Son of the Taskbar - Transcript - Hour 3, Segment 10

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David Lawrence: There are plenty of forums and bulletin boards that discuss how to use Windows Media Center and certainly with Direct TV, with digital cable, with HDTV options at the high-ends of digital cable, how to record all of those things inside Windows Media Center is something that a lot of people have faced and more and more people are facing, as the entire infrastructure of cable in this country upgrades to digital. So I don*t think you are going to find Microsoft you are going to find Microsoft making Windows Media Center capable of understanding the digital cable system in your city, because they have to make it capable of understanding the digital cable system in a lot of cities. And it is lot easier to do that with analog than it is with digital, plus there is encoding and there is all kinds of things and billing issues, they can*t move the commerce of the box, and on to your computer. So that*s the solution that I think you are going to need to find and those forums will tell you what devices are out there. When I got my digital cable box at home, the digital cable company actually warned me, that if I have TiVo if I have Replay I am going to need one of these. And they handed me this IR thing and I am like what*s this? And they go see this all sticky things on there, you rip the paper off and you stick it on the thing and that*s what changes the channel for and I am like this is so 1950*s. You know this is so like rabbit years because it*s like goo, it*s mechanical almost a mechanical solution to what should be a digital problem. But that*s what you have to do and that*s the big speed bump in doing that. In terms of the dual TV tuners usually that*s the case with any digital Set-Top Box is that you can*t do two at once but you will have to check and see if that*s the case. I don*t think you can do multiple cards controlled by the same install of Windows Media Center it*s always usually one card.

Aaron: So it would have to be a dual tuner.

David Lawrence: Right, right and then, and I think the Windows Media Center supports picture in picture or whatever your Set-Top Box will support. You just are going to have to see if your stuff works with Windows Media Center.

Aaron: Okay.

David Lawrence: And it*s everybody is different so it*s not one answer that I can give. But and send us, tell me how this turns out, get back to me when you figure it out.

Aaron: I sure will.

David Lawrence: I appreciate that and Aaron thanks very much. 180039 online that*s our telephone number 18003966546 let*s go to Steve, Steve you are Online Tonight with David Lawrence hello.

Steve: Hi David thanks for your time.

David Lawrence: Thank you.

Steve: A question, whenever I am running my MS Word program on Windows 98, if I am writing a letter for example, if I go to print the letter out and the first sentence always comes out on the center of the page. So when I go to page setup to adjust my settings, my settings are always showing 8_x14 Center. So I make the changes to 8_x11 Top, print things are fine. But should I log off and come back 5-10 minutes later to print up another letter the settings go back to 8 _x4 Center, I have to make the adjustments again. Any idea what might be wrong?

David Lawrence: Right yeah your, it*s one of two things either the Normal.dot Template is setup that way in the Page Setup, its* setup as Legal and Centered.

Steve: Right okay.

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