Well, on a whim, I decided to give this a try on my desktop system that runs Vista Ultimate.  Since I don’t use Media Center except for testing on there, I didn’t figure it would hurt much.  By now, most everyone that is interested knows what it does and adds, so there’s not much more I can say.  I will say that if you have an HDHomeRun, it is a complete pain in the ass to get the TV portion set back up if you normally pull a good number of unencrypted channels via cable.  I typically get around 30 and after going through the scan only three were found.  I had to manually rename and edit the listing on all the others.  In a way, it was a good thing because there were always a couple of stations that didn’t match any listing and I was able to figure out what broadcast they really were, but I don’t really want to have to go through that again.  Comcast comes Saturday morning (8-10am) and when they activate my cable for the digital starter package, I’m going to be getting a lot more than what I’m getting now, so I’m trying to solidify a way to copy the EPG settings from one TV Pack-enabled box to another.  I’m still researching what plugins it breaks before I install it on anything else though.  I think MediaControl is the only one that I’ve found so far, but it may have an updated version…I don’t know yet.  If anyone needs instructions on how to manually set up HDHomeRun channel listings with TV Pack, comment on it and I’ll post what I did.  I’d do it now, but I don’t feel like it :)

My tape drive was supposed to arrive yesterday, but it didn’t.  After looking, I realized it’s coming from Texas, so I can see why it was delayed (hurricane).  It is supposed to arrive today though.  I really hope it works (as-is purchase off e-Bay).  The guy has fantastic feedback, so I’m thinking it will.  Tape drives are pretty durable (even though Dell tape drives typically suck).

The pool guy came yesterday too.  It went well and the estimates looked pretty good and were within what we expected.  There are some things that we didn’t expect, but no deal-breakers.  I just hope we can get it in for next summer.