Been Googling like crazy this afternoon to resolve this issue and I am desperately hoping that someone may have figured a work around on this one.
Just got a new comp with Media Center installed. Quite impressive with its slide show, music player etc. Everything centralised and quite neat. Trying to configure the Live TV has turned out to be a dog. There seems to be a Non IR-DA and IR-DA compatibilty issue. The MCE blaster just refuses to work with the NTL Samsung blaster.
What i am left with now is a coaxial from the STB to the Hauppage input giving me a picture of dubious quality and if I want to change channel then I have trot downstairs and manually change the TV channel, which isn't really what i wanted. As regards analogue, I live in an area with pretty poor reception anyway and NTL is the only TV input piped into this house so short of forking out for an external\indoor aerial with Db gain, I am pretty much stuffed. Below are a few links to where I have been this day.
http://www.redremote.co.uk/mce.html
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/arc...hp?t-3929.html
http://www.avforums.com/forums/archi.../t-206376.html
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=473443
http://www.salloway.org.uk/MediaCenter/2004/harmony.htm
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...php?p=34136000
Thanx for reading