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<blockquote data-quote="longjohn119" data-source="post: 673373" data-attributes="member: 107900">The drivers on that page my not work, I know the 801e drivers won't with Vista Media Center and TV Pack 2008. The best thing to do (and it notes this at the top of the page now which is something new) is to download the new version of PCTV Center that just came out and install it. After you get everything working in Media Portal then you can delete PCTV Center and the drivers will stay. When I set up Vista Media Center with the TV Pack I had to install the beta to find the best drivers and the only ones that would scan the QAM tuner correctly in the 801e. The 800e drivers must have gotten an upgrade too because it never was this stable.&nbsp; A big problem with both of these devices has been BDA drivers that weren't 100% compliant and that was pushed to the back burner during the transition of the line from Pinnacle to Hauppage subsidiary PCTV but seems to have been (Finally!) fixed in the latest drivers in the PCTV Center software.I don't know if any of the updates help the analog sections of either tuner since I no longer use the analog section of either tuner. The analog tuner sections are always going to be problematic since they don't have a hardware encoder. They were really just thrown in there to get through the 'Digital Transition' here in North America. I'm lucky in that my cable provider has all the extended basic tier analog stations also available in SD Clear QAM.&nbsp; Analog TV is on it's last breath</blockquote>

[QUOTE="longjohn119, post: 673373, member: 107900"] The drivers on that page my not work, I know the 801e drivers won't with Vista Media Center and TV Pack 2008. The best thing to do (and it notes this at the top of the page now which is something new) is to download the new version of PCTV Center that just came out and install it. After you get everything working in Media Portal then you can delete PCTV Center and the drivers will stay. When I set up Vista Media Center with the TV Pack I had to install the beta to find the best drivers and the only ones that would scan the QAM tuner correctly in the 801e. The 800e drivers must have gotten an upgrade too because it never was this stable. A big problem with both of these devices has been BDA drivers that weren't 100% compliant and that was pushed to the back burner during the transition of the line from Pinnacle to Hauppage subsidiary PCTV but seems to have been (Finally!) fixed in the latest drivers in the PCTV Center software. I don't know if any of the updates help the analog sections of either tuner since I no longer use the analog section of either tuner. The analog tuner sections are always going to be problematic since they don't have a hardware encoder. They were really just thrown in there to get through the 'Digital Transition' here in North America. I'm lucky in that my cable provider has all the extended basic tier analog stations also available in SD Clear QAM. Analog TV is on it's last breath [/QUOTE]

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