Windos XP Media Center Edition

**notEworthy27** · February 5th, 2007 03:29 AM

Originally Posted by Tacoma_34

Its just an XP in steroids with all the multimedia mombos.

meaning what? :D is it better or not?

**Tacoma_34** · February 5th, 2007 03:48 AM

It is alright to have MCE IMO. If you are really into multimedia stuff yes why not.

Sending it is more expensive than the item itself :D.

**Jun aka Pekto** · February 5th, 2007 07:24 AM

Originally Posted by notEworthy27

meaning what? :D is it better or not?

It's definitely better than XP Pro. I mean how many people actually use XP's domain/Active Directory/network related features, esp at home? The only features of XP Pro that I liked were Backup and support for dual processors. The former, I found 3rd party apps for while the latter was pretty much made passe by dualcore cpu's.

Certainly, once I make our 32" lcd tv my primary pc monitor, MCE will become much more important. But, I'd wait until I buy Vista Home Premium for that.

I like it:

**boybi** · February 18th, 2007 10:24 PM

ok, last question before i proceed to install MCE:

does my PC need to be MCE compatible to be able to use MCE?

my PC's specs:
Athlon64 3200
1gb ram
GeForce 6800GS

**Jun aka Pekto** · February 18th, 2007 10:53 PM

Originally Posted by boybi

ok, last question before i proceed to install MCE:

does my PC need to be MCE compatible to be able to use MCE?

my PC's specs:
Athlon64 3200
1gb ram
GeForce 6800GS

It should be fine. Where compatibility issues lie are mainly with tv tuners if you have one.

**boybi** · February 18th, 2007 11:13 PM

but can i still use my old TV tuner and use its own installation softwares?

**Jun aka Pekto** · February 20th, 2007 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by boybi

but can i still use my old TV tuner and use its own installation softwares?

You should be able to use it. It's Windows Media Center that won't use it.

**boybi** · February 20th, 2007 11:14 PM

thanks JAP! hopefully, i'll find time to install MCE within the next few days.

**Jun aka Pekto** · February 21st, 2007 05:39 AM

Just make sure you download the latest XP driver for the tv tuner. Make sure Windows MCE is fully updated first including the latest video card drivers before installing the tv tuner (using the latest drivers).

My old Hauppage WinTV PCI tv tuner is still in use up to now under XP Pro of my wife's pc. It is however too old to record anything reliably beyond mpeg1. No big deal since anything I record nowadays will eventually be transcoded to iPod mp4. 320x240 is sufficient enough.

Strange how things work out..... The state of the art iPod made my junky old tv tuner useful again.

Add: My daughter wants all her Pokemon and anime movies transcoded to iPod mp4 which is why I've taken that old Hauppage out of retirement.