Re: [PCWorks] More Gemstar Guide Plus issues, can anyone update theirs?

  • From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 08:32:20 -0600

Yes, that IS annoying.  At least when it remains on screen for
so long.  My cable co. does that with their boxes, you change a
channel and it's this huge banner at the bottom that covers the
picture that remains forever.  But with Gemstar (as you know)
it's small, at the top, and only remains for about a second.
(Ironically, the new TV I got my mother won't work with the
cable co. box, NOTHING is ever displayed on the screen!  Not
even the program guide!)

Ben according to this page, our cards ARE supported.  8500, and
later. http://www.chris-tv.com/cards.html#other

I guess it's not free, right?
-Clint

Happy New Year to all and God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
www.OrpheusComputing.com
www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Moore"

Oh well.  Boy do we get spoiled.  I have a TV in my house that
I didn't want
to pay to get a digital box for so I don't get the pop up on
the TV about
what is playing on each channel.  I miss it. How did we survive
is the old
days when you had to look in the TV guide?  ;-)

You may find some tuner software that supports the 350.  Most
of them
support the 550.  I just looked at ChrisTV.  They don't list
our older chips
at all, just the 550 and the 650.

Ben

-----Original Message-----

Sorry what I meant was I want to see what's coming on by
"clicking a button" like I currently do......or did.  Something
that can be integrated with the ATI MMC like Guide Plus is.
Like when you change channels you see the program's name on the
screen.  I'll have to be looking for something like that.

The chip info isn't even in the manual, it's an "R350" but I
don't know if that's Rage, Rage Theater, Rage Theater Pro, etc.
It's not very new, it's an old card, AGP 8x.  Not PCI Express.
It came out shortly after yours.
-Clint


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Moore"

Sorry it's not working, Clint.

If you just want to see what's coming on there are a couple of
web sites
that have full tv listings.   www.titantv.com  is very good.
It's the one I
use.  It's the one the my cable tv company uses for their
channel guide.
Really configurable and fast.  www.zap2it.com is another
although I don't
like them as much.  I don't ever use gemstar/guideplus anymore.

Of course if your internet connection is down, it doesn't work.
But where I
live, it the internet connection is down, everything else is
usually down
too.

As far as other tv tuner software, it depends which chipset is
in that 9800.
The 9800 is probably new enough to be compatible with most
programs.

Ben



-----Original Message-----

A day later and it still doesn't work.  It's been about a week
now so it's got be more than a server issue, plus you can
update yours which doesn't make a lot of sense.

I know there's other software out there to replace it, that's
why I asked if anyone was using something to replace
Gemstar/Guide Plus and it worked, which would save me a lot of
time. ;-)  The only thing I use the software for is just to see
what's coming on, the program guide.  But recently I did try
and record something (but it didn't work), so being able to
schedule a recording would be nice.

BTW I'm using an AIW 9800 Pro if that makes any difference
chip-wise as to what software will work with it.
-Clint


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Moore"

I would wait a bit, Clint.  I've had all those things happen to
me, cannot
connect to server, no updates for that time period, etc.  I've
never tried
to fix the software.  I just wait... And eventually they fix
their end of
it.  I think this company must do software maintenance every
couple of
weeks.  I do my recording using Snapstream Beyond TV with a
haupage tuner
card on another computer.

It might also be a DNS problem if they've changed and it hasn't
propagated to all the servers yet.

There are other TV software programs out there.  You know the
drill.  Google
and then start trying them.  I did that a couple of years ago
and had
problems finding any of them that supported the hardware chip
on my AIW
8500.  Some of them support newer AIW cards.  Chris TV is one
that I know
of.  Snapstream is another.  I'll tell you right now that
snapstream won't
let you watch in real time.  It does that delay that you didn't
like in the
newer ATI software.

If you find software that you like, let us know.

Ben

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