MS Media Center Edition 2005

Is MSI TV@nywere Master compatible with MCE 2005?
Thanks

no i'm afraid it isn't
MCE2005 requires a tv card that can supply it with a direct MPEG2 stream. a hardware MPEG encoder card, such as Hauppage PVR series cards, will allow for analogue TV signals to be received, as well as connecting satellite and cable decoders via composite / s-video connections
however for best picture quality, a DVB-T card (such as Black Gold or Nova-T) works as the digital broadcast is already MPEG2 encoded, but only works with free-to-view (Freeview in UK) digital channels
please note this is not a limitation on MSI's part, rather it is due to Microsoft's new driver architecture, and design of MCE2005 software.
however the card will still work under Windows XP Media Center edition, but only with the supplied MSIPVS software.

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