Quite a nightmare, but I think I finally got the box working. Long story short, it sat as a doorstop for months. I finally got back to it and determined that he LCD panel on the Antec Fusion case shorted. It then started and electrical fire Wed. night. (Thankfully, the wife unit was not home.) So, now the LCD panel is totally disabled and the wiring that ran to the LCD panel is burned up. I will try to get a new LCD kit from Antec. Remote does not work, but I bought the Lenovo N5901 as a remote and that works pretty well!
http://gdgt.com/lenovo/n5901/I wish I had bought a dual tuner. I bought a hybrid tuner (Hauppaugge 1250) on the expectation that by now cable card tuners would just be flooding the market. Thoughts on whether to upgrade to a dual tuner v. just find an old analog tuner for one of the open slots? I think I understand from Miller that the feed from the cable box has to be coax out to an analog input. Correct?
What is the latest on cable card tuners?
Any additional thoughts on how to use Windows Media Center?
Is there any easy way to fix it so that on other computers in the house can access what is on the HTPC. They are all Windows 7.
Also, I finally gave up on trying to get a N-router to work and just ran an Ethernet cable from my office to where the HTPC is in the family room. I know there are people here who have been lucky to N-routers to work; I am not one of the lucky ones (when it comes to HTPCs).
