Hi!

So I just bought a new HP HDX laptop and decided that getting a TV Tuner card would save bringing a TV to school with me.

I have an HDTV Tuner Card that came with the antenna.
The first time I set up the card, I chose to use the antenna to see if the card was working, I could get a signal etc...
Now, I tried taking out the  antenna and hard wiring it into the cable that I have in my house. Windows Media Center won't recognize that I have hard wired the cable and is searching for a signal from the antenna, that is not plugged in.

I can't figure out how to change what it is trying to get the signal from? Is this a Media Center issue or is this a card problem? Or a Vista problem that I don't know of?

Sounds like you just need to run the setup for TV again. 

Tasks/Settings/TV/Set Up TV Signal

Yup, that's all you need to do, and it will re-scan you TV signal.

Your card might not support the signal though. So if you've already run that, and still had the problem, that's probably why.

warlock:

Sounds like you just need to run the setup for TV again. 

Tasks/Settings/TV/Set Up TV Signal

I have done this, and it won't recognize the hard wire still.

Foxer:

Yup, that's all you need to do, and it will re-scan you TV signal. Your card might not support the signal though. So if you've already run that, and still had the problem, that's probably why.

Why wouldn't it support the signal? It's an HD TV Tuner card that came with the adapter to plug it into the hard wire instead of the antenna.

Did you try setting it up manually?

I have this EXACT same issue. I've tried everything from removing the drivers and re-installing to deleting registry entries and EVERYTIME I go back to VMC it forces me to use the digital antenna. Sometimes VMC says "new hardware detected" and when I set it up manuall it skips the part where it lets me say what set up I and goes right to getting the "guide data" forcing me into the antenna mode again. Nothing I have tried from this forum has worked and I've seen quite a few posts on the subject, none of them addressed by MS. Please help.

Cable systems generally use QAM (Quadriture Amplitude Modulation) and you must be sure that your card supports that.

OTA (Over The Air) ATSC broadcast uses 8VSB (8-level Vestigal Sideband Modulation). Most cards only support 8VSB. Even if your card does support QAM Vista Media Center doesn't support QAM without some add-ons. TV-Pack 2008 is supposed to allow QAM but my experience wasn't great. I have a Hhauppauge 2250 which does support QAM and I got a hold of copy of TVPack, loaded it on a brand new Vista image as was suggested a few months back, It sort of worked but not reliably so I gave up on it.

Good Luck,

SD

 

 

Luski:

Hi!

So I just bought a new HP HDX laptop and decided that getting a TV Tuner card would save bringing a TV to school with me.

I have an HDTV Tuner Card that came with the antenna.
The first time I set up the card, I chose to use the antenna to see if the card was working, I could get a signal etc...
Now, I tried taking out the  antenna and hard wiring it into the cable that I have in my house. Windows Media Center won't recognize that I have hard wired the cable and is searching for a signal from the antenna, that is not plugged in.

I can't figure out how to change what it is trying to get the signal from? Is this a Media Center issue or is this a card problem? Or a Vista problem that I don't know of?

A lot of the 'portable' tv tuner cards do not do hardware mpeg2 encoding of analog content and you have to ensure that the software encoder (usually on the CD that came with the tuner card) is installed to enable analog cable content.

If you are not using the TVPack or Windows Vista, you will not get QAM unless there is a plugin available from the manufacture of the tuner. What is the brand/model # of the tuner?