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I agree, I bought a Windows Media Center computer, mainly because we needed a new computer for all of our digital pictures and videos (you parents can relate). I thought the PVR functions would be neat, but by no means was that the reason I chose an MCE...boy was I wrong. We have the computer in our bedroom so that my wife can use it (it is our personal computer...I have a work laptop in my office) and I just spent the weekend crawling around the attic to run an output to the downstairs TV. Now I can watch my PVR'd shows downstairs.
I agree it really does change how you watch TV, I have been watching shows like "coupling" and "the Office" on BBC. Stuff I never tried before. I don't watch more TV, just stuff I enjoy better. A common question among my PVR friends is "What program have you discovered?"
On a side note, the function I seem to use the most on my MCE (that I did not expect) is to play music while playing a slideshow. It randomly plays a slide show to whatever music you select (I usually have the music on random too) and I feel like I get so much more enjoyment out of my digital pictures by seeing ones that I didn't even remember. It is like a music video of my pictures, even putting the title and artist info on the bottom.
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