You assume wrong. You can enable it in the UK. The artwork for movies that are in currently in the TV Guide wont display, but when you look at a directors or actors collection of work you will get artwork for all the other movies. Apparently it also does this in the US.... just a bug that has never got fixed.

Of course for some reason the movie guide has never been officialy supported outside the US, but atleast the backdoor to enable has always been there ;) Incidentally the movie guide feature was even better back in MCE2005 as you could look up an actors bio as well, but for some unknow reason that feature vanished in Vista :(

Anyhow.... to enable the movie guide feature you need to change the following registry entry from UK to US, then reboot your machine.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Settings\MCE.GlobalSettings]
"systemGeoISO2"="US"

 

buellpilot:

You assume wrong. You can enable it in the UK. The artwork for movies that are in currently in the TV Guide wont display, but when you look at a directors or actors collection of work you will get artwork for all the other movies. Apparently it also does this in the US.... just a bug that has never got fixed.

Of course for some reason the movie guide has never been officialy supported outside the US, but atleast the backdoor to enable has always been there ;) Incidentally the movie guide feature was even better back in MCE2005 as you could look up an actors bio as well, but for some unknow reason that feature vanished in Vista :(

Anyhow.... to enable the movie guide feature you need to change the following registry entry from UK to US, then reboot your machine.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Settings\MCE.GlobalSettings]
"systemGeoISO2"="US"

Hi

This registry key worked on my UK machine however I don't get any DVD cover art images as mentioned above, the odd one did appear when looking in Cast Info. Which is a real shame as this is a nice little feature, would be so much better with all cover art showing is there no fix for this at all ???

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I found this thread a few weeks ago and thought I'd give it a try. Changed the registry key to UK, rebooted and it all worked just fine, along with the few odd bits of cover art not showing up.

In the past few days, I realised that it wasn't working and also noticed that I had a problem with the guide not downloading properly, it would only show upto the next few days. I don't know if the two issues can be connected. Eventually I had to manually delete the EPG folder and reset the guide data from scratch.

I've noticed that the registry key has been reset to GB so I changed it back to US, rebooted the PC and oddly enough the key had changed itself back to GB. I've done this a few times now with the same result.

Has anyone else noticed this and/or has a fix for it.

Many thanks in advance.

I didn't see this problem on my PC.

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I think now the two issues are not connected and were just co-incidental. The registry problem appears to be a UAC issue. If I run regedit with elevated (admin) rights then the change in the registry sticks. Presumably, in 'normal' mode despite my having admin rights to the PC, regedit doesn't have the proper write access to the registry key in question.

Deleting my EPG folder and rerunning the setup wizard seems to have fixed the guide issues too. It's properly updates itself for three days now so I guess I just had some corrupt data in the folder.

Fingers-crossed everything is working as it should now.

jem101:

I think now the two issues are not connected and were just co-incidental. The registry problem appears to be a UAC issue. If I run regedit with elevated (admin) rights then the change in the registry sticks. Presumably, in 'normal' mode despite my having admin rights to the PC, regedit doesn't have the proper write access to the registry key in question.

Deleting my EPG folder and rerunning the setup wizard seems to have fixed the guide issues too. It's properly updates itself for three days now so I guess I just had some corrupt data in the folder.

Fingers-crossed everything is working as it should now.

I don't recall running regedit with elevated permissions when I changed this registry key. My user account is also in the local admins group. The key seemed to stick ok for me!

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jem101:

I found this thread a few weeks ago and thought I'd give it a try. Changed the registry key to UK, rebooted and it all worked just fine, along with the few odd bits of cover art not showing up.

You also said the above, hardly any cover art showed up for me I just got the default blue covers.

Some times when looking at actors information etc a cover would appear but generally no covers showing, can you confirm any further ?

Cheers

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I seem to get most but not all the cover art after a fairly brief delay, of the order of five to ten seconds. Oddly enough it appears that I get cover art for movies which are not showing up in the guide for the next two weeks but any movie which is being broadcast soon just gives me the default blue background.

All very strange

It caused some bugs on my system too (maybe a fluke?) so I reverted back. Found I wasn't using it too much anyway.

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