BTW,

The TV Capture device is SAA713X with driver 1.3.3.2 according to Device Manager 
which I've googled but unclear with the responses as Philips' own site won't recognize 
but a lot of hits for Chris TV :-)








On Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 1:37 am, Gary wrote:

>Hi guys, 

>

>Just a long shot (but hey if you don't ask you don't get:-)

>

>I have a new pc running Vista Home premium (SPI plus all patches) & it came with 

>an inbuilt Philips TV tuner/card thing.. (at least the remote is ha) & running Windows 

>Media Centre to display the TV, so here's the thing every so often you fire up the 

>TV and it says there is no signal blah & you have to go through power down/up then 

>setup/scan to get them all back (EPG guide sees channels but when you click on them 

>nothing) 

>

>We have a perfect signal here & a power cycle/rescan always fixes but it's tedious 

>to do this but doesn't always happen so I can't figure out a usage pattern. I don't 

>know how to check for updates (Windows Media Centre) apart from the usual windows 

>update site which presumably checks your software anyhow.

>

>I'm convinced it's not hardware (though it could be a weird fault with the card 
I 

>guess) but some patch/driver blah but can't see one. 

>

>I'm just wondering if anyone else has seen this or some helpful words.

>

>Thanks in advance.

>

>Gary 

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