You asked the video and bnative resolution of my card.  The video card is :

Video graphics

ATI Radeon x300se
128 DDR memory
PCI-Express interface
I/O Ports: DVI
TV tuner card with FM tuner
2nd TV tuner card

TV is Toshiba 65H83 it has a choice of 540P and 1080i.  I use 1080i for my HD TV and HD DVD player.

Says Native Resolution is 540P / 1080i (720P input capable)
59.875 x 59.875 x 26 inches (W x H x D)
CrystalScan HDSC upconverts all video signals (including 480i/p) to 1080i HD

I am going to run for a few days with the starndard setup and make sure the channels don't increment.

After that I will add missing channels I might like to have in my guide. I will add them to my guide, but won't delete them, just uncheck them as you said. I did delete some channels previously, but did not recognize that was when the start of my channel incrementing occured.

After deleting the files and doing TV, guide and digital TV setup, I made copies of all the XML files. I should just be able to delete and copy over the fresh files from right after a setup if this happens again. At least I can test that. My XML files were down one directory further in a folder called prefs.

Bryan

Apparently there are other causes of channel incrementing.

I have been running since July 21st with the channels in the 1000 range after deleting the XML files and rerunning the guide and digital channel setup. Last night on the 30th while MCE was running the channels incremented to the 2000 range and added all the digital channels to the guide. I did not remove / delete a digital channel and the system did not come out of standby.

I don't know what triggered this to happen. I wish I could identify something but I have not done anything to the system since resetting the guide channels to the 1000 range on the 21st.

 

A link for "Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility" or "DECCHECK" is:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=de1491ac-0ab6-4990-943d-627e6ade9fcb&displaylang=en

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MCE 2005 Ru2 / MSI K8GM2-FID : GeForce 6150 : RealTek ALC880 / Athlon 64 3500+  / NVIDIA PureVideo / AverMedia M150 & A180

Since Rollup 2 is due out soon, I just added a warning that the guide might not be accurate once its out warning.

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Bryan Socha
Media Center MVP

Edited to update the rollup2 info and add the new dual a180 drivers available for multiple hd tuners.

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Bryan Socha
Media Center MVP

I have updated the guide to hdtv to start reflecting the known changes with rollup2.  I expect a lot of updates over the next couple weeks and at some point I will merge the 2 gudies together to a new guide.

I am also thinking to writing a new how to setup and use hdtv with media center guide more in book form that will go into more detail.  Any book publishers out there?  I've never written a book before but would love to write a media center book. 

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Bryan Socha
Media Center MVP

I'm going to start redoing the guide tommorrow to include a lot more about rollup2 (not much, dont get excited) as well as breaking it away from a q&a session to a more guide like. Also a lot of pieces I never finished and its about time I did including a detailed how to point your antenna section.

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Bryan Socha
Media Center MVP

What ever happened to your MCE book? I think its a great idea for MCE-Amatures.

I don't comb the forums like I used to so sorry for the long delay. I don't have the time to just make a book, however if someone wanted to publish a book like this, I would be interested in creating an outlne and discussing it. But I'm not actively looking for a publisher.

Also, I'm not keeping up with all the issues and fixes for various items. If anyone wants to take over the hd faq, be my guest. If anyone has any new information that I'm missing, please add a reply and post it, I will eventually get it into the first post. Good examples is announced cablecard in vista and 64 vs 128bit 5200 video cards and studder.

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Bryan Socha
Media Center MVP

Hello, you can check this site: http://www.cableboxfilters.com
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Best regards.

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Best regards.

I've created an updated Kram Drivers install routine for the HDTV Wonder on MCE, which includes a download link to the Kram drivers, at http://www.hdtvtunerinfo.com/krammcehdtv1.html  I've tested the process several times and it's works great for me.  Would appreciate feedback, if anyone cares to try it, either here or on the site WEB form.

You can also check this site for the best HDTV cable filters offered in the net: http://www.hdfilters.com
I bought two filters and started enjoying crystal clear cable channels in our area. Hope this may help your problem too.

Youngblood

FYI to those reading, the guys with the filters are the same person.  I see no reason to use a filter like this and their claims are false.  a notch filter will not increase quality.  Consider it spam.  I just haven't deleted the posts so you can see what I'm talking about.

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Bryan Socha
Media Center MVP