Comments on: One CableCARD problem down, one to go

By: Ben Drawbaugh

Ben Drawbaugh — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:24:55 +0000

I have heard of that problem before, but thought a recent Windows Update patch resolved it. I know there is plenty of discussion about it on The Green Button. Personally that is one problem I never had.

By: Warren

Warren — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:50:02 +0000

I’m about ready to give up on VMC. Spent way to many hours trying to debug it. Not getting much help from the MFG.
My biggest issue is to get ATI cablecard tuner to switch to the second tuner when recording on tuner one. Any ideas?

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:54:59 +0000

Glad you fixed the black screen issue. I’m seeing this with my 32″ LCD and XPS 420 although I have it connected via DVI and have the monitor to turn off. Not sure what’s going on.

By: Ben Drawbaugh

Ben Drawbaugh — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:19:09 +0000

At this point I’m convinced it’s a bad tuner and just bad luck. It is impossible for any hardware manufacturer to have a 100% success rate so I don’t blame ATI one bit.

I expect the replacement next, week so stay tuned.

By: Al

Al — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:41:48 +0000

I’m with Chris on this. I appreciate your efforts, and your postings. My fingers are crossed that you’ll succeed, because if you do, I’ll be following your lead.

Good luck!

By: Ben Drawbaugh

Ben Drawbaugh — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:52:54 +0000

Thanks for the kind words and support, but since I’m over my 21 day return policy with Dell and have already paid $150 to TiVo to cancel one of my TiVos, going back now would be a costly proposition.

By: ChrisW

ChrisW — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:49:36 +0000

Not that I can add much to the discussion, I just wanted to say thanks for not just giving up and heading back to the Tivo. I’m looking forward to upgrading my media center to vista and I’ll either use cable cards, or DirectTv’s solution. So thanks for sticking through it, so we don’t have to.

p.s. Hopefully a replacement ati tuner will fix it…