Blowing away 'smoke' from the tuner

I got a helpful tip off http://www.dtvforum.info/ that the washed out colours on the video from the tuner card has nothing to do with the card itself and everything to do with the codecs and gamma settings on the video card.

I'd installed the video drivers with just the default settings and hadnt had any reason to adjust them, since the picture on everything except TV was fine.

Went hunting through the settings, found the gamma setting (whatever that is) and unticked Auto - instantly the blacks became black again rather than grey and the smokey haze that seemed to permeate the video dissappeared like magic.

Cool.

Also, since its not the tuner card, I unwrapped the remote control that came with it and plugged it in. Naturally it didnt work. Rebooted and still didnt work. Checked the driver and set it to the right remote type. Still didnt work. Reinstalled the software again and this time it worked.

Goes to show - it pays to be persistent.

Antenna guy is coming around on Saturday to do the antenna. I'll test out the waking and going to sleep when the recording timer is set.

I need it to wake from S3 sleep to record and then put itself back to sleep again when its finished. This has a reputation for being a bit tricky.