MCE XP and Vista: more tuners and more functionality

Dear sir,

since i have an Xbox360 as a MCE extender, i wonder if MCE will support
standard more than 2 tuners. i have managed to get 3 tuners working fine, but
there is no standard support for more than 2 tuners.
Will MCE support more in the future? because my home situation will be 1 MCE
computer, 2 of 3 XBox 360 or other extender (softsled is an good option for
my other PC) and we would like to watch our own live tv.

i also wonder the following:
- if you are watching live tv, a buffer of half an our builds up. sometimes
i decide te record while watching live tv, but it never uses the buffer in
the recording. Can you make it happen that de build-up buffer is the start
for the record? (of having the option to)
- with more than 1 tuner it might be an option to have some 'pip' (picture
in picture) in windows Vista it might even be in the scroll options while
watching live tv. (cursor buttons can give you program informatie over other
channels)
- there are rumors that MS is developing a softsled. (software extender for
PC) the rumors goes that this wil be in a SP for MS Windows Vista only for
commercial reasons. Or is there also news on de Windows XP MCE front?
if MS is on developing a softsled for Vista, wil it be connectible to an MCE
mediacenter?

so many questions, hope you can enlight me in these issues

Best regards,
Rolf Teekens

 

In XP or Vista, Media Center only officially supports two analog and two
digital tuners. As you've obviously discovered the hack for adding more,
that's about all you can do. At this point, there are no plans that I'm
aware of to officially support more tuners.