[ShadowTD]

I spent last year using 7MCE with 2 Xbox extenders and Sky HD as my primary TV source. The guide was brilliant, the UI was goregous (and is still missed) but the reliability was 'complete arse'. If VM had gone to the new MCE embedded I think we would have had a 'better fit' than TiVO. Lets face it, the majority of customers will be somewhat nonplussed with the recommendations system. Embedded MCE would have given them a red-button framwork, a streaming framework, Silverlight & Flash compatibility and a sexy sexy guide. But probably not the help with the integration that TiVO have given, so greater cost to VM. Plus, MCE embedded was only announced this Jan. Tivo was already in the homes of triallists by then.