You are probably experiencing a poor combination of the video's frame rate and your display's refresh rate. You either need your refresh rate to be evenly divisible by the movie's frame rate (ie: 24fps/144hz) or if you have the proper equipment, enable VRR (variable refresh rate) so your display...

I receive 50+ OTA channels myself and no cable TV. I leave the WMC guide set at HDTV, which results in 11 channels. So I played with the EPG123 guide settings to make them all fit on one screen without scrolling. Our Apple TV 4K box feeds us Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, etc. so we have more...

I believe purple drives are for real time recording of video (the most mentioned is surveillance systems), so for a drive dedicated to recording video it might be a good option, however if you ever want to use it for other purposes, it is probably not the best option (in fact there are reports that...

System has been bullet proof for a long time now, I still have the free guide data running, last time I even looked at was last summer. Guide is 100% accurate 99.5% of the time. System is running at 4K @60hz and on Windows 8.1 (with a start menu program), I keep over 550 movies in the built in...

Windows Task Scheduler can restart the PC for you.

I imagine the protected recordings can be copied from the old hard drive to your current one. Or share the folder and play those recordings on the PC you just got. What do you need to play protected recordings?

Windows Task Scheduler is a good...

These new drivers have been mostly fine, however I have experienced an intermittent incorrect black-level issue in Media Center since installing them. It is fine most of the time, but occasionally black appears grey. Quitting and restarting Media Center fixes it (I have Media Center running full...

the RCA doesn't have a select button also there isn't a dedicated green button not I big deal I'll learn the RCAs green button as the green button.
it's weird I can't jump directly to a channel we have another RCA controlling none WMC TV and it will jump directly to channel will also return to last...

The Harmony should work if you have the MCE IR Receiver for it to aim at. The IR Blaster takes your remote signal and transmits it via wired sensors to the cable box so it can change channels.

Thanks for the feedback.

Hauppauge got back to me.....off to ordering.

Hello,

We’ve not tested with your specific motherboard but the WinTV-quadHD should be recognized as it is based on current PCIe technology whereas your HVR-1850 was last manufactured in 2009 and may not be recognized on...

They say they will continue to maintain the Harmony database and software.

And as we have seen with past products (WMC anyone ?), that it just a matter of time... The clock is ticking...

Glad I still use a Pronto Pro remote... And it looks just like Windows Media Center :)

Thanks for your reply - I did actually end up going for something similar to what you suggested, but it's going to take a while to ship to the UK:

I did see the Flirc USB receiver but was under the impression that it would need manual programming with all the buttons... unless it has a Use MCE...

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I have an aging Shuttle PC with an Athlon CPU and a BTG dual TV card, which won't record HD channels. The video o/p is something like 64MB lol,so looks really washed out on my new Smart TV. I'd like to build a new system with HD video and dual tuner capable HD with a case that has a small...

Interesting and potentially helpful. When I saw those movies were not playable I deleted them so out of luck there, but you do provide some other ideas going forward and I much appreciate. Clearly I need to make back ups more often. They say that RAID is not a substitute for backing up and this...

Wow, did not know that. Much appreciate your tip. Will look into that. Many thanks! Guess it's a good thing I have a RAID setup

WMC running on a Windows 7 box, with a USB eHome infrared receiver connected. WMC remote will not work unless I go into Device Manager and disable, then subsequently enable, the eHome Infrared Receiver (USBCIR)
This sounds similar to a long-standing problem that exists with certain WMC IR...

Just bought a Logitech Harmony Companion remote with the base. Took me three days to get it to work. Two big issues:
1) TV would power off between activities. The other activity is Apple TV. So when I switched from WMC TV to Apple TV, it would power off the TV. Had to use the PC based application...