I have a PCTV HD Ultimate stick (880e) with TVCenter Pro v.4.98 build 250. I have saved my 'at home' and 'at work' channel lists because it can take a long time to rescan. Well, for some reason unknown to me, I am unable to load the channel lists. If I try to load a list in TVCenter Pro, it acts like it does it and then nothing changes. Anyone have an idea on this?

As an update, if I save the channel list to the c-drive it prompts me to close database connections. (I saw a remedy elsewhere for this problem.)  If the list is saved to the 880e and I try to load it it just spins like it is loading and then nothing. Could this actually be the same issue? Read-only on the db?

Are you trying to load them both on another computer?

Are the three computers on the same cable company or these are aerial channels?

Moved to PCTV Channel Scan.

It is a single laptop computer; Vista Ultimate 32-bit.

 I have aerial channels at home and cable at work. I have scanned and saved the channel lists for both locations. I wish to simply load the appropriate list as I move between these two locations.

I have the same problem on an XP SP2 system.  This is the work around I have found to work.

Open the settings, and select "TV Channels"

Load the desired channel list... DO NOT click "Apply" and leave the settings page open.

Open the Task Manager and switch to the "Process" tab, and click the "Image Name" column to sort by name

Do the following IN ORDER.

"End Process" for  "VideoControl.exe" first, and then "End Process" for "PMCLoader.exe"

This should close TVCenter Pro.

Wait a few seconds and then open it again.  Your Channels should be there.

If this does not work, try deleting all the channels under the "Available TV channels" column in the TVCenter Pro Settings and repeat the above steps.  (You may need to close and restart TVCenter Pro after deleting channels before loading saved channels.  I had tried deleting all the channels so I am not sure it will work if channels already exist.)

PS I found this out when I tried to load a different channel list than the one I desired and then later on when changing channels TVCenter Pro locked up so I had to kill the process.  When it restarted the channels were there.  What I have a feeling is going on is that it loads the new channels, but somewhere there is a bug displaying them in the settings, so hitting "Apply" or "Close" rewrites the existing channels, and hitting "Cancel" doesn't write the new channels.  And/Or when TVCenter Pro is closed properly what ever the exiting channels are are re-written to the stick.