Turning off TV On Demand

Barry, he may have the file attributes still set to "read only" and that
could be why he can't delete them. The only files I deleted were the *.vcr
files, I left the others alone. I have had no problems after deleting and
rebooting. Sorry Ted, ATI is wrong, you *can* delete them and they won't
come back. And I *do* mean *delete*, not just sending them to the recycle
bin. HTH someone else.

Louie
Gainesville, FL
(eat the flies to email)


"Barry Watzman" wrote in message
...
Please note that he DID just delete them, as I too have done many times.
Which is the ultimate proof that it's not at all impossible.

Ted F wrote:

HELL NO!!....YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT...DUDE!

I been round and round with this.

ATI SAID "THERE IS NO WAY TO DELETE THOSE FILES. THERE HIDDEN FILES
WINDOWS
SEARCH WILL FIND THEM, BUT, WILL NOT TOTALLY DELETE THEM"


"Barry Watzman" wrote in message
...

Not necessary. You can just browse to the folder and delete the files.
No need to restore. If you can't delete because MMC is running, shut it
down then delete the files.

Ted F wrote:

The *.vcr files are stored in a directory called : ATI MMC

Most computers have only one hard drive partition, in that case. The
only way to delete the files is uninstall the just the ATI MMC Suite.
Then delete the ATI MMC directory. Then install the ATI MMC Suite again
with the TV On Demand disabled "OR" pick a different location for the
*.vcr to be saved in the ATI MMC directory, which is a different
partition.

Like mine I have my hard drive partitioned into 4 drives C/D/E/F.
Therefore the ATI MMC directory was located on the F hard drive
partition where I simply reformated that drive ONLY, which deleted that
directory with those *.vcr files. I had over 3 GB in that directory.

Hope this helps



"Louie" wrote in message
. net...


"Ted F" wrote in message
...


Got to ATI.com

Check : Topic #: 737-22252 - TV On Demand cannot be disabled with ATI
Multimedia Center 9.13 or higher




NOTE : Does not always work. When you close the ATI TV player and
start it up again you will lose what you did, meaning you'll have to
go though the same steps again to disable the TV On Demand.

What I did is used the "Composite" or "S-Video", when active a windows
will pop up asking "Use this connector with TV On Demand" I clicked
"NO" and check the box "do not show this again". This disables TV On
Demand "PERMANENTLY" as also for the "S-Video connector".

Because I have a Digital cable box that has those connectors (RCA
and/or S-Video), thats what I use.



"Louie" wrote in message
.net...


How in the heck do you turn off TV On Demand? Help file says to
change recording mode to something other than Native in TV setup but
it still records. Thanks!

Louie
Gainesville, FL

The registry hack worked, thanks so much! TV On Demand was eating up
my HD space. You wouldn't happen to know how to get previous
recordings deleted, would you? I've tried deleting in Media Library
but no joy. I even did a HD search for a particular file with no joy.
Look in My Documents but nothing there. Thanks!

Louie
Gainesville, FL

They probably don't want to tell people they can do this for fear they would
mess with real system files and hose their system. Knowing what your doing
means you don't worry about it. IMHO making them system files was yet
another mistake by ATI. I've had these files get corrupted and need to
delete them to get MMC to start properly. All of the files can be deleted.
AFAIK repair/uninstalling doesn't remove them. CatUninstaller does.

"Louie" wrote in message
.. .
Barry, he may have the file attributes still set to "read only" and that
could be why he can't delete them. The only files I deleted were the
*.vcr
files, I left the others alone. I have had no problems after deleting and
rebooting. Sorry Ted, ATI is wrong, you *can* delete them and they won't
come back. And I *do* mean *delete*, not just sending them to the recycle
bin. HTH someone else.

Louie
Gainesville, FL
(eat the flies to email)


"Barry Watzman" wrote in message
...
Please note that he DID just delete them, as I too have done many times.
Which is the ultimate proof that it's not at all impossible.

Ted F wrote:

HELL NO!!....YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT...DUDE!

I been round and round with this.

ATI SAID "THERE IS NO WAY TO DELETE THOSE FILES. THERE HIDDEN FILES
WINDOWS
SEARCH WILL FIND THEM, BUT, WILL NOT TOTALLY DELETE THEM"


"Barry Watzman" wrote in message
...

Not necessary. You can just browse to the folder and delete the files.
No need to restore. If you can't delete because MMC is running, shut
it
down then delete the files.

Ted F wrote:

The *.vcr files are stored in a directory called : ATI MMC

Most computers have only one hard drive partition, in that case. The
only way to delete the files is uninstall the just the ATI MMC Suite.
Then delete the ATI MMC directory. Then install the ATI MMC Suite
again
with the TV On Demand disabled "OR" pick a different location for the
*.vcr to be saved in the ATI MMC directory, which is a different
partition.

Like mine I have my hard drive partitioned into 4 drives C/D/E/F.
Therefore the ATI MMC directory was located on the F hard drive
partition where I simply reformated that drive ONLY, which deleted
that
directory with those *.vcr files. I had over 3 GB in that directory.

Hope this helps



"Louie" wrote in message
. net...


"Ted F" wrote in message
...


Got to ATI.com

Check : Topic #: 737-22252 - TV On Demand cannot be disabled with
ATI
Multimedia Center 9.13 or higher




NOTE : Does not always work. When you close the ATI TV player and
start it up again you will lose what you did, meaning you'll have to
go though the same steps again to disable the TV On Demand.

What I did is used the "Composite" or "S-Video", when active a
windows
will pop up asking "Use this connector with TV On Demand" I clicked
"NO" and check the box "do not show this again". This disables TV On
Demand "PERMANENTLY" as also for the "S-Video connector".

Because I have a Digital cable box that has those connectors (RCA
and/or S-Video), thats what I use.



"Louie" wrote in message
.net...


How in the heck do you turn off TV On Demand? Help file says to
change recording mode to something other than Native in TV setup
but
it still records. Thanks!

Louie
Gainesville, FL

The registry hack worked, thanks so much! TV On Demand was eating up
my HD space. You wouldn't happen to know how to get previous
recordings deleted, would you? I've tried deleting in Media Library
but no joy. I even did a HD search for a particular file with no
joy.
Look in My Documents but nothing there. Thanks!

Louie
Gainesville, FL