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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ixian" data-source="post: 695153" data-attributes="member: 54932">I don't use DD either.A lot depends on the provider. When I had Dish Network, I'd get a "freeze" with Live tv about once a day or so - enough to annoy the crap out of everyone in my house. Even with the latest HDPVR drivers/firmware (which contained unspecified fixes for Dish) it happened.I got rid of Dish a year ago and went OTA for a long while using the HDHR. This more or less worked all the time.About 2 months ago we returned to paid tv, this time with our local cable provider. On a lark I hooked the HDPVR back up. It worked, I'd say, about 95% of the time - every 3 or 4 days we'd get a stutter that wouldn't go away, or a channel freeze. Enough that so my wife, who hated the system back when we had Dish with a passion, threw down the gauntlet.So now I essentially have one non-DVR HD cable box hooked up to the HDPVR which I use to archive shows. With 4TheRecord - which has the best web interface of any HTPC TV client, and near-Tivo like recording and scheduling capabilities, far beyond the stock MePo client - I can schedule up to a month in advance, using it's ScheduledDirect plugin. Recently another user wrote an addon that pulls TheTVDb.org info for shows and renames them to the appropriate format (s01e01-showname-episodename.ts) so plugins like MyTVSeries can use them. This way I can fill in and maintain a bunch of TV series for later viewing. In this regard, everything works great.Live TV though just isn't all the way there for me. It never has been. I've run the whole gauntlet over the years - driver updates, codec updates, trying different codecs, monitoring codecs in use with Graphstudio, checking my network (it's a wired gigabit net in my house), using the right switches, swapping out cables, using RTSP streaming, using direct TS file reading, you name it. Recorded programs play back without error, every time. Other movies, media, etc in MePo also work without a hitch. Live TV usually works, but locks up just enough that no one in my house will put up with it.So we're back to a two-box system. For "regular" TV they use the cable box, where they can pause tv and record the occasional show using a remote and interface they understand perfectly, because that is a system that was designed to be simple and user friendly and it never, ever locks up on them in the middle of something. For archived stuff, movies, whole series, etc, they switch inputs to the MePo box where they can do all that, watch Hulu or Netflix (thanks to your great addon!) and all the rest. It's not quite the all-in-one HTPC solution we all dream of, but it's good enough, and it works, all the time.</blockquote>

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