Thank you for your reply. I am also confused about cable cards and what role they play in setting up a WMC. Right now I have a cable box and from the cable box the coax goes into my tuner on the back of my pc. Could I get rid of my cable box and tuner and use a m-card instead? I’ve been trying to find a design/layout of how to set up a WMC server along with several extenders throughout the house. So I can have the cable going to at least 3 TV’s in HD. My house is wired and wireless. I’m just unsure of what hardware setup on the server in order to get multiple streams along with the ability to record multiple shows at the same time. Ryan, any help or links you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again!

I’m new to WMC and I’ve been starting the process in my office to set this up and test it. I would like to eventually have a few extenders around the house. Right now I have 1 USB tuner where the cable connects to the back of it on my PC. For multiple tuners do you need to split the cable so it can be connected onto each tuner card on your PC?

Yes, you would need to have the cable going into each tuner card. If you have a dual-tuner card you’ll still need to send the cable signal into the single tuner twice.

You have to remember that an extender is pretty much just a tool used to remotely contol a Media Center PC. So you should be able to do just about anything on an extender that you can on the PC.