Have a PC Windows 7, not w/ Media Cntr. The description 1st says this, "is a dual tuner CableCARD receiver for Your Windows 7 PC. So, will it work?
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as far as I know, it requires Media Center. Media Center: Windows Media Center is included in Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate
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While "Entreri" is correct, I HAVE placed one right next to the TV (cable TV tuner on my PC) and it worked great. It just depends on what's wrong with the signal in the first place.
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Anyone who would ask this question should not be tinkering with the insides of their computer. OK, I got lured in by Martin's comments about 7.1 sound. First off, get some local help. Not going to explain what coaxial is. Yes your recvr has two coaxial inputs so this card is applicable. See my post attesting to 5.1 sound, & curious whether 7.1 works also. Put a blue ray disk in your blue ray computer player, & find out. Thank us for the help by publishing your results.
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It is a tv tuner.It only receives your local stations. Number of stations will also depend on the quality of your tv antena. It is not pc tv.You can also hook it up to your cable box.
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think about what you are talking about for a moment. Your t.v. uses a coax cable hook up. You can plug the USB part of this device into the t.v. if your t.v. has a USB port but you will still be using the coax cable to access the tuner and the tuner that will be accessed is the tuner in the device you are thinking of buying. You probably will not get as many stations if you use the tuner that this device is equipped with; you will probably get more stations using your t.v.'s own tuner. Besides that the one that I got the package was okay but the device inside was broken; totally. If you do buy it; it was meant for the computer as a video capture device. Its up to you.
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The Channel Master 7001 tuner is not an analog tuner. It is a digital only type tuner. It can pick up digital ATSC signals (over the air digital signals) and it can pickup unscrambled QAM digital signals on a cable TV system. But neither of these two formats are the older type of NTSC "analog" signals you are asking about. Of course analog signals are no longer broadcast over the air and many cable systems are also getting rid of them too since it is an outdated approach. But many cable systems also still carry some analog signals (in standard definition) for those customers that don't want to pay for digital cable boxes or don't have compatible equipment. Most TVs today have both a built in digital tuner and an analog NTSC type tuner so a TV can scan in both types of channels. While it is a drawback of the 7001 tuner that it can't do analog NTSC channels, the price is still very low for what you get given its digital capabilities. I've bought mine realizing it was not going to do the analog channels. I've had it for about two months and really like it for receiving digital HD signals on cable. I use it with an Epson HD projector.
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It is meant to eliminate a cable box. Its a TV Tuner that works with Windows Media Center (DVR), or with DLNA TV/DLNA Devices. You can keep a cable box, but this works separately. Still have to rent a cable card from Service Provider. Also all devices that connect to it must be hooked into your home network (LAN).
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I don't know anything about Media Center but if you are using Beyond TV then definitely yes you can run two of these cards and have 4 functional tuners regardless of what operating system you are using.
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As long as you have software on the device that can pick up the tuners... than you are ok. So 3 separate pic's with WMC will work. An extender, like xbox uses a PC.. so as long as 2-3 extenders are connected to separate computers than yes...
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yes this attaches to your local network via cat5 cable and to your cable service with standard RG6 coaxial cable. you will need a multi stream cable card from the cable company. it is important that you get the M card or the tuner will not work but I had no problem getting the correct cable card from Comcast. once you set it up and install the software and driver from silicon dust included or downloaded you run the windows media center tv setup and it will find the tuners.if you are only using clear unencrypted channels the cable card may not be needed but to get pay channels or if charter encrypts all channels like Comcast does the cable card is needed. yes this attaches to your local network via cat5 cable and to your cable service with standard RG6 coaxial cable. you will need a multi stream cable card from the cable company. it is important that you get the M card or the tuner will not work but I had no problem getting the correct cable card from Comcast. once you set it up and install the software and driver from silicon dust included or downloaded you run the windows media center tv setup and it will find the tuners.if you are only using clear unencrypted channels the cable card may not be needed but to get pay channels or... » Read More yes this attaches to your local network via cat5 cable and to your cable service with standard RG6 coaxial cable. you will need a multi stream cable card from the cable company. it is important that you get the M card or the tuner will not work but I had no problem getting the correct cable card from Comcast. once you set it up and install the software and driver from silicon dust included or downloaded you run the windows media center tv setup and it will find the tuners.if you are only using clear unencrypted channels the cable card may not be needed but to get pay channels or if charter encrypts all channels like Comcast does the cable card is needed. « Show Less
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You cannot access digital cable stations with these homemade solutions. You will only access standard non encrypted cable and over the air broadcasts. You could possibly receive over the air HD broadcasts provided you purchased the right cards. However, by the time you buy the 3 video processing cards that would equal the dual tuners (and one for play back), you are looking at several hundred dollards already. The you have to factor in the rest of the computer, the harddrive space, etc.
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No, and it makes no sense to do so. Unless you're talking a very old TiVo (series2), then the TiVo itself would use the same cablecard you would need to enable this tuner. If that's the case, just put the cablecard in the TiVo and be done with it.
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Remove the AverMedia software from Windows. You only need the driver and windows will install it by its self. You do have to run the windows setup program from within Media Center.It does work perfectly. I am running Windows 7 media center on a dedicated computer with 6 AverMedia tuners (two are this exact model) and 11 terabytes of storage. It will record 6 shows at once all at high def and allow you to watch something else at the same time.I am buying a new one because one of my old tuners has died. I am using all USB tuners.
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I have no first hand experience with it on Windows 7, but according to Hauppauge, it should work. http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/windows7_product_list.html. Good luck. Since Comcast switched to digital cable and require CableCards, I'm using a Ceton InfiniTV4 with Windows 7 Media Center have never looked back. The PVR-500 was a great solution for its time with analog cable and BeyondTV.
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No.....but you do have to make sure your cable cord to your PC is not all tangled up (Ceton mentioning this on one of their pamphlet inside the product's box), so it can receive all of your tuners and information.
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seems to be ok with win7. when you plug it into the usb , it shows as another drive. just open the folder and the captured files are there to open in media player or previewer. built in memory is enough to start capturing, but 32gb cards are good for much longer capture. battery life is short (about 10 min for me) but this is ment to be power from the car socket as a dashcam. it's light enough to stick to your guitar to capture the pick view or hang on you neck to get that view like in the old tv serial "search".
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The previous answer is not quite 100% correct. This unit does have an ANALOG tuner, which will no longer work with today's over-the-air digital high definition broadcasts. The tuner will work with basic, unencrypted, analog cable, but that's it.