Back to my TV-

We got back from a year abroad. Thankfully Time Warner had rolled out the Channel Adapter so we can get all their HD channels now (but no on demand). They use Switched Digital Video (SDV) so that they don't send out all the HD channels at once, you have to request a channel and they send it. This saves some bandwidth assuming there are lots of obscure channels that are rarely watched. Basically, I had a new box on my stack that goes between the TiVo and the cable and plugs into power and the TiVo USB port.

We ordered a USB HD stick for our HTPC. I ripped out the two PCI cards for tuning HD and dual Cable (low def) and it is now stable. The USB stick is slow and the video gets blocky after a few hours, but it works much better now for watching TV in the bedroom.

I also ponied up for TiVo Desktop Plus. This allows us to transfer and watch video from the HTPC to the TiVo without too much trouble. So now we can watch videos in the den from the HTPC using TiVo Desktop and the reverse. Not all as slick as I had hoped, but not too bad.