Starting to follow your show – it's fun to hear from guys who enjoy the fun (and bear the pain) of setting up Media Center.

You just talked about a question on Show 50 that is interesting to me regarding using PCs (rather then Extenders) to stream live TV over LAN. I understand there is currently no Media Center solution. But is this what Webguide is supposed to be for? I have never used it but its documentation says that it has some limitations: (i) it's available for Vista but not Windows 7 and (ii) it has no 10ft interface as it is run inside a browser. Any experience with Webguide for this purpose?

Slingbox is also a pretty well-established solution for streaming live TV to a PC. Works great over LAN, including wireless. Not having the MC interface is again a downside but it does have an iPhone streaming app, which I haven't tried, and it is probably easier than any other solution for streaming remotely over the internet.

@Brad – both good solutions for some. Personally, I could never get Orb to be stable, it seems to stop working every now and again for no reason. ESPN360 is great but, unfortunately for me, not available overseas.

Got one more question for you: any advice/experience with setting up Hauppauge HD PVR in Windows 7? I am thinking mostly about ease of setup and stability. Even if I can't stream live TV, having the W7MC as set-top PVR (my cable company does not offer any PVR service) and sharing recorded shows across LAN would be pretty nice features to have IF the setup is stable.

Keep up the good work on the show.
Cheers, Joe.

also as a side note, for watching “football” espn 360 is great. I have it at both home and work and it is great to catch a match or two in the afternoons. As far as I can tell it is all the recordings they have access to that are shown wherever originally.

I just wanted to put my two ören (swedish cents) in about the windows 7 hardware compatibility. I use a HTPC with a on-board Intel G45 chipset. This is working like a charm in XP with audio out through HDMI. But in 7 the Intel drivers are horrible. Video acceleration is not working as it should, live TV crashes WMC to desktop, a fall forward from the last drivers that would bring up that nicely blue-shaded-full-screen-windows-promotion artwork. I hope Intel will resolve this soon because I am getting pretty tired of waiting..

On another note, I've run MediaPortal for years, and it can definitely look as nice as WMC. Another great feature is that you can run the TV-server on another box, like your Home Server (not officially supported though) and then connect your clients to that master server. It is nowhere near WMC for hardware support though.

Lastly I'd like to ask you a question: I have the HTPC on XP Home, the fiance's laptop on Vista Home and my office computer is running 7 RC but I have a XP Pro license for it. If I buy the 3-user DVD upgrade of 7 will that work for all of them?

Man I wish MS would make like Apple and release 1 version of the OS, preferably for $39

Thanks again for a great job with the show
zeeke