In this first installment, I talk about the current situation I am in with all of the TV's in my home being HDTVs.  With the shift to HDTV, it has become more and more expensive to get this content to your televisions.  HD is barely free for the channels that are important to my family.  If all we watched was ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox then we'd be fine but Disney, Discovery, ESPN(1, 2, 3...) and a few other channels are regularly tunned on at lest one TV in our home.  Hence, the Windows Media Center solution. 

I discuss it in detail in this post.

After the new year, I've made two additions to the plan.  First, I installed an Xbox 360 in our bedroom marking the first TV to receive it's set-top box.  I like the new 360s.  They are significantly quieter than my launch 360 that is in the basement theater room.  The second part was actually installing the TVs that we purchased for our daughters. 

I describe that in a more detailed post here.

Come the 1st of February, I had 3 out of the 5 set-top boxes needed for my plans to take over the tri-state area.  The interesting part about the third Xbox is how and under what conditions it was acquired.  Details can be found in the following post.

Purchased the parts on June 3rd.  Will build the PC and coument the process as soon as everything arrives.  Details of what I purchased and why I bought what I did can be found here.

Performed the installation but ran into a few bumps along the way.  Read about them here.

CableCARD installation went well though I am left with a few unresolved issues on the PC itself.  Xboxes are working flawlessly which is what the wife will actually see so I suspect the WAF will be favorable with this change to our house.  Read more about the CableCARD install here.