CoffeeFiend

Ok, I re-read the whole post Just a couple remarks, no actual anwer... -I've never seen a ATSC card for cable. All of them (that I've seen) were only for the OTA HDTV stuff. In fact, comcast is the first time I even hear about a cable company using ATSC (256 QAM in this case) And after searching on google and avsforum, I didn't find a single person who mentionned doing something similar to that. Also, even if there was such a card (which I does not exist I believe), it would also have to support that one modulation type (which could be hard to find - even if you meant to use it for the OTA stuff...) Also, there are very good chances that - the signal is encrypted over the cable, so no card could work anyways... -As far as ATSC tuners go, they do not need hardware encoding assist as they capture the digital transportstream. Some have decoding as you gotta play the stuff, and since all of them (that I've seen, anyways) were meant for HD purposes, most PC can use the help... -As for the MCE 2005 compatibility, unless something has changed a lot and that I didn't hear about it, no, it won't support any of those cards. MCE only supports crappy analog TV tuners (those things that capture a analog signal and recompress it) - not ATSC cards or such devices. You'd be stuck using some 3rd party apps. Sorry, I think you're stuck with your PVR 350 and the old crappy analog 480i stuff for another while. [edit] Other than the usual crappy analog tv tuners, here's what it does support Media Center Edition 2005 also supports HDTV via broadcast (OTA) and unencrypted QAM. This is accomplished via BDA (Broadcasting Driver Architecture) compatible drivers. As of this writing, the following tuner cards are confirmed compatible with MCE 2005: • Vbox DTA 151 • DVICO Fusion-HDTV3-T • ATI HDTV Wonder So, I guess, you ARE stuck with your PVR 350 now. Sorry. Now feel free to vent like we are, now that you realized that you're stuck in the same boat I don't really care for recording HD actually (even though I sometimes do) but I want digital recordings as well (which I'm already doing) but thru a PVR software or MCE, and like I said before - that's expecting too much, it's not gonna happen. So you can either have the nice MCE and such software along with crappy analog capturing (which you seem to prefer) or 100% quality, digital captures (no reencoding, smaller files, etc) with lesser software (in terms of integration, anyways) Sucks eh? (even if technotrend makes BDA drivers, we're not gonna see DVB-S working on MCE anytime soon either - which is the ONLY thing I'd care for, anything else is completely irrelevant to me)

badger is nice too but I didn't think it was known this well! (for the non-initiated yet... Badger! )

hahaha good one! I've converted dozens and dozens to firefox, I don't let friends down with IE

Oh, I think it'll be more than that. I'd settle for digitally captured 480p (like I've already been doing for a couple years) but with like a MCE interface - but I can't even see that happen in 2 years - let alone HD I guess we can get all this buy buying a expensive and fancy HD PVR - which is probably what I'll end up doing soon as it'll still be the only option. Sometimes you just can't win

the DEL command will delete anything you want... in the start menu, desktop or anywhere. Here's an example to delete that annoying winzip link (goes inside a .bat or .cmd file): del "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\WinZip.lnk"

Here's what I use: setup.exe /silent /nocancel /nolicense /burnrights:all /noreboot /no_ui

The AVerMedia M150 is just another TV tuner, of course it works seamlessly... It's not a ATSC tuner at all. It's not what he wants at all. There's tons of analog capture cards for that 480i stuff, it's definately not an issue finding one of those. I'm glad I'm not doing those analog captures of 480i stuff anymore... Once you try something else, you never want to go back to it.

I think you're dreaming here. The IT market is flooded, and we got MCSE kids working at minimum wage in computer shops. One of the places I buy charges 29$ cdn (about 20 USD) for ANY JOB (no matter what), and there's a lot of kids around that would do it for maybe less than that. 1) You're not gonna do that by hand. The main thing is having the software to do it. Some of it is free too... I don't think you want to sell them a license of something, so I'm assuming you'll load some free app on there and let it scan... I can hardly imagine getting paid anything for that... (ok, you can, but nothing major) 2) Very easy stuff. Mostly anybody has friends, relatives or whatever that would do it for free anyways. If not, a quick post to a local newgroups will get you 3 dozen offers of people that will do it for next to nothing - or the neighbour's kids, a friend's friend or what not) 3) Most people that get into that (more than 1 PC) are usually not beginners, and they can manage the plug-and-go easy installs, running ICS or following the very easy steps to install a router, especially with all the easy documentation they come with nowadays and free tech support... Again, there's tons of ppl that would fix it for not much... If you're aiming at corporate users, maybe you can expect some ok pay, but even then, I see some consultants sent by manufacturers to get warranty work done on their PCs and the pay REALLY sucks too (a few bucks per call). Most local shops hire ppl to do those jobs at minimum wage and the market is flooded with them - even at that price. My only advice - find something else to do with your time - it will pay more no matter what. People just don't want to pay that much. Even at that 20$ rate we see here, people don't even bring them in to get them fixed - they find cheaper solutions. I've seen many people say things like this: After studying in computer science you can either: -go work where the jobs are getting offshorred to -work for yourself as a consultant -be on welfare (not work) and in all 3 cases, you'll be making the exact same $ Sorry to say, but there really is no money to make here, NOWHERE near as much as what you posted...

Reconing the whole thing just isn't an option. Unless you don't mind waiting 5 years+ for the next OS? Even with that many coders it would take ages. And if you're bothering making a new OS from scratch, you might as well make a whole new platform from scratch too while you're at it. It's not gonna happen no matter what. (Although I hear lots are moving to iMacs to get those 2 )

Hmm, ok I wish it was always this easy to solve

change start /wait %systemdrive%\TCGDiagnosticsApps\registry.reg /s for start /wait regedit /s %systemdrive%\TCGDiagnosticsApps\registry.reg (I don't even use start /wait in front if it personally)

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I mean clogging as the epsons with the print heads being part of the printer itself instead of the print cartridges. I had a 450$ printers die within a year like that once... Wasn't laughing when they told me it was 300$ to fix it. It's not from printing photos (actually, I'm a lot into photography - but I don't print them myself - I send it all to a pro lab). It's coming from NOT using it and the ink drying into the print heads... It looks like you really want a AIO anyways, so sure... If I was going to get one, I'd probably pick an HP. I'm not sure if they got a networked one for that price mind you. The PSC 2710 seems to be along the lines of what you want and within the price range but it only has wireless networking. I'm not sure if you will find a networked one within that price (you might if you look hard enough) There are new print servers that do work with inkjets (seen many for like 50$) but I doubt it would work with a AIO for scanning and such.

All AV's even from the 90's do basic virus detection (monitoring what the apps do, won't let them do bad things) If it relies more on it's signatures than another AV? Hard to tell, but it's updated very often, and the viruses are added quickly to the signatures. I have yet to see a virus that it didn't catch. I don't actually use dit for on demand scanning much, as once your data ha all been scanned once most likely there is none, and as I'd come across it, it would see it anyways. As for it slowing down the PC, I'd have to say exactly the inverse, it's MUCH better than norton (and most others) stuff wrt.

Tuners for OTA HDTV don't need hw encoding, they record the incoming stream as is, it's not doing analog capture. As for decoding, the more expensive cards do it, but most video cards today are pretty powerful, so i don't know if you'd really want to shell out the extra $ for that. As for card recommendations, I'm sorry but I can't really make any recommendations, as there are no such broadcasts here... Also, they won't work as a TV Tuner in MCE, so good bye to the integration of everything. Also, you can have problems with broadcast flags. And if you intend to plug to your tv by the means of a component dongle, in many cases the signal will only be 480p - not HD (thanks to macrovision). I've seen reviews about many cards that said they were not very good for certain modulations even though they said they worked with it... I got a HTPC, and I'm p***ed off by things like this. You'd think by now there would be ways to record digitally your stuff (PVR it, anyways) and play it back, HD or not. But rather, they're all working on "features" like multi analog tuners and such - just in case you have rabbit ears along with your analog cable (which all are mostly aimed at). I don't know about you, but everybody I know either has satellite or digital cable. Not rabit ears anymore, the 70's are over. You'd think microsoft is big and powerful enough that they could convince satellite companies of using dvb cards with media center, and making it use a normal smartcard/cam to capture digitally the channels one suscribes to (even if it means heavy DRM), but instead, it seems we're trapped in this old analog captuing 480i stone age. Satellite and cable companies already have HDTV PVRs that record as is, with no recompression/capturing, and their integration (tv guide, menus and such) is good too. They're still light-years ahead of MCE and similar products with regards to that. You can keep dreaming about that nice HTPC that will do all that nice stuff, but it just won't happen... About your original Q (which card to get - if you still want to bother with it), the best I could say is read on avsforum's HTPC section...

I tend to use both but maybe a bit more with the left one, I still have a old habit from the autocad dos days... You'd type a letter for the command with the left hand, tap space with the thumb, click on your dwg with the right hand on the mouse... like such l [space] e [space] and then click on the line's end with the right hand mouse or whatever (l for line, and e for end of) ... I don't know of one ever fully recovers from that old habit.

Personally, I wouldn't want to spend as much money as they want for a AIO inkjet. I'd rather change printer quite often. I just picked up a cheap 50$ epson with like 4x the resolution of my 2yo HP that costed 200$... The technology gets better too fast to want to stick to one for any amount of time. (If it was to do all over again, I'd get a cheap B&W laser instead) I'd avoid one that has printing heads being part of the printer too if I paid that much for one in case they clog up. Too much money to get it fixed, but printer is worth too much to want to get rid of it too. As for the jetdirect, they're mostly meant for laser printers, not inkjets (unless the new ones have changed). The only networked printer I've bought lately is a HP Business InkJet 2300n (well over 400$) and I couldn't see myself spend that kind of money on anything like that for home, and the print quality is already "just ok". In a year or 2, it will definately be sub par to 50$ cheap epsons...

Nice one, thanks! (and again, kaspersky takes the top position)

-3 means "Required data not found in the Setup.iss file", did you create it yourself?

There actually are firmware updates for this drive that resolve CD-RW problems. Sad thing is, it will most likely be easier to find firmware for the drive from other sources than LG... Mind you it's only a 8x drive, and you can buy DL DVD burners for 60$ now...

It's very easy... You can either use AutoRun (autorun.inf) or double click manually on a .cmd file that will contain all the commands to insall your apps (just like you would do it at GUIRunOnce). It's hardly different than installing them after installing windows.

Never seen it or even heard of it, and we have tons of people using it who never complained either... I can't see that as a reason to stay with some old version. Can't be that much of an issue.

What's the model of the CD writer?

Any reasons to say that? ... I much prefer 2003 sp1 over XP SP *anything* like most people have answered before.

The cache and double memory bandwidth don't make anything near that much difference at all. Memory bandwidth is only about 3%, and cache wise, it doesn't affect the cpu much either, unlike it would on a P4. And the Sempron being clocked so much faster, that sempron will run today at almost the same speed as a Athlon 64 4000 will. Stability wise, it is very stable they say (only the CPU runs faster, not the rest of the system-which is most of the problem usually). I'm not a overclocking fan by any means (at least when it comes to water cooling and stuff like that to save 20$ on a faster CPU) but this one is a killer. And again, Memory bandwidth and cache don't make such a big difference at all (it's a lot more about low latencies than memory bandwidth). It's more like 10% tops for both, nothing that will bring that Athlon 64 anywhere as fast as the sempron would run. The sempron 3100+ benches the same thing as a Athlon 64 2800 on most tests, OC'ed, it just slaughters it - also on memory bandwitdh benches even though the memory bandwidh is lower and that the L2 cache is smaller... Athlon 64's don't overclock well at all (they're already clocked to the limit, and bigger die size won't help either), and socket 939 isn't good for that either from what most places say. Of course, if you can afford the athlon 64 4000 now and get a nforce 4 board next week... The Athlon 64 is nicer, but I like the more for less idea. Socket 939 doesn't deliver more performance right now (even for more money), and as you'll need to upgrade, you'll be getting another board anyways... So I hardly see any benefit to it for now or later. If you really don't want to OC at all then I suppose the Athlon 64 might be a better pick for you.