Vista will not require a NTSC tuner

It wasn't that long ago that we were amazed that the NTSC requirement from Windows XP Media Center Edition was still a fact of life in Windows Vista Beta 2. This really bothered us for obvious reasons, like we have room for a NTSC card in our ultimate HD Media Center PC. Even if we did it, would take up the space for one of our ATSC tuners.

Lucky for us the official unofficial word is out, Jay P. Kapur of the Media Center TV Team confirmed at AVS Forum that Vista will not need an NTSC Tuner!

[Via Chris Lanier's Blog]

[(Unverified) Posted May 29th 2006 4:22PM]

Who cares? How about releasing an update for MCE 2005 to not require an analog tuner?

[(Unverified) Posted May 30th 2006 8:25AM]

NTSC tuner? When I last installed MCE it didn't fart or cry about there not being a tuner in the PC, let alone an SD (NTSC) tuner. And considering the world's move to HD (and ATSC), why would one expect an NTSC tuner be required for non-HD?