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May 17th, 2006 22:00
HP Express Card TV tuner
For those that might want to know. I thought I would take a chance and order the HP express card analog tv tuner to try with my new Dell E1505. I really wanted a more compact solution than hanging a usb tuner off my computer. To my amazment, it actually works!!!. I have only had it for a couple of hours now but it seems to be working with no problems. For those that are interested there are a few things that you should know as I had a few challenges getting it installed. The card costs 179,00 + tax from HP (this is for an expresscard slot like the 1505 has. When I got the card it did not have any drivers that came with it. It came with a media center remote and the normal usb media center receiver. (Well you can't have everthing), but at least the card is less of a hassle than another thing hanging from your computer. When I got the harware it came with a document disk but I could not find any drivers on the disk or any other disk. Of course when I put it in the dell it asked for the drivers. A seach through the hp site was useless when I looked for drivers for the card under the cards name. I eventually looked at the drivers for one of the HP computers it was supposed to support (dv800XX) and found a listing for an mce tv tuner for a yauni card (if you look real close at the card you can see this is the actuall manufacturer. I downloaded and installed that driver. It comes as a self extracting zip file which you must extract to a directory. Next you have to go to the directory and run the setup program (I think I ran it twice before the system worked). After a reboot, when the card is inserted the blue lights came on and it worked correctly. Had to go to media center to set up menu get media center to recognize. Now it works with no noted problems. Took about 30 minutes to an hour for me to figure the above out But now I am glad i went this route rather than the usb tuner offered by dell. Dell should take note that it was a close run-off between them and hp on my choice, the media direct option on the smaller (15 vs 17 Dell) is what swayed me (this option was only on the 17 inch HP from what i could tell. Otherwise I might have opted for the HP based on the express card media card. Of course now that I know this card works on the dell I am even happier with my ultimate choice.
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Mcoffman
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May 18th, 2006 08:00
thats great! I bet your post will be interesting to alot of people - especially how you got the correct drivers, etc.
Marie
scottjg24
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May 21st, 2006 15:00
Do you have the XP Media Edition 2005 on your E1505? I just got my E1505 a month ago but I needed XP Pro to take into work & college. Will that HP tuner card work under XP Pro?
ScottJG24
BarnacleBill
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May 22nd, 2006 01:00
Mcoffman
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May 22nd, 2006 11:00
BarnacleBill
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May 23rd, 2006 09:00
navverma
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May 25th, 2006 18:00
BarnacleBill
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May 29th, 2006 13:00
I know that Aver Media is supposed to have released an expresscard solution, however I did not hear that it would have FM so I assume it is probably not the same card. I did a little searching before getting the hp card and could not find a place that sold the express card solution for aver media. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Just so you know the hp card does not have fm radio either.
Bill
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June 25th, 2006 17:00