[Delphinus]

I find that between having two small kids, the reef tanks, the basement/280g build going on, I watch *extremely* little TV anymore anyhow, but this is what I do (ie. watch my shows off a PC - it's just that my TV is hooked up to a PC running as a PVR).

I agree that the future of TV involves watching shows on your computer. Sites like youtube with "channels" are further pushing things in that direction. This nice thing is you can run your TV off a PC now anyhow, so it's not like your watching TV in some chintzy format or a little 2"x3" window or something.

My PVR was starting to have issues though in the last year (5 year old computer now, no wait, 6 years, which seems to be about the life expectancy of any of my PCs.. not sure if that's average or not, but .. well whatever). So every once in a while it would miss a show for whatever reason. In those cases I would find the missed episode by other means. Which generally meant I would watch the show in 1080 HD, and already without commercials. The quality of the "watching" was far superior. It really made me question whether I want to sink a couple hundred or more into replacing the hardware when the end result will be a step backwards in quality.