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RE: Windows Media Center, recording TV shows

> The Media Center display is far cruder in that it has only 5 bars

Windows 7 Media Center (now) uses a 6-segment indicator.

> Is it possible to use the tuner on the Panny LCD set as a tuner source for Media Center?

No, for several reasons. Your TV probably does not have any video output connections; there may be a digital audio output from the tuner. MC needs to be able to change channels; your laptop/PC does not have a wired or IR control interface to the TV's tuner.

You could try a USB tuner for your laptop. Some people have claimed some digital TV tuners can't handle multipath. LG introduced its "6th generation" of ATSC tuners with claims of better reception in spite of multipath. I'm about 35 miles from the transmission towers and only have minor multipath (mostly from neighbors' metal roofs), and every ATSC tuner I've tried (about eight over the past 7 years) had acceptable performance. So the only rec I can make is look at http://www.hdtvtunerinfo.com/besthdtvtuner.html


BTW the most useful feature of Windows MC I've found has been the PVR plus closed captioning. When the dialog from the TV is unintelligible, I rewind a bit and mute the audio. The repeated playback will be with captions so that the garbled speech can be read!



Edits: 11/08/11

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