How to Prioritize Tuners in Vista MCE
May 2nd, 2008 by Kevin
I have been looking for a way to prioritize my tuners in Vista Media Center. Why do I want dictate which tuner is used as the default? Mainly to avoid digital rights management. I currently use the HDHomerun as a QAM tuner to receive unencrypted HD channels on my computer. This tuner allows me to record HD channels with digital rights management.
I ultimately want to get a digital cable tuner (I mean buy a new machine that supports DCTs). Ideally, I want to incorporate the HDHomerun into that system. Digital cable tuners incorporate copy protection into anything they record. The HDHomerun does not. I want the HDHomerun to be the default tuner.
Luckily, there is a small application that sets priorities for you: Media Center Tuner Priority. This app basically shows you a list of your tuners and you set which one should be used first.
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I have Dual ATI DCT’s and an HDHomerun on my Dell XPS 420. I don’t know that this will matter to much, unless there is something that I do not know.
Since the HDHomerun tunes in the QAM channels that the cable company sends unencrypted the channels show up in the 2000’s. So for example, the ABC HD feed for my local ABC station shows up on 235. So I have two tuners for channel 235. When I added the HDHomerun it did not give me 4 tuners for 235. Instead I now have 2 tuners on 235 and 2 tuners on 2235.
I have not found a way to reconcile that, so I just changed all of my series recordings over to my new channels in the 2000’s.