{"id":21,"date":"2007-01-18T18:30:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T00:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=35"},"modified":"2007-01-18T18:30:15","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T00:30:15","slug":"vista-hdtv-tivo-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Vista + HDTV = Tivo Killer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">After my rocky start with the Vista deployment (See my two stories: <a href=\"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=27\" target=\"_blank\">Vista \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Fresh Install<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=26\" target=\"_blank\">Vista \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Upgrade: Not so much<\/a>) I am now moving on to my most ambitious Vista tweaking yet \u00e2\u20ac\u0153insert dramatic music here\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Vista as a Media Center.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image34\" style=\"width: 417px; height: 358px\" height=\"358\" alt=\"Artec T14A\" src=\"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/img010.jpg\" width=\"417\" \/><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\" \/><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">To that end I have picked up the Artec T14A USB2 ATSC receiver. Thus far it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a trying install but that has been due to tracking down the right Vista Drivers. After talking with the right folks in support I now have the critical driver \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Level 2.0.0.17 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.degen.net\/downloads\/V2.0.0.17.zip\">linked here if you need it<\/a>.)\u00c2\u00a0 Once this was installed my TV tuner came to life.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"> <\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\" \/><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\" \/><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\" \/><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image33\" style=\"width: 494px; height: 375px\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Artec T14A Antenna\" src=\"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/img009.jpg\" width=\"494\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Not only\u00c2\u00a0does the Artec\u00c2\u00a0T14A feature a small Dongle for the actual USB device; it&#8217;s also features a compact \/ travel friendly Antenna. Despite its size and flexible construction performance of this antenna seamed very good on the CES trade show floor.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\" \/><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Next up is the bevy of test on the product, but stay tuned, this could just prove to be the long awaited media center to put an end to the loving caresses I reserve only for my Tivo, oh and my family too I suppose.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my rocky start with the Vista deployment (See my two stories: Vista \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Fresh Install &#038; Vista \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Upgrade: Not so much) I am now moving on to my most ambitious Vista tweaking yet \u00e2\u20ac\u0153insert dramatic music here\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Vista as a Media Center. To that end I have picked up the Artec [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}