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Thinking of my advanced age, 76, and the few avenues left to explore, I have just read about MediaPortal and installed it. But, it will need extra hardware to make it work, and I have not the first clue as to what and where to obtain such. You need to believe me when I say that this time last year, I had heard of, but never handled a computing machine, and here I am using one.
I also need to tell you that my tv service is cable and Virgin Tivo, so I will need to be guided accordingly. Is there one person out there who will be willing to guide this old man? My objective is recording TV on this PC.
 

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Hey old man;) ,

First of all, welcome to mediaportal.

I do not. Know the details of your provider
Your provider uses a smartcard to decrypted scrambeld channels?
 

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    Please tell us

    1. What TV provider / service you will be using, or you could tell us what hardware you are currently using to watch tv

    2. What city / country you live in

    3. What computer hardware you currently have (Most importantly: CPU / Motherboard / Video Card / Ram)
     
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    May 11, 2013
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    Please tell us

    1. What TV provider / service you will be using, or you could tell us what hardware you are currently using to watch tv

    2. What city / country you live in

    3. What computer hardware you currently have (Most importantly: CPU / Motherboard / Video Card / Ram)

    1)My TV provider is VirginMedia, a cable service providing me with Tivo, through the same cable that supplies my phone and broadband services
    2)Plymouth/U.K
    3) AMD Phenom ll x6 1075T Processor 3.00GHz
    3)32.0 GB of Memory
    4)M5A97 Asus Motherboard
    5)Radeon HD6870 Graphics card

    This was built for me by a dear old friend, as a special favour, before he moved North. Any hardware I would need would have to be, if possible, external, as I do not have a lot of room inside the box.
    With all that in mind, any help at all, at all, would be welcome.
     

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