Screenshots of a successful weekend project -- a fully functional Media PC

If this is a Media Center PC, why don't the pictures show any of te Media Center hardware?

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Thanks for very informative comments.

We use free over-the-air digital tv at our house. It is great. Doubled the program choices and cleared the picture here in the mountains. A couple of things I do miss. Without more digital tuners (only one and it's in the TV) we can't tape one and watch another. This project looks like one solution. I've also been looking at one for open source, in case anyone's interested: http://www.eff.org/IP/broadcastflag/cookbook/

One more thing... during my selection process for the TV upgrade, I found a lot of confusion in the stores about signals, et al. One was cleared up earlier: we are using the same old rabbit ears for digital tv that we've used for years. The antenna doesn't know the difference. Next, there is DTV (digital television, requiring a digital tuner) and there is HDTV (High Definition TV). Lots of the programming on free to air DTV is not in high definition. Finally, the next step is a C-band satellite dish where you can negotiate with licensing companies much easier than the cableco. Three grand up-front and maintenance depending upon number of lightening strikes. That's instead of $800+ annually to cableco. Break even in 5 years and gain after that... maybe, but more control for sure.

Thought: have more than one digital tuner available to record programming of interest that's broadcast simultaneously. It's how to avoid '57 channels and nothing on...' Thanks everyone, for hardware insites.