I live in the US and I'm using the TV Pack (torrent derived) on my main MC machine and loving every minute of it. It's the only way I can get HD channels (i.e. Clear QAM channels) from my local cable provider without having to pay for a higher level of service with a silly set-top-box (which I absolutely don't want!). I'm not having any problems at all with the TV Pack. I'm using it with a pair of AverMedia AverTV M780 combo cards and the picture quality of HD shows is stunning to say the least.

I tried jumping over to using the public Windows 7 beta, but all of our recorded TV shows stutter and appear all pixilated whenever I try playing them with extenders run over my wired gigabit network. Thus, I had to go back to using Vista Ultimate with the TV Pack instead. I'm really hoping that our Windows 7 problems will be fixed in the release candidate as I really like the new UI.

I'm in...

I had one of these but returned it... There is indeed absolutely NO way to get multi-channel sound out of it even with an HDMI A/V receiver (and the silly thing claims to be HDMI 1.3 capable as well!). I tried and tried (even called Samsung) only to find out that it just can't be done (not even with a future firmware update from what they told me on the phone). It seems completely absurd that Samsung would build a "Media Center" extender with no way to output surround sound for all of your HD TV shows. D'oh!