Getting my pc redone and thinking of having Media centre or Vista put on

Who is using what and whats it like?

 

VISTA = NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....

I have it on the laptop and it's pish.... wait for service pack 1 to come out... Apparently it'll be better then. Cos it's WANK the now.

 

I have Vista HP x64 and can't fault it at all, its been spot on, runs smooth as silk, no problems whatsoever!

A million miles better than XP

 

I've got Vista on a brand new PC and it's quality!

 

also got vista and cant fault it...

 

Why me.......

 

If you have a machine thats over 3 years old the likely hood of you installing vista and everything working isnt very likely buy it on a new prebuilt machine and you will know everything works.

Personally im still on xp pro because not all my hardware works with vista, and my sound card doesnt function to its full capability either so ive got shit sound aswell

Xp for now

 

got it on 2 machines
it's great
gets a bit of getting used ot but when you do it's simple enough

 

Vista Media Centre is the dogs So if you have a PC you intend to use solely for music, video, tv, etc, then get Vista Media Centre as it's cool as shit

Otherwise, I'd stick to XP Media Centre as unless you are a computer nerd or at least more than averagely computer literate, you'll probably not like Vista as an OS.... Most people who are just regular joes who have had Vista say they preferred XP.....

XP Media Centre isn't vastly different to normal XP, in fact in most ways it's the same. but the bolt on addition of Media Centre is quite cool.....

 

I have vista ultimate and that has media centre...

It's proper easy to use records everything that you want you can set up to record a whole series etc

Also where you can have the 360 on the same network you can watch films on whatever other tv you like through the 360's media centre ..


Mart

 

make sure you go for at least home premium, cos that has most of the cool features as basic is pap

 

Or you could try media portal?

Not a bad alternative if you don't want to fuck about with changing operating system..

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/


Can be a bit of a pain to set up but once it is done it is just as easy as mce


Mart

 

Thats what i want it for....to run the xbox through everything

 

Pm me your address and i'll send you a "trial" copy of vista ultimate

 

anyone got specs of there setups then?

 

Fil dug it up then

What you after fil? it cant just be there pc specs surly

 

Well, seeing as he said "anyone got specs of there setups then?" I would hazard a gues that yes, he wants specs

 

Thought he meant the specs of Tiffs machine or something

Fil clear up the confusion, or rather MY confusion

 

specs of anyones machine will do

oh and https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=305593

 

Mines a couple of years old now but still plays most new games well

Athlon 64 4200 x2
2gb ram
300gb seagate barracuda
7950GT 512mb
X-fi xtreme audio sound card
Antec 900 case
19" widescreen samsung syncmaster

Running Win xp pro (didnt like vista for one reason or other)

 

Does anyone else find that large HD TS files rag your processor?

I downloaded The Matrix Reloaded and when playing back in 1080P the processor usage is 100%!! Does anyone alse find this?

My processor is an AMD 4600

 

I have used Vista on my Media Center and desktop for the best part of a year now. No complaints at all - much prefer it to XP.

 

if its an older pc, as long as you have a spare pci slot for a tv tuner i've whack windows xp media centre edition 2005 on it, it basically xp pro.

ive got the hauppauge hvr1300 freeview card with built in hardware encoder in a old compaq 2ghz p4 with justy 512mb ram , 250 gb hdd and a xfx 6200 agp card for the tv out. it basically replaced my dvd player, video recorder, stereo and freeview box.

so its got all my mp3s on it, and is like sky + for freeview, well impressed with it.