Ted F said:
We will have to wait another 8-10 months to a year for a NEW release of
MMC.
The NEW "ATI's MMC 9.13" is like "BeyondTV". You can't TURN OFF the "TV ON
DEMAND" in both software programs.
I DON'T like BOTH software programs, they stink!. I'm still with the old
version of MMC 9.06.1, it has NO bugs and I can CONTROL turn on/off the
"TV ON DEMAND" when I want too.
Yeah, I just upgraded an older 2.53GHz machine with a AIW 9700 from MMC 8.7
to 9.13 and found the picture quality dismal, and the performance horrible -
every time I did something on the machine the video lurched, and even while
doing nothing sound skipped regularly. So, I backtracked it to MMC 9.08
which seems to work fine.
My main PC uses MCE 2005 with a TV Wonder Elite, and while you can't turn
TVOD off in that either, it works much more smoothly - no glitches even
during system intensive things, much higher picture quality (though still
not as good as an AIW in live mode) and it has nearly zero impact on the
rest of your system. And of course recordings complete seamlessly in the
background without you knowing they're even happening (besides for a red dot
that appears in the system tray).
When I first switched to MCE I figured I'd miss MMC - I've been using it
with every major AIW revision since the AIW Pro - but I must say that over
the past few months I've grown to really like it...
- Dan