Vista - Philips TV Tuner Card.

Hi, i have a Philips Tuner card and MCE doesn´t recognize my TV Tuner device.
I´ve already succesfully installed the drivers in Device Manager but still
cant watch TV. Can anyone help me?

Which Phillips Tuner card do you have since not all of them are Media Center
compatible and come with optional Media Center drivers required for analog
tuner cards?

"Gustavo Carvalho" <Gustavo Carvalho@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:91FB6D53-EDD7-4C40-9424-C324A7E5E45E@microsoft.com...
> Hi, i have a Philips Tuner card and MCE doesn´t recognize my TV Tuner
> device.
> I´ve already succesfully installed the drivers in Device Manager but still
> cant watch TV. Can anyone help me?

Mine is the EZ-TV TVP3XP (NTSC). It comes with FM Tuner as well.
Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you!

"JW" wrote:

> Which Phillips Tuner card do you have since not all of them are Media Center
> compatible and come with optional Media Center drivers required for analog
> tuner cards?
>
> "Gustavo Carvalho" <Gustavo Carvalho@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:91FB6D53-EDD7-4C40-9424-C324A7E5E45E@microsoft.com...
> > Hi, i have a Philips Tuner card and MCE doesn´t recognize my TV Tuner
> > device.
> > I´ve already succesfully installed the drivers in Device Manager but still
> > cant watch TV. Can anyone help me?
>
>
>

Oh, and i´m sorry, this is my tuner card (its not philips... it HAS an
philips chipset). Its an ECS tuner card.

Here´s a link to a review:

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...-tv/index.html

Cheers!

"Gustavo Carvalho" wrote:

> Mine is the EZ-TV TVP3XP (NTSC). It comes with FM Tuner as well.
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thank you!
>
> "JW" wrote:
>
> > Which Phillips Tuner card do you have since not all of them are Media Center
> > compatible and come with optional Media Center drivers required for analog
> > tuner cards?
> >
> > "Gustavo Carvalho" <Gustavo Carvalho@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > message news:91FB6D53-EDD7-4C40-9424-C324A7E5E45E@microsoft.com...
> > > Hi, i have a Philips Tuner card and MCE doesn´t recognize my TV Tuner
> > > device.
> > > I´ve already succesfully installed the drivers in Device Manager but still
> > > cant watch TV. Can anyone help me?
> >
> >
> >

The link you provided has absolutly no information to imply that it ihas an
onboard encoder chip and is supported by Media Center with separate MCE 2005
drivers.in fact it lists XP as the supported OS and not MCE 2005.
You can probably run it with its own XP software application if you install
that useing XP compatibility mode kist oin Vista without trying to use MC.
"Gustavo Carvalho" <GustavoCarvalho@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:C4615C7D-ECCD-4822-AC37-8A534B2B7CAE@microsoft.com...
> Oh, and i´m sorry, this is my tuner card (its not philips... it HAS an
> philips chipset). Its an ECS tuner card.
>
> Here´s a link to a review:
>
> http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...-tv/index.html
>
> Cheers!
>
> "Gustavo Carvalho" wrote:
>
>> Mine is the EZ-TV TVP3XP (NTSC). It comes with FM Tuner as well.
>> Any help will be appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> "JW" wrote:
>>
>> > Which Phillips Tuner card do you have since not all of them are Media
>> > Center
>> > compatible and come with optional Media Center drivers required for
>> > analog
>> > tuner cards?
>> >
>> > "Gustavo Carvalho" <Gustavo Carvalho@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>> > in
>> > message news:91FB6D53-EDD7-4C40-9424-C324A7E5E45E@microsoft.com...
>> > > Hi, i have a Philips Tuner card and MCE doesn´t recognize my TV Tuner
>> > > device.
>> > > I´ve already succesfully installed the drivers in Device Manager but
>> > > still
>> > > cant watch TV. Can anyone help me?
>> >
>> >
>> >

It doesn't have a hardware mpeg encoder so it cannot work with MCE. Try 3rd
party software like GB-PVR , Dscaler, etc.

"Gustavo Carvalho" <GustavoCarvalho@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:8412BEA9-A60D-4C4C-9722-D497EBD83356@microsoft.com...
> Mine is the EZ-TV TVP3XP (NTSC). It comes with FM Tuner as well.
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thank you!
>
> "JW" wrote: