im going to agree with this.... i dont have the cablecard stuff (hdhomerun here) but media center as a system is really good. i think a big key here though is to treat it as a server or a device and not toy with it once things are setup/configured (i even have my vista ultimate installed on server hardware).
of course things are really going to get interesting if those directv cards ever make it (hopefully wont have all those lame cablelabs restrictions). because that could be the endgame.
tivo does some things media center doesnt do and media center does some things tivo doesnt do. i personally run media center as my main dvr and then directv for the hd channels i dont get through qam cable. there are tons of little things you can do with media center because its a computer that a device just wont be able to do. now it does have some flaws that need to be addressed but it looks like ms is going to fix most of them.... they are just taking forever.
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im going to agree with this.... i dont have the cablecard stuff (hdhomerun here) but media center as a system is really good. i think a big key here though is to treat it as a server or a device and not toy with it once things are setup/configured (i even have my vista ultimate installed on server hardware).
of course things are really going to get interesting if those directv cards ever make it (hopefully wont have all those lame cablelabs restrictions). because that could be the endgame.
tivo does some things media center doesnt do and media center does some things tivo doesnt do. i personally run media center as my main dvr and then directv for the hd channels i dont get through qam cable. there are tons of little things you can do with media center because its a computer that a device just wont be able to do. now it does have some flaws that need to be addressed but it looks like ms is going to fix most of them.... they are just taking forever.