Windows 7 - TV Scanning only for digital antenna

Asked By TonyF

31-Aug-09 12:17 AM

I have a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250 card and Vista Home Premium. When I go to
the TV option and setup channels in Media Center it scans, but gives Digital
Antenna as the source and I cannot figure out how to change it. I have coax
straight from the wall (no settop box) to the card. I downloaded the WinTV
software and it scanned and found the channels. Any suggestions on how I can
get media center to change so that it will look for analog signals?

31-Aug-09 03:55 AM

what is your TV source exactly? Coax out of the wall without a cable
set top box? when you run TV setup, what do you select as the
source?


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31-Aug-09 09:50 AM

Vista Home Premium MC does not support digital (clear QAM) cable.  Win 7 MC
does.
There are possibly some workarounds but I suggest that you use Hauppauge's
WinTV application until you upgrade to Win7.

26-Oct-09 09:28 PM

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Cable directly from the wall (no converter box). The problem is that I
do not get an option to select the tuner. Even if I do the manual
configuration. It simply starts scanning "digital antenna"

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Not sure I follow. I am looking for the analog signals. There would
not be any QAM signals located in this part of the spectrum. I had
this working fine on an XP machine with a different card. The problem
is that it is only looking for the digital antenna option and not
allowing me to tell it to search for any other signals.

01-Sep-09 04:45 AM

you need to run HWCLEAR, reboot and rerun TV signal setup. see
http://www.hauppage.com/site/support/support_hvr1250.html




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01-Sep-09 02:44 PM

I am having the exact same problem. I have Hauppauge HVR950Q and when I try
to set up tv signal, there is no prompt to choose a source, it ust
automatically selects Digital signal.

01-Sep-09 03:24 PM

Drew,
What OS are you running?
Do you have an antenna or cable connected to the card?
When you manually set up your tuner in MCI I assume that you are not trying
to have it set up automatically) for your zip code what signal source do you
select for the card?

01-Sep-09 03:34 PM

Im running Vista 64bit. I have coax cable connected. No, I am doing it
manually. I put in my zip and I dont get an optiont to choose any source. It
automatically goes to Digital

01-Sep-09 03:50 PM

Is the coax cable you have connected coming from an antenna or from a cable
company wall outlet?
Please also answer the other question I asked such as what OS you are
running ( It would also help to know what SP level of that OS you are
running?

02-Sep-09 04:16 PM

Barb,

Thanks for your help, that got it working.

02-Sep-09 05:58 PM

glad that worked for you.


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01-Oct-09 11:43 PM

I am having the same problem as above poster.  I have a Hauppauge 950Q and am
running a coax straight from the wall to the tuner.  I am trying to manually
setup in MCE and it only searches for digital antenna signals.  I am running
vista home premium 32 bit.

The WinTV software works fine for ATSC, QAM, and analog.

I also tried hooking up my friend's pinnacle tuner and MCE still only
searches for digital antenna signals.

02-Oct-09 05:09 AM

did you follow the instructions for Media Center at
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_hvr950q.html  ?
uninstalled WinTV? run hwclear.exe?



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02-Oct-09 09:00 AM

The 950 does not have a built in MPEG2 encoder so it does not have MCE
compatible drivers for analog tuner support.
Windows 7 Media Center will be the first release of Media Center to support
clearQAM as a standard capability.
Due to the above you currently only have Digital OTA via antenna support.