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Set up a Comcast DTA with Media Center
April 17th, 2009
Many cable operators around the country are reclaiming analog space (separate from the over the air digital transition). If you have a cable set top box, nothing should change. If you connect coax out of the wall to an old analog set, you MAY need a Digital Terminal Adapter, DTA for short from your cable company. Most will make this available free of charge.
What you will need for optimum functionality and how to connect it:
1. Coax cable from wall to DTA RF IN
2. cable from DTA to existing Media Center tuner
3. Media Center Remote control
4. Either a built in eHome Receiver or external USB eHome receiver
5. IR two way blaster cable. The DTA adapter comes with a remote and an IR extender. Do NOT use the IR extender to plug into your eHome MCE receiver.
6. Carefully position the sticky adhesive on the LED on the end of the blaster cable over the receiver eye on the front of the DTA. Plug the other end into the port for you eHome IR receiver or the port on your USB eHome receiver.
7. The DTA has a switch on the back to set it to Ch3 or Ch4, for purposes of TV Setup on MCE this setting should not matter.
Now you are ready to re-run TV Setup. Open Media Center, Navigate to Tasks/Settings and then run TV Setup again. This article was prepared using Windows 7, but the steps are nearly identical for older versions of Windows/MCE.
Following is a screen by screen walk through using a Comcast DTA:
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Tags: ASUS Netbook, W7, MCE and Digital TV
April 14th, 2009
Started with a ASUS 1000HEB EeePC (Best Buy sells this, got it on sale for $299). Upgraded to 2 GB RAM, swapped out the hard drive for a 7200RPM 320GB Momentus drive and installed W7 clean. All the drivers were either inbox or on the ASUS site. Max Volar tuner driver was on WU.
They say a picture is worth 10,000 words. So I’m saving 20K words with two pictures.
Bottom line: My EeePC (1000HEB) is running W7, and plugging in my MaxVolar Hybrid USB tuner yields just what I expected. Awesome..
The screen on the Netbook is actually quite good. Not sure what this will do to battery life 
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