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[Tom Caswell <derpimpkar AT yahoo.com>]

I'd guess that's the reason too.  WMC tries hard to look like a set-top box 
so it all has to work together really smoothly.  It's not a big issue if 
you're good at building computers but that's still a small percent of the 
population.  You may not need to buy a whole computer to get the WMC software 
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http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Skusearch.hmx?scriteria=AA30890
 
You could call and ask if buying a TV tuner card qualified as "hardware".  I 
bought a computer for it because I was in need of enough hardware for it to 
justify buying a new computer.  I also wanted to play games on the widescreen 
TV but don't tell my wife.
 
WMC can support two analog tuners and an HDTV tuner for a total of three.  I 
think it may be able to support one more HDTV tuner.  Haupaugge makes a card 
with two analog tuners and ATI makes an HD tuner.
 
You should be able to pipe the signal into an MPEG capture card and record 
the show.  You're right you would lose the HD quality and you would have to 
watch the whole show in realtime to record it.  I never liked that about the 
Tivo series 1 Save-to-VCR feature.  If you want to archive a series you have 
to be dilligent about encoding it at the same time.

Tom

Original Message:
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From: John Broome <jbroome AT gmail.com>
To: marcia AT nc.rr.com; Internetworkers: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/ <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:34:15 PM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] TW DVR to PC/DVD


On 1/3/06, marcia AT nc.rr.com <marcia AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
> So, in order to get the WMC, I need a new computer? "Windows XP Media
> Center Edition 2005 is only available pre-installed on computers sold by PC
> manufacturers...."
>
> I already have 5 computers at home! Why don't they sell the OS in a box?


That way they can make sure the hardware works with the MCE software.

I'm sure it reduces (slightly) their support issues.
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