A Bit Of Laptop Help!

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  1. Prince Zainx

    Prince Zainx The Dark Prince

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    Hey guys :)

    As most of you guys have heard I have got a new laptop Sony Vaio XD intel dual core 2 :P

    And I am in works of changing my desktop
    it is Media Center Edititon
    so yeah i need some help with that

    People say that you can watch live TV in Media Center Edition?
    but I ask how ?
    :eek:

    Can anyone help me on that please :wub:


    Antoher question...
    I want a new skin instead of the MediaCenter skin on my laptop which looks alot like royalblue skin for winxp home edition or --- edition...
    so anyone got some place for some new and cool looking skins :)

    plus some matching icons too :0

    Please help me :(

    Zain :)
     
  2. Unrealbr

    Unrealbr Well-Known Member

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    You can by installing an USB or PCMCIA TV card in the notebook.
    As for the skins, you can grab the oficial zune skin @ http://www.zune.net/en-us/meetzune/device.htm or you can go and use some 3rd party apps to enable 3rd party skins either.

    Btw, i use the Zune skin since it looks kinda like the Vista except for the Start button wich is XP-like but orange.
     
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    1. you need a tv tuner.

    2. there is a link to the royale skin in microsoft somewhere... anyone care to give him the link?
     
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    Prince Zainx The Dark Prince

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    I mean
    that I already have royal blue
    and that it looks exactly like my windows media center edition skin :)

    I just wanted another skin so it looks different and i can say that it is my vaio because of being difference :)

    anyways
    how do i find out if i have a tv turner?

    Zain :)
     
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    for tv tuner, there should be a coaxil in on your lappy
     
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    Prince Zainx The Dark Prince

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    Um....*scratches head* ......what ?
    :D

    can you tell me exactly what it is or something like where it should be :lol:

    plus if i have a tvturner how do i view live tv then :rofl:

    Zain
     
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    like this:

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    see this? the right port, you plug your tv cable in there. you might want a tv y-cable if you dont want to disconnect your tv every time you want to view it on your lappy.
     
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    ooih i think i do have that :)
    btw i have to plug in cable all of the time :eek:

    isnt there a wireless way of doing this?

    Zain :)
     
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    yes, there is... you need a wireless cable box, similar to TIVO... let me look, se if i can find an example...
     
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    Prince Zainx The Dark Prince

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    damm I am home and on my computer
    i dont think that i have that ports

    alli got are Svideo, HDMI and a place that looks like a monitor connector xd
    then next to the svideo port i have a small port
    it says S400 under it and has a picture of an i in the right of it :)

    so yeah
    i guess no live tv for me :(

    Zain
     
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    thats probably composite out...
     
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    Prince Zainx The Dark Prince

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    so then there is no way of me watching live tv is there?

    :(

    Zain

    i feel so left out
     
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    You could buy one of those tv tuner cards.. I'm not too sure how much they are though..

    Then you'd just have to get a Y-cable for convenience's sake as Master said.
     

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