As part of my ongoing experiments I have bought a Hauppauge PVR-250, and installed my old license of SnapStream PVS 3.3(Now called BeyondTV 3.4).

I run this together with myHTPC to get the music, picture and video archive funcionallity that I am used to from ShowShifter.

I have also installed J.River Media Center 9.1 and a remarkable piece of sofware called NetRemote (www.netremote.org).

Through this I can control my music collection from my old HP Jornada 568 PDA over WLAN. Look at this cool remote: