[Dark_Slayer]

Hopefully this can become reality so I can finally stop switching between XBMC and WMC to watch/record live TV. I have HDHR and I don't see any straight-forward guide to have HDHR working the way it does with WMC (flawless).

If you don't care for protected content nextpvr works flawlessly within XBMC.

I used it for quite a long time with Comcast Copy-Free stations, and I can say it never works flawlessly. In many cases, pressing stop leaves the HDHR tuner light illuminated for up to 5 seconds, during which you will not be able to tune another channel. Try teaching that to everyone in your household, because if a new channel is requested sooner you get the "tuner not available" timeout even though you are supposed to have 3 tuners available. In WMC, you can press stop and go right to the next channel and play without a hiccup. You can also change channels as quickly as you would with a STB from you cableco. In NPVR, even with margro's XBMC builds for fast channel changes, the channel changes take 3-4 seconds for full a/v. If you constantly change channels you can still break playback (tuner not available) whereas WMC never breaks playback.

However, if you just use NPVR (outside XBMC) you actually get the WMC experience. Just doesn't work as good with XBMCs internal player. You can't use external players (like NPVR or MPC-HC with a similar filter selection) for live TV either, so there is essentially no way to get flawless playback even if your cableco sets channels copy-free