I'm getting frustrated now... I've spent the last couple hours or so trying to figure out how to get all my different boxes (VCR, CDplayer, Cable boxes, MCE PC, etc...) all wired up for the best, non wife confusing setup that I can, dealing with a major design flaw in the Hauppauge PVR-500 card. During this time I was enjoying the MCE PC - skipping commercials, letting the music files load up in the background... It was all going sooooo sweet. ....and then... One of my recordings started. I got the little popup asking to change channels and I clicked OK. It switched as it should and all was well. I hopped into the guide to see what else was on later and I noticed that the guide is very slow to page up or down a few hours into the future.Oh well, I can live with this for the time being. I jump back to the TV to try and watch the channel as it's being recorded... Hrm... Can't play the show from the "recorded programs". I guess that makes sense since it's still being recorded. I try to go to Live TV and it looks like it's starting, but the screen is just black? WTF??? What is being recorded? Now I don't know if my show is recording fine and I can't see it, or if my show is being recorded as a black screen. I decide to stop the recording and then try and play it to see just what it was doing. It stops... I go to the recorded programs and try to play - Nope! "Decoder Error - Either the decoder is malfunctioning or not installed" ...CRAP... So I exit MC and restart it - same error... I restart the PC... same error... I shut down completely for 5 minute and power up... CRAP... SAME ERROR?!? So, what just happened here??? It was working so perfectly before my scheduled show started to record. I had nothing else running except MCE - even automatic updates are turned off. - Videocard is an HIS Radeon 9550 256meg 128bit AGP card with VIVO. Latest ATI MCE drivers installed. - Capture card is a Hauppauge PCR500MCE with the cable box connected to SVideo in. - HDD has LOADs of room on it - 512meg of memory installed - I've installed the NVidia decoder (why not try it for 30 days - everyone says it's great) I did try and reload the NVidia decoder again with no change. Changed resolutions from 800x600 to 1024x768 (Not the easier to read 8 point text on!) All the DirectX tests pass without a problem. .... now I'm stumped. What happened? and more importantly, How do I fix it???