Brent Evans has (almost) all your answers on the HD PVR that finally has started shipping.  And remember, it doesn’t work with Media Center (yet?).

Joe Wilcox has Eight Things About Windows 7 following Microsoft’s first public demo of the OS at All Things D.  Overall I think Windows 7 is going to be more like Vista Second Edition.  It really isn’t a “whole new OS” as Vista was from XP.  Nonetheless I’m excited about it, and I hope Microsoft is planning to make the transition away from the Vista name that has become a horrible brand.

Ian Dixon has The Media Center Show #158 with FUZE Media Systems.

Lastly there is a very interesting article on the downfall of Akimbo.  You might remember Akimbo from the days where Media Center was their target market before things really started to go wrong.  In 2005 I had a number of suggestions for Akimbo (before they launched the Media Center plug-in), and a number of them actually happened.