Well so far its pretty nice, the video has some macro blocks in it but not much more then my Sat. TV (yes, I think Dishnetwork is filled with macro blocks) actually its slightly blurry, but so much as to be a big deal.

The Hauppauge PVR 250 MCE does its job perfectly with the standard driver, even for FM radio which that specfic card supports under MCE2004.

When you insert a CD or DVD with Divx or WMV files on it it pops up and ask if you want to play it. If you say yes it takes you to a listing of the files on that disc. I really like this. However divx support is not native it was added by me. In the end it can supposedly play anything mediaplayer can.

Complaints? I have a 2 minor and 1 major one so far.

1.) FM radio can be played but not recorded, I had hoped it could auto record the Russ martin show (kinda a local funnier howard stern) and then burn to CDs to listen to work in the evening... small loss and I think 3rd party software can do it.

2.) I get a random error that from my research is the recorder crashing so that sets the time it records programs... not had an issue with it major yet but others are saying the same thing, it appears to be a recent thing because of a MS update (I updated before I hooked it all up) and supposedly MS knows about the issue and is hopefully working on it.

3.) is the major one, it played VCDs perfect, but does NOT play SVCD that I can find, I'm currently investigating if there is a way to make it do that.. cause it wouldn't play divx either until I installed FDDshow.