Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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Does Media Center work with a sky input?
I use media centers all around the house and im considering getting sky, but im not sure the best way around it.
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Aaron
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Off topic, but what Media Centre's do you have? are they custom builds? I've got a PC which i brought home from work but its a tad too noisey for me
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Bart
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you can easily turn that into a media center, buy a slimline case like this:
buy some quiet fans and a PCI TV card (starting from £40), install vista home premium and your away.
The main benefits for me, is pausing live tv, automatically recording TV at the touch of a button, the same for recording series.
I also download millions of films and store them on my NAS, and thus stream video from my NAS to my media pc downstairs. I dont have to worry about file formats as PCs can deal with just about anything.
I've also just bought myself a Linksys DMA2200 media center extender:
 which is basically a cut down version of a media center.
Its an extender so it has to tie in with an existing media center to save/load, but ultimatly it can stream videos from a NAS without going through another machine, so this will sit quite nicely in my main bedroom.
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Aaron
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Yeah i do the same thing film wise, i rip DVD's or download them. They're all stored on my server and i use Home Plugs to stream to my living room 
Case's look good 
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Cosmo
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Home Plugs rock
I shall be bulding myself a media centre when Im back from my hols me thinks.
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Aaron
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We could set up a digital film sharing ring 
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Cosmo
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like the Geek Mafia
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Bart
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yep, same as me, HDX101 from network to media pc downstairs and then wirelessN up to bedroom shortly when the extender arrives.
Gigabit between all desktops and raid5 Nas device.
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Dom
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You thinking of grabbing a load of PCI(-e) Sat Cards and using them? Or having a sky box feeding a TV card?
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Doug
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Bart your cupboard must get hot with that rats nest in there 
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Tim
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Vista Media Center doesn't support DVB-S/S2 at the moment. It's still rumoured to be included in the feature update due out in October...
I use VMC with a Nova-T 500 freeview card at the moment, but also have a DVB-S2 card for watching sat and HD (BBC/ITV etc) with DVBViewer. Will be nice when that works in VMC (you can hack it now, but I want the much more usable built-in support)...
[Edited on 09-08-2008 by Tim]
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Dom
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Do software like Myth support Sky Cards?
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by Tim
Vista Media Center doesn't support DVB-S/S2 at the moment. It's still rumoured to be included in the feature update due out in October...
I use VMC with a Nova-T 500 freeview card at the moment, but also have a DVB-S2 card for watching sat and HD (BBC/ITV etc) with DVBViewer. Will be nice when that works in VMC (you can hack it now, but I want the much more usable built-in support)...
[Edited on 09-08-2008 by Tim]
Thanks Tim, I will bare this in mind, think i'll just be switching between inputs on the tv then 
It appears that Windows Fiji (new MCE) will support DVB-s/2
Source
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Rob_Quads
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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Is it going to support the right codecs though as from what I have ready H.264 has been dropped from the TV Pack update.
Also it looks like the TV Pack is only going to be installed as OEM - Wonder how long it takes for it to leak out.
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Tim
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Installed the TV Pack. Doesn't support H264, but the DVB-S integration is very well done. I can still listen to BBC HD audio (and does pass-through DD5.1)
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