PlayTV & Background recording.

Yeah, it can get the EPG over the air as well, it picks up both tuners too, I was able to record one channel and watch another, didn't get chance to try recording two channels at the same time though, this was under Windows 7 x64.

Fancy making a mini guide?

Very interested in this.

Is Windows Media Centre available to download for free?
 
Bugger. I'm on XP Professional SP3.

Is there anything that will do the same job?

You could try MediaPortal which was a fork of the popular XBMC code base. I run it on an ASUS EeeBox hooked up to my HDTV via HDMI and it looks great, I even have a hacked Xbox remote dongle so I can use the old xbox remote to control it. It runs the PlayTV Tuner without a problem once the drivers are installed (it lags a little when I do PIP mode on MediaPortal but that is due to the 1.6Ghz atom).

I'll try and make a guide when I get chance, kind of busy with my dissertation for the moment though.
 
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