topic Re: XL201 upgrade to Vista? in PCs & Accessories

XL201 upgrade to Vista?

andysp5 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:51:21 GMT

I have a fully working XL201 with MCE2005. After having problems and having to recover everything, I am reluctant to install anything that I don't need to.
I have read many people have upgraded to Vista.
Can anyone tell me what are the advantages to upgrading? Does MCE give more functions when operated with Vista? And if not, what's the point of upgrading?

Re: XL201 upgrade to Vista?

tonybeard — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:08:50 GMT

The Media Center in Vista is ....pretty.....and gives you a range of slideshow effects. I have found it to struggle with many freeview channels even though I have a direct line of sight pumping more (90 million KHZ) than is needed (70 million KHZ) and requiring signal downsizer equipment to work properly. I've ended up using my Sagem Freeview unit. Basically Vista is just more trouble than it is worth and I would stick to your XP Media 2005 until the first service packs come out later this year

Re: XL201 upgrade to Vista?

Blencogo — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:48:17 GMT

Good Advice Tony!!!

If it's working OK Andy - don't try to fix it!! There are still too many problems with Vista - wait until they are all fixed.

Re: XL201 upgrade to Vista?

@7908848805001668 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:04:34 GMT

Hallo everyone.

It's been a good few weeks since I last visited this area - funny how absolutely nothing has changed!! All the same concerns/problems as back in March (was it) when the Vista discs were first made available.

I still have my three XL-201s with 1.5tb raid arrays recording everything that moves - even more now that I've changed the Sony single tuner for a Hauppage dual tuner which, Tony, does seem to pick up no better or worse than the Sony tuner. (Strange that Sony uses a non-proprietary fixing plate for the adapter card- a bit of metalwork required here). Neither of them quite as good as the Bravias they are connected to though.

So far though, no problems with XP or the Sony and will therefore upgrade to Vista only when the service packs appear and Blencogo says so!

Andy

Re: XL201 upgrade to Vista?

ChalkyWhite71 — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:16:15 GMT

My MCE 2005 XL201 is superb, and I'm holding off upgrading. My mate has a brand new Dell laptop which is Vista capable, but he's switching back to XP as it's horribly slow at doing much in Vista, e.g. he moves into "my music", selects a CD then track, then hits "play". It takes a few seconds to get going, MCE starts immediately.

I don't see how Vista SP can help here, unless they rewrite the code!

Vista =

Re: XL201 upgrade to Vista?

andysp5 — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:53:53 GMT

So let's pretend the Vista Service Pack is released and everything is reliable, and the upgrade from XP is easy. What reason then is there for upgrading to Vista, when my Vaio is used 100% with MCE? Does Vista give MCE some amazing new functions?

Re: XL201 upgrade to Vista?

ChalkyWhite71 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:50:06 GMT

So let's pretend the Vista Service Pack is released and everything is reliable

you'd have to have a good imagination!

Re: XL201 upgrade to Vista?

MattWilson — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:29:15 GMT

So let's pretend the Vista Service Pack is released and everything is reliable, and the upgrade from XP is easy.  What reason then is there for upgrading to Vista, when my Vaio is used 100% with MCE?  Does Vista give MCE some amazing new functions?

As present Media center is almost exactly the same as in MCE 2005 although SP1 is supposed to have a whole new media center in it and its supposed to have been completely rewritten.

Re: XL201 upgrade to Vista?

andysp5 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:37:01 GMT

Ok thanks for that Matt. I understand now.

Re: XL201 upgrade to Vista?

kee-lo_ — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:36:18 GMT

Haha I like that, imagine an SP is out... bit hard with Vista.

Re: XL201 upgrade to Vista?

MattWilson — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:04:09 GMT

Ok thanks for that Matt.  I understand now.

Your welcome