It has a eSATA port if you want to upgrade the storage later. I'm definitely interested but at $1050 with lifetime, I can wait. Wonder how long until the 4K minis drop.

I agree with you. That's one of many reasons I still have cable too. But for my parents who couldn't care less about 5.1, it saves them $50/month over a comparable cable TV package. Sounds like the OP is also looking for a bargain.

That being said, $100 for TV, HBO and internet is almost certainly...

Not considered DRM aspect. Guess I'll install JRiver on 30 day trial in Windows 7 and find out.
Strangely, the EPG in WMC has now started working today, without me touching it.
Would be used most for watching live TV via the PC, as the TV itself doesn't have Freeview HD tuner although it's an HD TV.

So some comments from the last couple months of owning the Shield Pro. I knew I couldn't record DRM channels like I could with the HTPC. I decided I'll try to live without that until Silicon Dust gets there DVR software working Then the Shield got a upgrade of its firmware to 3.2 which introduced...

Thanks spanner that's what I've actually gone with. I have it as a portable application on my flash-drive and used to use it at college so I'm just setting it up how I like it to look and hopefully all will be good.

I was just trying the Groove Music player which seems nice but the CPU usage is...

The Wayback Machine serves more of a snapshot viewer for forums unfortunately.

Look at NTLite if you really, really want to add in other updates or customize the ISO.

I'm using Win7 on my HTPC.

I did upgrade this PC (using a secondary, cloned hard drive) so that I would get the free digital entitlement just in case I want to move to Win10 at some point in the future. I have no plans to move to Win10, but you never know what the future holds.

Note that even...

I thought I read somewhere that one of the HDHR Tuners has built in transcoding, might even be the HDHR 3-CC.
No, it's the Extend.

Yes, I suspect that the Comcast network is insufficient for my neighborhood. The same thing happens when I am on XFinity Wifi anywhere within a mile or two from my house.

I will call them about it, but I am still angry either way. Less than 10% of advertised bandwidth is terrible.

I doesn't sound like there are any exciting alternatives. I guess I'll hang on to WHS 2011 for a little while longer; upgrading some of the hardware might all the refresh it needs.

I wish I had renewed my TechNet license before they did away with it, but as you said, there was never a large user...

I've been wanting to repurpose my old Win 8.1 WMC machine and build a Win 10 Sage TV/Emby backend to test the Sage TV/Emby apps as DVR solutions on the SHIELD/Android TV. Just can't seem to get around to it.

And you can still plug your cable box into the Xbox One and use the Xbox One guide to IR blast the channel changes right?

Yup. Rovi is used for that too.

Old thread, but it got me thinking about it again. I'm in the crowd that does a bunch of things on my $200 Intel NUC HTPC, including:

- WMC for OTA recording and commercial skip (stored on NAS)
- Netflix via Win 8.1 app (1080 + DD)
- Amazon prime streaming via Chrome (used to be horrible, now...

multiple WMC and using windows RDP but I have no idea how they are doing it. Maybe someone could share?

Yes, multiple RDP sessions of WMC have been working since mid-February. I wasn't much interested in making it work in Win7, all though others have. My only testing was done in Win10 with the...

When you mod this unit to do CableCARD I think that some shows will probably not play when out of the home on mobile apps but am not sure.

The output from the DVR via analog cabling--component, composite, RF--is not encrypted.
Indeed.

The point, which went entirely over your head, was that the cableco is in control of the recordings--not you.

Ignorance? Hardly. I know exactly what the facts are--but you have some sort of problem having them revealed to you.

Thanks for the invite Crash2009. Looks like you guys and Graznok are doing some really cool stuff keeping WMC alive in Win10. But every day I get a little more suspicious of the free Windows 10. It looks like the real cost of free (as always) will be advertising. And, in the usual MS GUI style...