Quote: Quote: To me, Media
[quote][quote]To me, Media Center has always felt like a “gadget” added to Windows, and in the past has been treated sort of like the illigitimate son. Just look at the slow acceptance of Media Center into the common “living room”. It’s getting better with the xBox as an extender, but Microsoft just doesn’t seem to be pushing it that much. I know several people with xBox’s that didn’t even know they could stream media from another computer to their TV’s with it 
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Again its not just Media Center, its the acceptance factor of having a computer control your TV or just the higher up front costs. I know my parents wouldn’t fork over the kind of money I did just to be able to watch and record tv like I do.[/quote]
Funny, the lack of up-front cost was a big part of why I went with windows media center. Over the years of being an HTPC enthusiast, it became increasingly cost prohibitive for me to maintain both a main computer and a separate HTPC. I’d already ditched cable TV. I realized that I could just save myself the trouble and let my main rig do double duty. 7MC was already part of my existing OS (so could be considered free of cost). The only true up front cost was for a tuner card and antenna, which combined only cost just slightly more than the lowest cable TV package I could buy would cost for one month. I also already owned an xbox, so there was no cost for extender capabilities.