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9890 TV tuner

post #1 of 6
10/18/05 at 2:56pm
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I am considering purchasing the Sager 9890 and was a little confused about the TV tuner options.

Option 1
"This TV tuner includes the Avermedia TV suite and a remote control."

Option 2
"This is an internal TV tuner with remote and External IR receiver designed for Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition 2005. While drivers can be provided for Microsoft Windows XP Home and professional, there is not currently software that will function properly. Ordering without MS Windows MCE 2005 is accepting that no Software will be provided for functionality
with this tuner."

Does this mean that the TV tuner hardware is actually different between the two options (not just that with one you get an IR extender and the remote for the XP media center edition)?

If I get the option 2, but then at a later date instal a non media center edition of XP (pro, etc) does this mean that I have no way of using the TV tuner?

If the hardware is different, what are the differences (video in and out options the same? S-video?)?
I can not find on any spec sheets what the actual hardware cards are. Can anyone give me a company and model name for the hardware?

Thanks in advance for the assistance!
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post #2 of 6
10/18/05 at 3:28pm
Sorry I can't offer much about the 9890 as I have the 9880. However, I believe the two have the same tuners. If I'm not mistaken, mine has the YUAN PVR MiniPCI MPC622-MCE, and I opted for MCE2005, etc.

I highly doubt there would be any problem getting it to work with XP Pro. From what I've read about MCE2005 vs. Pro, there's a bit of ambiguity between the two however from what I've gathered, MCE2005 was built on the Pro platform (perhaps an extension of it?)

I know that Pro allows to to join/unjoin a domain at any time whereas MCE2005 only allows u to join a domain during the install of the OS (which is what I did, re-did the OS and joined a domain during the install of MCE2005.)

I'm just hoping that Microsoft comes out with a 64bit version of Media Center as I opted for the 64 bit processor which is laying somewhat dormant so to speak. ;-)
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post #3 of 6
10/18/05 at 5:18pm

difference between MCE and Aver TV tuners

Those are two different tuners. Aver one comes with its own software so you do not need MCE to run it - it is probably not compatible with MCE anyways.

MCE tuner is compatible with MCE, has hardware MPEG encoder - which is good - but it does not come with any software except drivers. So if you want to use it with XP Pro you have to purchase software separately e.g. Beyond TV - I do not remeber its price but it is around 50-60$. I think MCE tuner has better picture quality - but it is my opinion.
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post #4 of 6
10/18/05 at 9:43pm
Beyond TV works with it? That is a great program.
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post #5 of 6
10/19/05 at 3:23am

Beyond TV works with MCE TV tuner

Yes it does 100%. I amusing it on 9880 with Win XP Pro SP 2 all the time
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post #6 of 6
10/19/05 at 8:51am
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Thanks

Thanks for the info guys!

Now that I know if I upgrade my system later to non-MCE I can still get the tuner to work, I think I will go with the MCE edition and its tuner.
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