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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Windows Media Center isn't ready for the digital transition]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</guid><description><![CDATA[Not only that... Microsoft is not aware that Canada (you know... the largest country in the world that is about 125 miles north of Redmont?) also uses the ATSC standard! That's right, even though lots of Canadian broadcasters are now doing so in full high-definition using ASTC, we're still stuck with analog-only Media Center. Now that's not just "not ready for digital transition", it's not-ready-for-digital-at-all. At least my ATSC-enabled TV does not care in which country it is...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 17th 2009 8:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Windows Media Center isn't ready for the digital transition]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yep, Microsoft seems to be completely ignoring Canada, which is kinda hard considering how close the Microsoft campus is to the border. Its silly to purposely piss off a whole country of willing consumers on purpose.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[lilricky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 17th 2009 8:26PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Windows Media Center isn't ready for the digital transition]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</guid><description><![CDATA[Thank you, Ben, for reporting on this. <br><br>Engadget HD has the power to make MS give the right priority to this, as can be seen here:<br><a href="http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/permalink/343325/344347/ShowThread.aspx#344347" rel="nofollow">http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/permalink/343325/344347/ShowThread.aspx#344347</a><br><br>As one of the people affected by this VMC Guide Outage, I thank you.<br><br>If you get an update on the fix, please report it here. I read this blog every day.<br><br>Marcelino Martins<br><a href="http://mmartins.com" rel="nofollow">http://mmartins.com</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcelino Martins]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 17th 2009 10:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Windows Media Center isn't ready for the digital transition]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</guid><description><![CDATA[very nice ,thanks for your sharing .,]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[anny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 3:48AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Windows Media Center isn't ready for the digital transition]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</guid><description><![CDATA[The situation in the UK is the same for dvb-s.  I can recieve about 1800 channels<br>but I only ever get now + next guide info (which only updates if you tune each <br>individual channel), so scheduling recordings is impossible.  I even added an<br>analogue tuner and digibox to try to get $KY TV guide - still won't work.<br><br>I honestly don't think microsoft care either, threads on green button just<br>get ignored]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 7:52AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Windows Media Center isn't ready for the digital transition]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ben - I've seen this same problem too.  My posts at TheGreenButton.com go unanswered so maybe this article will bring some exposure to light and light a fire under Microsoft to fix it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 8:29AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Windows Media Center isn't ready for the digital transition]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</guid><description><![CDATA[I was able to get around this issue by hacking the registry and tricking the MCE guide.   It took most of Sunday, but got it working.  What a pain.  I changed the registry keys that control the guide to point to my local digital cable provider.  Had to determine what there guide code was.  Then I deleted all the channels out of the atscchannels.xml file.  Then I was able to manually setup the digital channels and associate them with the cable provider’s guide.  Now I am getting guide data for the channels that my digital cable provider offers.  I am missing guide data for the PBS substations and one other small carrier.  But I do have guide data back for NBC and Fox.  Can continue recording 24 and the Office.  MS needs to get this fixed ASAP.  By the way, I am running Vista.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Mosher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 11:19AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Windows Media Center isn't ready for the digital transition]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</guid><description><![CDATA[While I was setting up Win7 beta, I had to input a US zipcode from Grand Island NY, using that I got the guide with US and Canadian stations, although my indoor antenna cannot reach Buffalo, it did work for the Canadian OTA stations]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Varney]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 12:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Windows Media Center isn't ready for the digital transition]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</guid><description><![CDATA[I really like Media Center, but it does have its fallbacks.  I have had past programming guide problems as well, but MS usually gets things taken care of.  I agree they should be more responsive to end-user feedback.  Part of the problem is that despite its technical merits, Media Center's market penetration, while admirable, still has a ways to go: <a href="http://www.statowl.com/microsoft_media_center.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.statowl.com/microsoft_media_center.php</a><br><br>While there may be 25% market penetration, that is just the people who have it installed, the actual percentage that utilize Media Center is MUCH smaller.  I think once Media Center catches on more, it will get more attention.  Too bad you still cannot plugin a PCI cable card.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jolt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2009 2:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Windows Media Center isn't ready for the digital transition]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</guid><description><![CDATA[Unlike the Max X debacle of last summer, I'm not being affected by this. It sucked waking up Sunday only to find that Max X didn't record because WCIU added DRM that would let me record the show.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Garst]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 19th 2009 3:38AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Windows Media Center isn't ready for the digital transition]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why doesn't this surprise me? <br><br>I mean, didn't they just finish fixing that whole Y2K thing? <br><br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 21st 2009 4:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Windows Media Center isn't ready for the digital transition]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</guid><description><![CDATA[It is not true that this is not affecting Windows 7 beta users. I was fine until tonight...had guide data for all my OTA sub channels, and now I have nothing...no guide data, and apparently no hope of getting it. I'm running the 32 bit version of build 7057.  It is incredible to me that Microsoft is so inept as to not have addressed this problem. I had such high hopes for Windows 7, and once again I guess I'll be forced to fall back to XP and something like BeyondTV.....Ugh.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 24th 2009 9:19PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Windows Media Center isn't ready for the digital transition]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/windows-media-center-isnt-ready-for-the-digital-transition/</guid><description><![CDATA[UPONLOOSING TV SIGNAL [DELL TECH SUPPORT INFORMED ME TO CONNECT A CONVERTER BOX] NOW I AM LOST JUST LIKE MY TV PICTURE! CAN ANYONE HELP ME?bohica@boom14verizon.net]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bohica]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2009 5:56PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>