Vista mediacenter guide

As an example if you live in Houston:. A failure to get data for the zip code you entered will show up with an error like the one shown below. Do not continue past this step, go back and try another local zip code. To determine if the zip code you entered is working refer to the underlying log file available in c:programdatamicrosoftehomelogsFirstRun.

A sample failure from the logfile is shown below:. A sample success from the logfile is shown below:. After completing the setup the guide listings message indicating a successful update appeared a few minutes later.

A successful update to the guide was able to be show that the data was successfully being gathered from Rovi as shown below. And a successfully populated guide is the final step in validating that the new guide is now functioning correctly. Summary: In my environment I was able to work around the issue by trying a variety of local zip codes until one of them would populate the television guide data correctly. In the interim, having a list of acceptable zip codes would be a huge assistance for other people in the community who are running into this issue.

A subset of their comments are listed below and were provided by a forum on TheGreenButton:. After running the set up it should take mins for the guide to update. I want to assure you all that we are working on those issues, however. Daily, we are gathering all the issues reported, collating them by issue type, and following up on them as a group.

We look at each issue report of missing data for specific zip codes and providers to clean up the data feeds. So far, we have resolved a large number of data quality issues, addressed the series recording issues if not, let us know! We are continuing to work on this issue on our end, and greatly appreciate the help and support of the community in reporting issues and sharing info. I will update with any resolutions that I find here.

I am also on a discussion with Rovi on this via Twitter. I have also sent a message to Rovi via their twitter handle and am waiting for a reply.

And it was written in. NET to boot. I've been a huge MCE enthusiast since the original version was released in , so I was greatly looking forward to the Vista edition of Media Center. I've slowly been upgrading my Home Theater PC over the last two years in anticipation of the shift to Vista: 2. But that's probably another months out. I wasn't disappointed.

It's faster, it's prettier, and it's thoroughly improved in every way. The default UI makes better use of the horizontal, widescreen arrangements most home theater setups will have.

Recorded shows are now displayed as a linear timeline with a graphic still, rather than plain text in a list. Like videos, much better use of horizontal screen real estate; I can see dozens of albums at once. And the music library is dramatically faster.