We are really, really losing patience with the Media Center PC. When we first bought it, the price and feature list sounded really good. Then reality set in, with the various "interesting" setup problems. We finally got it working, and got things hooked up to the TV. That's when the fun really started.

Every day or two, the blasted thing just stops recording without sound. The bizarre thing is, sound isn't off on the PC when this happens - heck, the stupid media center application still beeps as you walk through it, trying to figure out why the heck the sound didn't get picked up with the show.

We had been considering buying another one of these as a replacement for our dying ReplayTV. Now, I'll just wait for Apple to ship something in this space. I rather suspect that it will actually work.