RE: MCE Dual Tuner Card - 1st Impressions

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

True - and in that line make the fast forward and rewind
"increments" less
aggressive ... the first "fast forward" press is quite mild but
subsequent
ones are bloody fast. ;-)

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Keith Finnett
> Sent: 12 January 2006 20:24
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] MCE Dual Tuner Card - 1st Impressions
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> The other thing I wish MCE did is the Tivo fast-forward rewind on
pressing
> play - so you can forward through the ads, hit the play button and it
> rewinds a few seconds to resume the recording where you saw (rather
than
> when you pressed).
>
> Maybe Vista will do it....
>
> k
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Phil Harris
> Sent: 12 January 2006 19:32
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] MCE Dual Tuner Card - 1st Impressions
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> You'll like MCE (I think) - the only think I wish it were possible to
do
> (and this was possible on TiVo) is to set up a low priority wishlist
item
> of
> "films" as a general category so that if it isn't doing
anything (i.e. not
> recording something that you have scheduled) then it will record *ANY*
> films
> that happen to be on at the time. OK - On TiVo that meant that it
would
> record the first film that was on and ignore any starting whilst it
was on
> so it was a bit random but it did mean that you always had a stash of
> films
> to watch when things were a bit flat otherwise.
>
> That's the only thing I really miss with not having TiVo in use any
> longer.
>
> Phil
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> > Mark McCall
> > Sent: 12 January 2006 19:12
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] MCE Dual Tuner Card - 1st Impressions
> >
> > I decided to try turning a fairly beefy PC I got recently into an
MCE
> box
> > so
> > I purchased one of those new dual Freeview tuner cards (Terratec
Cinergy
> > 2400i DT - http://tinyurl.com/dpoxl )
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> > After a couple of days with it, it seems to work brilliantly. 
I've been
> > recording one channel whilst watching another, recording two
channels at
> > once etc.  It all seems to work really well (and the 400gig SATA
drive
> > shows
> > as 305 hours available record time) :)
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> > I've setup lots of scheduled recordings for the next couple of
weeks and
> > I'll keep an eye on it.
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