OK, so after all the hype about Windows Beta on this blog, while I have it running alongside Vista now and am, overall, quite happy with it, I won't be using it much:
--Microsoft has disabled the TV Card drivers in the Beta version, so it no longer runs my Windows Media Center TV program, which I use extensively, which means I am now more or less relegated to Vista.
I say 'no longer runs' because, at first I thought the TV Card Drivers had been disabled only in the final Beta, so I rolled back to Build 6596, because the TV always seemed to work in that version.
No longer. The TV function worked once, then quit.
I tried reinstalling the drivers--to no avail. It still won't run TV in the Media Center.
You can't even run the TV from the ATI Catalyst Program either, because once installed, the .exe
simply disappears and you can't locate it to run the TV.........so, I give up.
It was a noble experiment, but it looks like I'm stuck with Vista until MS allows Windows 7 to run with TV cards, most likely in the RTM in June. Bleh.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
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