If you've got a Motorola HD cable box (non-PVR), you can use the firewire output to stream all* the channels to your PC. Almost anything can read the stream (i.e. VLC), and you can use Cap-DVHS or something like that for straight recording.
The best setup I've done is a SageTV HD-PVR PC. It's the ultimate HD-PVR, IMO. It can stream TV to other devices (web browser, client PC, extender box) and is just way more powerful than Windows Media Center.
*I've only found a couple that don't work. Unfortunately for me that includes the NFL Network. All the HD channels (including PPV) work via firewire.
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