Microsoft's Windows Media Center Remote Controllers come with an IR cable to control a set-top box, so you might find this to be an attractive-albeit expensive-option. One final issue was that we couldn't use the iMon remote to control television channels because we have a cable set-top box.

We were quite happy to find that the sound could be turned off in the iMon settings. However, it would work when using iMedian HD as the media center, even under XP's MCE.Ī notable annoyance is that the iMon remote monitor plays a default sound whenever a button on the remote is pushed we assumed this obnoxious sound was an error sound at first. Instead, it would continue to display the local date, time, weather, and system information. When using the older XP Media Center, the touch screen wouldn't show the graphic equalizer when playing music or movies like it did when using the Vista Windows Media Center.

This allowed us to change TV inputs with no further issues.Īnother issue was that the Frontview player didn't work with the older Windows XP Windows Media Center, but it ran fine with the new Windows Media Center that comes bundles with Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate. To get around this, we disabled AMD's Hotkey Poller with Window's msconfig. Switching the TV input back to the HTPC would automatically assign it as a secondary monitor clone, and this would cause both the television and LCD touch screen to display the Frontview application, with no desktop. This caused a bit of a problem in that every time we switched the television input to something other than the HTPC, AMD's Hotkey Poller application would detect the loss of the monitor and immediately assign the LCD touch screen as the primary output. For our tests, we used a Radeon graphics card that would auto-detect whether a monitor was plugged or unplugged.

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