any problem and WMC detected it and found all the channels. The only problem I have with WMC is that some channels don't automatically find the listings in the EPG, and you have to manually set up the correct channel-listings relationship. When WMC scans it displays the number of channels found so far and the names of them. The list has a scroll bar but it's difficult to keep it where you want it because it always returns to the top of the list (which may be the first mux to be detected). Have you specified your postcode correctly so WMC uses the correct transmitter? Try the laptop with the rooftop aerial, in case the rabbit ears aerial is not providing a strong enough signal. I've found that portable aerials are virtually useless, even when you are right next to the transmitter. |
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pjp wrote:
In article , says... In article , says... "pjp" wrote in message ... Just got a Happauge 959Q Hybred TV Tuner. It's a USB device. Plug it into main pc running Win 7 Home Premium and it was recognized, downloaded drivers and once installed the WinTV 7 app from Happauge it went thru the channel scan and everything was hunky dory. Doing that with WMC and it's channel scan produced no channels until I found an add-on told WMC to check for over the air from attenna digital channels which apparently it doesn't check for (only old analog ones no longer available). Once this hack was installed WMC found the channels and it also works fine. Both produce very good pic and initial recording tests look much better than old analog gear I tried years ago now. So I take it to may laptop and start process all over again. Same results with one very big exception!!! WMC scans for channels and detects the Digital Tuner properly and even it's "location info". However after doing it's scan which presumably picks up the channels (it doesn't display what it found) else the info isn't shown instead being an error message (before add-on does this). However when I click on finish it gives an error and suggests I try again ... and again ... and ... The Happauge Win7 app seems to work fine in limited tests so far on the laptop so hardware definitely working even though as expected one of the channels doesn't appear. That's almost certainly because it's using a set of rabbit ears rather than rooftop attenna which the desktop unit uses. Haven't a clue how to proceed? I have a Hauppauge WinTV DVB-T decoder which I used to use very well with WMC on my Vista and Win 7 PCs. I don't remember having to get an add-on utility. I only stopped using it when I got a new device (PCTV 290e) that does DVB-T2 (eg HD) as well as SD. As far as I remember, the Hauppauge drivers installed without any problem and WMC detected it and found all the channels. The only problem I have with WMC is that some channels don't automatically find the listings in the EPG, and you have to manually set up the correct channel-listings relationship. When WMC scans it displays the number of channels found so far and the names of them. The list has a scroll bar but it's difficult to keep it where you want it because it always returns to the top of the list (which may be the Doesn't appear to be an attenna problem. I use Hauppauge's WinTV8; it's better than WMC with their DVB-T sticks; http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/prod...ta_wintv8.html Ed |
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