BT are a thieving mega-corporation

I live in the country and therefore my broadband supplier options and connection speed are limited. Living some way off from the nearest exchange, unfortunately fibre optics / cable wont reach my house for another few decades. Having naively signed up for the BT autumn deal some time ago (migrating from Orange to save money), I ended up getting mugged on what I ended up paying after the promotion had ended. Having a few grown up kids in the house, they download movies and films, so when the £9.99 a month deal had run it's course, I started paying £60+ on my phone bills. So, I reluctantly went for the BT unlimited deal and manged to get my bill down to £42 a month (considerably more than Orange). If that wasn't bad enough, the speed was painfully tortoise slow (from experience, Broadband is surprisingly miles faster in many parts of the emerging world) Adding insult to injury, the connection then kept failing. So, I rang the expensive so called BT helpline, (that obviously BT profit from) and got pushed from pillar to post before I was told that if I wanted an engineer to come out and investigate that could be arranged, but it might cost me a few hundred quid if they could pin the plame on me in any way. Bless them. Anyway, enough was enough and I binned BT off for Sky. I now pay at least half the monthly cost and the connection and upload / download speed is heaps better. On leaving BT, of course they tell you that you owe them money for not seeing out your massively expensive contract through and they mugged me for another £150ish quid. It was in the small print I never read I guess. Of course you have to pay it as they have you over a barrel in supplying the land line. Thankfully I will still save twice that on the new deal with Sky over the course of a year. When you ring up to find out how much you owe BT, of course they try and keep you on the line (that you are paying for) to tell you that might now try and do a deal. I think it's disgusting that they hoodwink you into deals, rob you blind after the promo period and put in a sneaky severance charge for what has been a truly appalling service. To put it into context I was paying £500 a year for a very slow broadband connection that kept failing. They have a monopoly on supplying telecomms services and basically seem to get away with daylight robbery. I HATE BT with a vengence and rant about them to my family, friends and colleagues. Sky wasn't an option when I signed up for BT, but thank goodness they can now supply my area.

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Edge and Next are good for the corporations but are they good for the consumer?

Ok so I have never paid full price upfront for a phone! Ever since my first phone from VoiceStream I have opted for what ever phone was "free" because way back then (I blush as I type) I actually thought the phone was "free!!!" Ah, to be naive again!! But as we all know the phones never were nor will they ever be free.
However I say programs like Verizon's Edge and AT&T's Next are good for the corporation if they weren't they would not exist. The first reason I say this is because Edge and Next allow the cellular service provider to easily recoup the entire cost of the phone in a clear way unlike with subsidized phones that muddy the profit water. For example, the Verizon 64GB iPhone 5s retails for $849.99, currently with a two year contract you pay $399.99 for that 64GB iPhone 5s. The EFT for that phone is $350 (minus $10 per month of post paid service). If you on the 15th the day after you got your phone you paid the EFT but kept service you only paid $749.99 for that $849.99. Sure you still pay for service but you can leave when ever and Verizon cannot say hey you owe us $100 more for you phone. Its yours and they can't take it back and the only way Verizon will get that $100 back is though another customer that subsidized a much lower cost phone that at the completion of that contract Verizon will more than recoup the cost of that lower priced unit. To top that off you could turn around and sell the phone for $800 go back to Verizon or another provider buy a $450 phone and break even. I'm not suggesting that people do that or that it may prove to be a big hassle for some that went through all the trouble. Its just a point to show that subsidized phones make the profits less clear for the service provider to see at first glance.
Second reason these programs are good for the corporation is they allow the service providers to get a better grasp on the true cost of maintaining their networks and providing us the consumer access to their networks. Third reason it good for the corporation is the people that feel the need to upgrade every six months to a year are required to pay at least 50% of the retail cost of the phone at the same time they must surrender that device in exchange for the new device. So the service provider then has the phone refurbished certified to be in "like new condition" and sell it again potentially making more than retail cost when the profits of both sales of the same handset are factored together.
That being said what will the impact of programs like Edge and Next have on cost of future cellular service plans and smartphones? Over time will the service provider give us the best per line access fee (not likely but maybe)? Or will people upgrading their smartphones at faster intervals cause the cost of the smartphones to drop over time? What are your thoughts?

Go to the link I provided and click on "Check upgrade eligibility"

The KJS processes are using 200 megs(i.e. 93% of the total available) virtual swap memory. Any input/suggestions that you have will be most appreciated. Thank You.

The first thing I would say is that if you only have a little bit over 200megs memory on your machine, you probably don't have enough memory. (Except as maybe a development server.)
That said, if you want to reduce the amount of memory used by the KJS processes, you could decrease the JVM heap size.

Ever time i save a file in jpg it saves the file that was 4 to 5 meg to 720 kb

i
am a photo stock photographer when i down load my files from my
camera they are between 4 to 5 meg in size
but when i bring up in photoshop to edit them after i save them
in jpg as format cus
tomer wishes they save in a 720kb or less file size i need thes files to be at least 4 meg in size so what am i doing wrong?

I am sorry, it is very difficult to understand exactly what you are asking.
When you download files from your camera to Photoshop they are large, several megs.
JPEG's coming directly from a camera for the most part have very little compression applied to them as so are much larger file size then an editing application would save them as.
Now if I am understanding correctly you are attempting to compress the images to 740 k or less per image.
When you choose the save the file, choose file>save as and choose jpg from the drop down and select OK.
You will get a box with jpeg options, it is from that box you can select in the image options section the amount of compression you want applied to the JPG the more compression the smaller the file size. keep in mind too much compression starts to produce jpeg artifacts and distortions so not too much compression.

Exports are ENTIRELY too large.

I've recorded a short (5 minute) demo, and have attempted to
"publish" it using the LOWEST settings possible. I've got all
compression turned on, BMPs at 8 bit, etc.
When I export the file, I STILL have 20 megs of video and
require 69kbps to view it. This is completely unacceptable. I could
have done better than this with full-motion video and the windows
media 9 codec in an AVI. The whole point of using Captivate was to
create training videos we could stream online.
I noticed that captivate's "backgrounds" of the slides were
being stored in BMPs, and that there was no method within captivate
for checking to see if two backgrounds were identical. I started
exporting the BMPs, converting them to JPGs, and then importing
them back into captivate, and setting them as the backgrounds.
After a lot of wasted effort, I saw that Captivate was converting
them BACK into BMPs.
NOW I'm exporting each BMP for each slide, converting it to
JPG, importing it into the library, setting it as an "object" in
the scene, then ordering it with "send to back" to emulate the
background. Also, I'm looking for duplicate slides to delete
duplicates.
Honestly, I'm finding that this would have been 100x easier
to have manually put together in Flash. Has anyone else run into
these problems, and found a way to actually use Captivate the way
they claim it can be used? 20 megs for 4:47 is ridiculous.
-Javin

> The BMP backgrounds are over 320 megs.
Sounds like these are not files that were captured by
Captivate, hence they
are uncompressed bitmaps.
> After compression, that means the BMP
> backgrounds are still 15 megs, assuming the audio/video
aren't compressed
> at
> all. I can compress the BMPs to about 5 megs by making
them JPGs.
If you imported these bitmaps, then - for your next project,
not this one
:-) - I'd suggest some quick tests to the effect of:-
1 - try loss-less compression on the bitmaps. RLE is pretty
good. But most
likely if this makes no sense to you then you may not have
the tools to try
this ... :-/
2 - Try saving your bitmaps as PNG instead of BMP. By
default, no
compression of any sort is applied to bitmaps, but PNG should
be able to
save as a similar size to an RLE-compressed bitmap.
3 - And try Gif format files too.
Lastly - should have asked this first - what exactly are your
bitmaps? If
they are fairly flat colours - like screen grabs, where there
are large
elements of the same colour - then the above should be
effective. If, on the
other hand, they are photographic images - people, trees,
flowers where
there is a lot of colour and detail - then maybe the above
won't help.
Steve
Adobe Community Expert: eLearning, Mobile and Devices
European eLearning Summit - EeLS
Adobe-sponsored eLearning conference.
http://www.elearningsummit.eu

3G - 20 Meg download limit

I've got a stack of prepaid credit on my ISP's 3G ipad account, and would like to use it up.
I've got a number of apps I would like to update that are over 100 Meg, but can not download them from my iPad because of the 20 Meg limit. Understandably apple have this 20 Meg limit on a mobile device - but I was wondering if there is anyway I could turn this off? Im on the road a lot and don't have access to a wireless network unless I'm in a library or somewhere like that which genously lets users download all they want via wireless.

This is a user-to-user forum. If you want Apple to hear your concerns, submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:
http://www.apple.com/feedback
The download limit has not increased the likelihood that I will jailbreak my iPad.

Trying to download small files, they're completing at only 50% data and are corrupt !

both Winrar and the Gog downloader are near 1 meg, firefox is posting the downloads as complete at 500kb, and my google Fu is failing me, anyone have a idea?

both Winrar and the Gog downloader are near 1 meg, firefox is posting the downloads as complete at 500kb, and my google Fu is failing me, anyone have a idea?

MSI Mega 180 Live Update ?????

Ok so i finaly got the system running, but want to do all of the updates. I'm a little lost... It say's it has Live Update 3. There are a few quirks with it, and i think doing the Bios update would help. If any one could help, I would appreciate it.

Alright, No I am not Overclocked.
Ok Stu... It only goes to show what late night binge computer building can do to you. I must stop trying to build too many systems at once. (and falling asleep at the keys ) My humble appoligy. You are right, the Mega 180 has an Athalon 3200... I was also building an ICE Cube, with an Athalon 64 3800 ( I got dyslexic. Add one subtract another... add some caffeen, and some lack of sleep) Thank you though, I don't think I would have realized it. Still having that error though. I can't find any info on it either. Any sugestions would help, I greatly appreciate it.

MEGA 651 CPU & PC temps?

Hey Guys,
I'm running a MEGA PC 651 celeron 2.6 gig 512 ram using on board sound and graphics.
I downloaded PC alert 4 the other day and my CPU temp is around 27 C and system temp around 23 .
What temps are you other MEGA 651 members getting?
system temp seems kinda low to me, i'm not complaining :P, just suspicious of the reporting of the program.. i'd expect higher temps considering its so cramped in there!

My friend got similar temp readings but a bit higher (2 degrees higher each), do not worry about it.

Text tool not working in CC Ai, Ps, and Il.

I am having a problem in all 3 of my adobe CC programs. Indesign and Illustrator have the exact same issue; I can draw a text box, but when I type, no text appears. In Photoshop, I can not draw the box. A window appears with the following;
The only changes to these programs I can think, is I updated Indesign yesterday and also downloaded Premier Pro. They were all working before I made this update. Whether this is the cause, or simply coincidence is unclear.
I have tried contact the Adobe Support and spoke to a "Snigdha". They were no help, demanding I pay my Adobe bill before they resolve the issue. My graduation night is in 5 days and I can't print, edit, or produce anymore examples of my work. This night is my chance to find a job, and is incredibly important to me. It has been 1 year of work, study, and money. If I can't get my programs working again, I'm quite frankly done for.
My bill is only 2 days late, and I can afford to pay it. But I refuse to pay for a product that will not work. That is a blatant violation of Consumer rights, when Adobe knows my programs are faulty. All I'm after is basic customer support, and all I have received is an incompetent "Snigdha" who refuses to help me until I pay up. This is so disgusting, I thought Adobe were a bit more friendly than this, but I suppose they are more interested in money than their customers like most mega corporations.
If anyone could point me to a tutorial, video, or anything that might help me resolve the text issue I would be eternally grateful, I need these programs ASAP.
Thankyou in advance.
UPDATE: The chat representative closed the conversation, without resolving my issue, answering my question, or even saying goodbye in any way. Disgusting.

You have a "bad" font. It's as simple as that. Weed out any unnecessary fonts from your system and only add them back when needed.
Mylenium

Spam getting past email server

Why has my email server started letting so much spam get through? What can I do to stop it? Thanks.

Your question is too vague.
First off you need to realize you will not stop all spam. Mega-corporations have spent billions trying to 'fix' spam, so don't think you're going to solve the issue yourself.
On that basis, the best you can hope for is reducing spam to a manageable level - at least as far as your users' mailboxes are concerned. However, you don't state how much spam you're getting... are you getting 1? 10? 100? 10,000 spam messages an hour? so it's impossible to tell whether you're in the realm of normal behaviour or not.
You also don't state whether the spam is directed at your domain, or specific user mailboxes?
Are some users getting more spam than others?
Is the spam actually getting to users' mailboxes or is it getting blocked before it gets that far?
Also, you state your server has 'started letting so much spam through', so the most pertinent question is what have you changed - these things don't radically change on their own so the chances are something's changed on your server that's having an effect.
So, more data please.

Can anyone from Adobe comment? BDMV playback on BD-R(E) being stopped making Encore useless

I have read on a number of forums now that Sony are forcing BD set top manufacturers to disable playback of any BD-R or BD-RE discs with BDMV structure to stop piracy
this means that Encore CS3 Blu-ray export will be useless (the only reason some of us bought it!), as is other Blu-ray authoring software (I also own DVDit Pro HD).
Does anyone from Adobe have any comments about this?
apparently a newly launched Pioneer player had the function removed at the last moment, as did a new Sony player and the PS3 is expected to lose the abilty to play them in an upcoming firmware release

More interesting stuff I dug up on Blu-ray:
"Since playback of non encrypted BDMV discs is outside the Blu-ray specs, it remains to be seen whether Sony and Co. will undo that loophole by coming up with yet another Blu-ray profile that prohibits playback of unprotected BDMV discs, or if Fox and Co. revamped the BD+ spec to only allow decryption if the underlying disc has AACS encryption. Either way, at this point I wouldn't bet much money on this workaround being permanent, so you should heed Slysoft's advice about buying HD media and buy HD DVD over Blu-ray - it is the more consumer friendly format (not to be confused with a consumer friendly format) and the risk you incur of not being able to exercise your fair use rights in the future are greatly reduces if Blu-ray becomes the prevailing format."
If I read between the lines here, are they saying that non-encrypted BDMV discs will NOT play on Blu-ray players? If so, then that means all home-authored and non-mega-corporation-authored BDMV discs.
Anyone with some industry connections care to sort this out a bit?

Dear Creative...FORGET all these losers who complain h

Dear Creative,?My advice is to just continue to ignore them. After all, they've already spent their money and it's in your bank, so why waste time and resources on them...when there's a whole new crop of customers out there to be harvested. It's just simple common sense. These losers who complain about spending a few hundred dollars for a piece of equipment that won't work are entirely missing the point, that Creative is a massi've company involved in many things and cannot be bothered by trivialities and customer pettiness. Can you imagine?General Motors?being bothered by a puny few hundred-thousand people whose GM cars won't work on the latest Exxon gasoline?Preposterous to imagine ANY mega-corporation like Creative squandering precious resources on such minutiae?as customers and their satisfaction. In short, I see that you are entirely correct to ignore these people and release no further driver updates or even an announcement to that effect. It's obvious that your time is far better spent pursuing the next generation of hardware that may actually WORK with Vista and just let the whole thing blow over in time. A new generation of customers - who'll be oblivious to all this - awaits. After all, every single one of these complainers - these "old" customers - will be dead in a hundred years...and who'll remember all this or be the wiser for it's?Best of luck, Creative. You're one HELL of a mega-corporation.

Flame war invitation?declined go and start some trouble on another forumWilder.
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HOW CAN VERIZON EXPECT TO SELL 4G PHONES WHEN THEY ONLY RELEASED ONE SO FAR?

I don't get it but why is Verizon even selling 4g service when they only have released one 4g phone...the HTC Thunderbolt so far? I think they jumped the gun on wanting to be a provider but not having the goods to do so.

what happens when you change the subject line in an existing thread - let's see Answer: It does not change the subject of the original post (thread). Too bad, i hate all caps posts - other than vision issues - which happened once when I asked why , and should be addressed on the client screen using the accessibility options available on most system. I just find it plain rude to post that way. So if you don't have problems seeing, be polite! If you want to yell at a Verizon employee, do it privately. IMHO, This here is not a place for disgruntled customers - it's for customers who want to help each other with genuine technical and Verizon policy issues. These issues are best addressed in a constructive, civil manner. The final redress for any individual vs. a mega-corporation is a,. not doing biz with them, b. filing a complaint with the relevant federal, state or local regulatory agency. And of course, via the press or an independent website.
Now, onto the question, there's no reason to push the limts of technology on a device with a tiny screen and limited silicon horsepower. Watching HD video on a 3" screen with earbuds, is not my idea of a good time. And how fast to I need to download two minute mp3's. For on-the-go business people, fast mobile , wireless connectivity is a great tool. Wi-fi is not a true mobile technology - it's wireless in your living room. At least I ranted in lower case. albeit a long-winded rant.

MSI TV@nywhere MASTER PCI TV Tuner card FAQ

So you’ve just decided to add a MSI TV@nywhere Master card to your PC, you’re gonna need some help installing it then!! Before you continue, I recommend you download the Unofficial New Drivers in the other sticky, to avoid any heart (and brain!) ache.
For best results also, you should be running at least DirectX 8.1. This is included on the driver CD, or you can download the latest version from Microsoft's DirectX Page. If you have a P4 which supports Hyperthreading, you will also need at least Windows XP SP2, otherwise you will have to disable hyperthreading in BIOS.
You should also be in the habit of having the latest drivers for your video card, audio card and motherboard chipset; this can also avoid any future TV software failure. And make sure you regularly run Windows Update (or use the Automatic Update feature) to keep your Windows clean and up-to-date. And also remember when installing new drivers or software, if the installer suggests you restart the computer then do so, before you install anything else! Drivers not installing correctly are common causes of problems, especially with this card!
INSTALLING THE HARDWARE
I’m presuming you’re familiar with the concepts of building and upgrading PCs, so I won’t go into too much detail on obvious stuff (like “remove the side panel of your case, locate a free PCI slot…”).
Fit the TV@nywhere Master card into a free PCI slot. If you didn’t get one with it, you’ll need a CD-audio lead from somewhere (the thin grey lead). If you have one connected between your CD drive and your soundcard CD-Audio In connector, then use that, any version of Windows after 98 supports digital audio extraction, so it is not needed there now. Connect one end of the audio lead to the 4 pin header on the TV@nywhere card and the other to the AUX input on your soundcard (or motherboard if using onboard). If you are installing the Mega TV Tuner in a Mega series barebones, connect it to the TV audio input on the mainboard to the rear. Don’t worry about using the 3.5mm jack plug lead to connect tv card audio, we don’t need it now, doing it this way.
CONNECTING YOUR TV SIGNAL
Depending on your global location, this may vary. Either way you need to connect either a aerial (ANTENNA) or cable (CABLE) to the CATV connector on the card. Someone will no doubt clarify this for me, but cable is for US-type cable, which doesn’t need a decoder box. Most people will be using the Antenna I’m guessing. Your choice of CABLE or ANTENNA needs to be remembered, you’ll need this later.
You will not be able (or have limited success) in connecting a video recorder or set-top box to the CATV connector. Instead you will need to use the Composite or S-Video connector, and connect the audio source either directly to the soundcard or to the Line-in on the TV card.
INSTALLING THE DRIVER
Don’t use the driver on the CD. Download the latest driver from the MSI download page. If you are a Mega series user, make sure that Windows has been installed onto the C: drive. If not you’ll have to reinstall, and disable the USB controller in BIOS to prevent the card readers becoming the C: and D: drives. This also causes problems later.
I would advise temporarily disabling any anti-virus programs at this point, to avoid any complications.
When you start up after first installing the card, cancel any Found New Hardware wizards that appear. OK, so extract the contents of the downloaded ZIP, and run the PVSSetup.exe file to install the drivers. Once this is complete, RESTART your PC and the drivers will be installed for the new hardware found.
Check in Device Manager, there should be four new hardware listed under Sound, Video and Game Controllers related to MS8606. If you see any with the (?) next to them, you might need to try the card in another slot.
INSTALLING THE MSIPVS TV SOFTWARE
If you wish to use other TV recording software other than MSIPVS then please feel free to do so.
MSI do not make their own software. At least not all the time. MSIPVS is a rebranded version of Intervideo’s WinDVR software, with extra features added such as network streaming for TV@nywhere. Some people love it. Lots of people hate it. Generally most people who have posted here hate it. People who love it tend not to post if they don't have problems. The people that hate it generally mess initial settings up, which can cause problems when they try to change it. The more patient of us will always get it eventually right!
Install the MSIPVS software. Easy as that. Its setting it up correctly that’s the tricky part. Listed below are the main things to look for when performing initial setup. If you are unsure about anything else then read the manual! Only a complete genius would dare install any unfamiliar hardware without having the manual handy for reference - how do you suppose I learnt anything?
Device
Video Input:
"Device" is always the Conexant Cx2388x Video Capture"
"Source" - select TV if you are connecting your signal to the CATV connector (antenna or cable), select S-Video or Composite if using these instead
"Standard" - set this to your local TV standard, eg if in UK set to "PAL-I". if unsure, do a Google search and find out!!
If you don't set these correctly you won't receive any channels and/or they will appear incorrectly.
Audio Input:
"Device" will be your soundcard or onboard audio device
"Source" will be the connector your TV card audio output is connected to, this will be "TV" on Mega series, otherwise check!! If you connected the internal lead to AUX on your soundcard or mobo, then set it to "AUX". If you used external lead to connect to Line-In, this will be "Line-in" etc etc.
If you don't set these correctly you may or may not hear audio while watching live TV, and you will hear no audio on recorded TV.
TV
Tuner:
"Input" will be Antenna if you have an aerial connected, or Cable if you are connected to unencoded cable TV.
"Country or Region" - if need to explain this one then maybe you shouldn't have this card!
Channel
Now we will see if your settings and TV signal are good! Tick the Freescan box, and then click on Autoscan. This may take a while, and for a short time it may appear that the program is doing nothing. Patience! It will soon start, and then pick up any available channels it can find.
Make sure you have a good strong signal if you are using an aerial, otherwise TV@nywhere won’t pick up as many channels. UK viewers – just using a simple set-top aerial and signal booster, I could even receive Channel Five (or “five” as it is known now!)
So at this point now, if all has gone well, you should be able to watch and record TV on your PC! If it hasn't...

"I've lost my CDs and MSIPVS needs a serial number to install!"
MSI in their wisdom printed the serial key for MSIPVS on the actual CD. This serial key is the same printed on EVERY CD. Which kind of defeats the object in my humble opinion. Anyways, the answer can be found in this post: MSIPVS requires serial number!
"When installing MSIPVS, the program hangs then shows a message saying "remote procedure call failed" "
If you are a Mega user, you have installed Windows onto a partition other than C:. You will need to reinstall Windows, making sure you disable USB controller in BIOS, so that the card readers do not take up C: and D: drives. Upon first restart (after Windows has created partition), you may re-enter BIOS and enable USB controller before Windows continues installing itself.
"MSIPVS installs, but when I start the application I get an error message "WinDVR has caused a problem and needs to shutdown" "
hpkuo credits this to sizzle in his hints and tips thread, but I'll elaborate a little. The problem is caused by QuickTime codecs installed by Nero 6.3.1.15. It is unclear whether later versions of Nero were fixed, but earlier versions should be okay. "A "quick fix" is to rename the files "NeQTADec.ax" and "NeQTVDec.ax" in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\"."
Another alternative suggestion is to uninstall the codecs from the registry. I found this solution in another forum for another TV card with same problem:
Go to Start > Run (or press Windows key + R) and enter:
regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeQTADec.ax"
regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeQTVDec.ax"
The only consequence seems to be that Nero Vision can’t decode Apple Quick time format after this (something I can live with)
If you do require QuickTime codecs to be installed, there is the Quicktime alternative available from here: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm . Or you could just use an earlier version of Nero.
PS if you are using a non-english setup of Windows, then the above paths will relate to how windows translates on your PC - ie subsitute Program Files etc for your local translation
"I have connected the external audio lead to the Line-In (blue) jack on my mobo, and set it correctly in MSIPVS, but I hear no TV sound"
If your mobo supports 5.1 speakers but only has three jacks on rear, the Line-in and Mic jacks have been configured to act as Rear Speaker and Center/Sub outputs. If you have only two speakers, they should be connected to the green Front Speaker jack. You will need to go into your audio hardware's configuration panel / Windows Audio Device Properties to correctly configure the rear jacks.
The other alternative is to use the internal audio connector - simply use a CD-audio lead to connect it to the AUX or CD internal connector on your mobo or soundcard. CD audio leads (the analog grey lead from your CD drive to the soundcard / mobo CD audio connector) are redundant now, as Windows now uses digital audio extraction through IDE channel. Make sure you set the audio signal correctly in MSIPVS to match this.
"When I start up Windows I can hear a hissing like "static" / the radio is playing"
One issue that was fixed in the latest Drivers; if that still doesn't work then the Radio volume is not muted at Windows startup. I'll let hschroed take over here:
"Both MSI Radio and MSI PVS, unmute the TV card at program start, and mute the TV card at SUCCESSFUL program exit (remember we are not talking about the soundcard mixer state here). What this means is as long as a single program start and a single SUCCESSFUL program exit takes place, the TV card tuner will be muted, regardless of what the soundcard mixer audio source states are. If the PC is rebooted (without a PC power-off), for whatever reason, while the MSI Radio or MSI PVS program is executing (a successful exit has not been performed), the TV card will remain in an unmuted state until the next startup and successful exit of either of the two programs.
The TV card mute/unmute status is carried over a reboot without PC power off. What this means is that after a PC power on, once the TV card has been properly muted by a start and successful exit of the MSI program, the TV card mute/unmute status should be in proper synchronization with the applications (regardless of the soundcard mixer status), as long as the PC is not powered off. (Romulus mentions computer coming out of standby. I did not test that scenario but I would expect that if going into standby means power is stopped to TV card, the effect would be similar to a PC power off)."
"My regular TV receives all 5 channels (even Channel Five!), but when I connect aerial to TV@nywhere I only get 3"
Common to all TV tuner hardware (not just MSI's!) is the need for a good strong signal. A moderate signal might appear okay on a regular domestic TV, but might not be strong enough for the TV tuner hardware. Consider investing in a good signal booster, or getting your aerial changed.
Consequently, I have also learned today that TOO strong a signal is bad for TV tuner cards, as soon as I know more I'll let you know...
"I have connected my VCR to the CATV connector, but it does not appear when autoscanning."
"I cannot receive any channels when I connect my Sky box to the RF (CATV) connector."
Thanks to a wonderful technology called "Macrovision" protection, many VCRs and satellite/cable boxes won't work in this way by connecting them using their RF output. Anyone who gets a result is very lucky. There's always the Composite and S-Video In connectors to try. But either way, the TV@nywhere card won't scan all their channels, you'll still have to change them manually.
"Windows XP Media Center says that my "tuner hardware is malfunctioning or not installed" but I have installed the latest TV@nywhere drivers from MSI"
Neither the Vox or the TV@nywhere cards are compatible with MCE2005. MCE2005 requires an analogue TV card capable of hardware MPEG2 encoding, or a software DVB-T (digital) card that already receives an MPEG2 video stream over-the-air.
You can however still use the Vox or the TV@nywhere using the MSIPVS software outside of the MCE2005 application.
"MSIPVS keeps defaulting my location back to Afghanistan, even though I set it to US / UK/ Sweden / Latvia / Kazahkstan"
You will need to reinstall the drivers and software due to a glitch. Uninstall MSIPVS and the tuner drivers (with its PVSSetup.exe setup program) then restart your PC, and ignore the Found New Hardware wizard. Install the tuner drivers with the PVSSetup.exe program, then restart your PC. Then install MSIPVS, restart your PC and you're good to go again!
"Where can I find these "Unofficial New Drivers" that people keep referring to here?"
The "Unofficial New (BETA) Drivers" became obsolete when MSI officially released them. You can find them on the Product Support page for this card, as they are now the latest drivers. MSI TV@nywhere Master product page
[Last edited 8th October 05 by Dr Stu]

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