Wow, I’m a lot closer than I

Wow, I’m a lot closer than I thought I was.  Thanks very much for the help.

I did hope to use the server to also record shows centrally, since it will be the only computer that’s guaranteed to be on all the time.  But it’s not critical, as there aren’t many shows we’d want to record.  At least not right now.

So if I understand correctly, I don’t need Windows 7 on the server at all to share the InfiniTV tuners with my client PCs.  Server 2008 R2 is capable of handling this on its own.  I did notice that the Ceton card seemed to install just fine on my server.  I hadn’t got much further than that.

I need to learn more about using Media Center, which I have never tried.  Is there a way to cause all recorded shows to be recorded on the same machine, regardless of where the command to record those shows came from?  Basically, can a set of computers running Media Center be made to act like a MediaPortal installation with a central TV server?  If it’s possible to assign all recording duties to a single machine, perhaps the recording machine could be a VM on the server.