grapaslingo

I realize I'm kind of an exception, but Media Center does almost everything I want it to. It records HD locals in the clear through QAM, captures my analog SD cable, has several useful 3rd part applications, and with a little tweaking automatically skips commercials for me. It works flawlessly through my xbox and has the most bautiful interface I could hope for--expanding the possibilities of the xbox 10 fold from what I purchased it for.

All that and I can tell the cable company to screw their 70 bucks a month fees with their sucky DVR.

The complaint oer hd-dvds is valid, as is not being able to stream DVDs to the xbox, but you can in fact stream wmvs to the xbox. So an application like DVD-WMV makes the possibility of creating an archive of DVDs on the Media Center possible.