Problem with Media Centre TV

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Hello

I have Windows XP Media Centre Edition with a TV tuner.
I've set up the TV through Media Centre to take a signal
from the main arial. As far as I can tell (and I've
checked several times) all the right wires are in the
right places. The TV has only tuned three of the available
5 terrestrial channels, and only in black and white, and
without sound. I can't find any information about retuning
in any of the guides online, so I'm stumped.

The hardware was bought in the US but I live in the UK.
Could the hardware be incompatible with the UK signal, or
is there a way for me to tune the TV correctly? The signal
is not particularly strong in my area, but I've hooked it
up through a booster to no effect.

Thanks for your advice.

Mark
email: markjefferson_uk(remove this bit)@yahoo.co.uk

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.video (More info?)

You may be better posing this in the media centre newsgroup. I'd add more
info on the products you have as well. I'm not sure if hardware is region
specific on these items, but a ntsc signal tried to be played back on a
older pal tv often comes out in B/W. Then again, so does a composite signal
via a s-video cable. I wouldn't have thought either of these would make a
difference on a pc set up though.

--
Graham Hughes
MVP
www.simplydv.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
"Mark" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:122001c46f12$c954f860$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello
>
> I have Windows XP Media Centre Edition with a TV tuner.
> I've set up the TV through Media Centre to take a signal
> from the main arial. As far as I can tell (and I've
> checked several times) all the right wires are in the
> right places. The TV has only tuned three of the available
> 5 terrestrial channels, and only in black and white, and
> without sound. I can't find any information about retuning
> in any of the guides online, so I'm stumped.
>
> The hardware was bought in the US but I live in the UK.
> Could the hardware be incompatible with the UK signal, or
> is there a way for me to tune the TV correctly? The signal
> is not particularly strong in my area, but I've hooked it
> up through a booster to no effect.
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> Mark
> email: markjefferson_uk(remove this bit)@yahoo.co.uk