I told everyone that I was done with media center and the removal is complete.  It is a pretty powerful PC so I wanted to keep the PC but I needed a new case.  The first thing that I did was choose a new case.  I picked up some extra memory as well since the Media Center PC only had 512.  My wife picked up a couple of the Motorola DVR boxes from our local cable company.

I moved over the guts from my Media Center PC to my new case and reimaged the drive with Vista.  The new box totally rocks.  I hooked up the two cable boxes and I now have many more HD channels.  Yeah!  I moved my XBOX 360 to my HD tv since I no longer need it's extender capabilities.  The only problem with this new setup is we can't share recorded tv shows between the two boxes but thats a small price to pay because of all the added bonuses.

Here is my old setup (box):

Here is the new setup (box):

Since I didn't put everything in my new PC, I am going to be putting some things up for sale on eBay.  If you are interested in any of these items, email me at jwright [at] wrightin [dot] gs and I will give you some more details.  I will placing these on eBay sometime over the weekend if I don't hear anything by then.

These are the items for sale.  They are all in good condition with the original contents.

• Ahanix MCE 601 Aluminum Case
• Gyration Optical Air Mouse and Compact Keyboard
• ATI HDTV Wonder  SOLD
• Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250  SOLD
• Microsoft Media Center OEM Remote Control and Receiver

UPDATE:  The above items that are now striked out have been sold.  I will put the remaining items on eBay tomorrow and Sunday.