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General Discussion / Re: TV Tuner Issues... new one to recommend?

« on: December 28, 2009, 06:18:57 PM »

I wish I could recommend some good TV tuners, but WinTV is the only brand TV Tuner I have ever used  but I actually like WinTV, the one I use works perfect for me. 

I guess, if I can find the tuner and the software, I can try the newer WinTV TV tuner I bought. I can always ask Staples to get it working for me.

How much memory is there on your computer? Also, have you left it on and used the tuner a lot? This can decrease the performance of especially consumer-level laptops greatly as they're not meant for heavy usage like what you have been doing with it.

The computer has 4 GB of ram, and about 250 GB with the HD. Yes, I use the computer a lot, and don't give it much downtime, but I don't leave the TV tuner plugged in. I only plug in the tuner when I intend to use it.

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The Game Room / Re: A game, put the wrong emoticon at the end of the sentence

« on: December 28, 2009, 05:51:32 PM »

I'm about ready to give up when it comes to getting a tuner for my laptop. I'm pretty much out of options now.

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General Discussion / Re: TV Tuner Issues... new one to recommend?

« on: December 28, 2009, 05:47:39 PM »

Anything WinTV (especially external) is good.

Pinnacles are


So try the WinTV HVR 950Q: http://hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hvr950q.html

Zach, WinTV is Hauppauge. I already have two tuners with both Hauppauge and WinTV marked on them, and I can't get either one to work.

Must be you or your computer then because WinTV works fine for me.

Well one of them, which I bought in 2007 right after I bought my desktop computer, does not work because it is only analog. The other one does not install properly, and it is too complicated.

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General Discussion / Re: TV Tuner Issues... new one to recommend?

« on: December 28, 2009, 05:44:14 PM »

Anything WinTV (especially external) is good.

Pinnacles are


So try the WinTV HVR 950Q: http://hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hvr950q.html

Zach, WinTV is Hauppauge. I already have two tuners with both Hauppauge and WinTV marked on them, and I can't get either one to work.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 28, 2009, 05:39:40 PM »

Yeah, the local inserts always override whatever programming is playing underneath them. Still, I find it odd that a Vehix commercial cut to the last couple frames of my local radar. I have never seen that happen before 

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General Discussion / TV Tuner Issues... new one to recommend?

« on: December 28, 2009, 05:32:12 PM »

I am having a boatload of issues with my laptop's HP TV tuner. It worked perfectly for me back in July, but even with a new one now and even a different hard drive than what I first had, the recordings always have a major issue with skipping, and they keep cutting out early. I want to look into getting a different one, but all that there seems to be out there is Hauppauge... and I can't ever get those to work.

Anyone know of a good TV tuner, that no matter where I buy it, I can return it for a full refund if it does not work? I'd appreciate it

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 28, 2009, 04:24:52 PM »

Whoa, a Comcast commercial cut into the 4:18 PM EST LF 

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The Game Room / Re: A game, put the wrong emoticon at the end of the sentence

« on: December 28, 2009, 03:11:36 PM »

I lived without my laptop for 3 weeks for nothing 

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Contributions / Re: Aaron's Intellistar Contributions

« on: December 28, 2009, 10:49:00 AM »

Please throw anything you want at us!!! I love your videos. Load us up with lots more

Oops let me fix that--- Done

As you wish, master

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 28, 2009, 07:29:41 AM »

Wow, I could not believe that, and I didn't know it happened until 5 minutes ago. 

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The Game Room / Re: "In my pants" Game

« on: December 27, 2009, 09:44:15 PM »

I actually managed to record a clip of the Marquette Intellistar with the classic narration skipping, and someone has posted clips of it from Des Moines, Iowa. And here I thought, my units were the only units with the issue (still most prominent on my end), imp.

My IS has that problem sometimes in my pants.

22840 and 22842 are by far the worst when it comes to skipping, imo, in my pants. Hence, the section there in my signature, in my pants.

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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Sightings

« on: December 27, 2009, 07:04:43 PM »

Emergency Sat LF with Trammell playing, IDK when it started, I just turned on TWC a minute ago.

EDIT: It's over now.

Same here, and it started again at 7:03 PM EST

EDIT: Ended for the commercial break at 7:06 PM EST

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The Game Room / Re: "In my pants" Game

« on: December 27, 2009, 06:58:08 PM »

I actually managed to record a clip of the Marquette Intellistar with the classic narration skipping, and someone has posted clips of it from Des Moines, Iowa. And here I thought, my units were the only units with the issue (still most prominent on my end), imp.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: December 27, 2009, 05:42:21 PM »

I know this is a bit off subject, but I need to post this where people would be likely to see it...

I have been pointing out some issues to Martin with uploading files to the site and redownloading some (since as some of you may know, I lost a few files a couple weeks ago (even though I got most of them back)). He tried fixing the uploading issue, but I am still having trouble. I tried it on another connection a little over a week ago, and still couldn't upload files. Here's how I would see it:

When I try to upload some files, it waits a few minutes, and then tells me "Internet Explorer cannot display this webpage". I tried it on all 3 computers we have in this house, and I even tried it on another connection, and still got the same issue.

Now as for the downloading.. whether it be for videos on the forums or the videos on the pages themselves, when I would download the files, I would not get much of the file, and it would appear corrupt. In case you are wondering, I was trying my Petoskey and E.L. LAT48's #5 submissions. If anyone could please try this, it would be much appreciated. I know Martin will go ahead and ask people to try it as well.

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The Game Room / Re: "In my pants" Game

« on: December 26, 2009, 08:25:19 PM »

I will never understand how we managed to eek out 7.9 inches of snow this month. Now I can't beg for as much sympathy, imp