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I can record fine with W7. I've actually run into the PlayReady problem only 3 times, all which were in the past 3 weeks. I once ran into it while I tried watching a movie (it would show for 5 seconds, then go to the PlayReady screen), another time while watching CSI, and another time while while watching commercials on Discovery.
I believe my schedule problem only occurs when I have it set to record only new episodes of a series under the recording settings.
Sounds like problems with third party software and drivers than anything else. That doesn't mean Windows 7 is bad.
Of course there will be compatibility issues this thing just came out.
I can't stand all of those people yelling "there's no reason to upgrade from Windows XP, it's more stable and is more hardened blah blah blah". These people stand in the way of progress. People said the same fucking thing about XP when it came out too. You have to take these kind of things in steps, and you can't expect the first version to be fucking perfect for your individual needs. Similar things can be said for Vista.
A friend of mine has had 0 problems with Windows 7 Media Center and TV tuner recording or watching... Must be some unique issue with your hardware.
Results may vary.
i hated vista with a passion and stuck with XP throughout it all but i myself have looked around and i'm really happy with windows 7.
I think it's what vista should have been and jcap your problems seem isolated, because i dont see or hear about other people jumping up and down about these kinds of issues like we did with vista.
Well, I have an HP media center PC with a Hauppage HD tuner, I haven't had any problems with it; not to say i have not had other problems with 7. I do think Windows 7 feels more like a real launch than Vista did; they have had a while now to fix shit. My entire proprietary PC worked out of the box; 64 bit to boot; damn nice from Microsoft I would say.
Honestly I paid 29.99 for it, so if it wasn't to my liking it cost me no more than a 3 year old game would; I am OK with losing that amount of money on a testbed if I don't like a product.
It's not an isolated problem if none of you are even using it the same way I am. I'l tell you 100% that it is not a hardware issue. It just isn't logical. Why can I watch TV and manually record if it is hardware-related?
EDIT: Right now, I'm messing around with recordings. Yesterday, I tried scheduling a one-time recording of a two hour long program and it began recording one hour and 30 mins into it. So, I cleared out my entire schedule now and set just one program to record. It started recording at the set time. That would explain how I managed to pull off some scheduled recordings back when I had only one. Maybe the bug comes from having too many (I had like 5...not many at all) scheduled programs. None conflicted, but none recorded.
And I do believe the recording problem is independent of the PlayReady problem.
No, I believe it may be some half baked DRM, I just have yet to run into it as I do not have a digital subscription. I do realize that you may need a Cable Card to access some things, but this has all been covered so may not be your issue. There are several folks out there right now building DRM friendly Cable Card setups, but it is an ugly world.
edit: also, if you had been having trouble with HBO, or Cinemax I wouldn't be as surprised as having one of your Locals blacked out....that's just fucked up.
edit again:seems like a lot of play ready issues I am reading about now. Be glad to test out tomorrow further after school.
With regard to the DRM crap, yeah, local channels get blocked out. It's happened twice while watching CBS. It also happened one time when I was channel surfing to TBS which was running a movie.
To make it shittier, all the times I've experienced it have been with live TV. It'd expect it to maybe pop up and say I can't record the program if I attempt to, or maybe pop over recorded video, but it doesn't do that.
I think we can all agree: fuck DRM
Why couldn't you have made that post when I was writing an article about it? XP
That actually does blow. Quite a lot. I'll have to see how it works with my tuner card at home.