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I have had 3 different Hauppauge Tuner Cards over the years. The card you
want will work just fine with WinXP. Yes, it has software that operates the
card on the CD that will work with both XP and MCE.
The problem I had was trying to build my own MCE system. The company I work
for is a Microsoft Partner so I was able to obtain MCE install CD's but
could never get Microsoft's software to utilize the Hauppauge card. I've
read many web sites and newsgroups and have read posts from people that have
said they got it to work, but I couldn't.
To my knowledge, there is no upgrade path to Win MCE. This is supposed to
be installed by OEM's only. The OS can't even be purchased at the retail
level.
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> >I don't know about that card but many of the Windows MCE apps I've seen
>>explicitly state they will not run on XP. You better email Hauppage
>>before buying.
>
> Umm.... I don't think you got the gist of my question.
>
> My questions was this.... right NOW Im running XP pro and I want a pvr
> card that will run under XP pro
>
> BUT..... I "may" upgrade to Win MCE at some point in time.... so if I
> get a Hauppauge card such as the 25mce....can i run it under XP Pro
> for now.... and still have option to use same card under MCE if I
> change to it?