Got my TV tuner installed, media center picked it up. All is going well, but…
A should fill in a little history first…
I have my new PC (Dual core 2.8ghz bla bla bla…), installed Vista Ultimate. Everything installed fine, Vista liked all my hardware and started updating itself straight away. I got Media Center working straight away, again all was going well! My Xbox 360 was detected as soon as I turned it on, installing was very simple. I even found a way of getting my DivX movies decoded on the fly when streaming to the XBox. My pictures and music also sharing nicely and I was happy!
This was all a few weeks ago. This week I decided to treat myself to a TV Tuner for my PC. I picked up a WinTV NOVA T 500 card. I choose this mainly becuase it has two Freeview tuners on one card. This allows you to record one channel whist watching another, and pause rewind features.
I brought the card home, installed the hardware and started Vista. The card was recognised and installed within 3 minutes. When I started Media Center it detected the new tuners straight away, and asked me if I wanted to use them? I choose yes, and the ‘wizard’ walked me through scanning for channels and setting up the TV guide.
Everything worked fine, and for a few days we have been watching live and recorded TV through my XBox in the living room. The only problem was the Media Center was displaying “no data available” when you check the listings for ITV1 or 2. I gave it a few days to see if maybe there was a problem with ITV’s data or something. It wasn’t! So this morning after waking up at 8.00am and not being able to get back to sleep! I thought I’d try and sort it. It didn’t take long, mainly becuase I’m a believer in the ’simply’ things first.
If your getting the same problem, here is what worked for me.
1. Go to your Media Center
2. Go to Tasks - Settings
3. Choose TV then Guide
4. Add listings to Channel
5. Go to the channel causing a problem (in my case it was 3 ITV) and select it
6. A list of replacements are shown, simply select the same channel again (in my case it was 3 ITV Meridian)
The above is simply  the ‘take it out and put it back in’  but it works!
If anyone knows a better way or a reason for the problem please leave a comment and let me know!