The last month I have been doing this with XBMC. The base stuff works amazing and using xmbclive was quick and easy. The trouble I have been having is setting

The last month I have been doing this with XBMC. The base stuff works amazing and using xmbclive was quick and easy. The trouble I have been having is setting up Live TV. Our provider uses IPTV so getting content is as simple as faking a mac address and joining udp groups. But getting that setup nicely with anything "set top box"-like has been hard. In my opinion though, this type of episodes on demand, no schedule required, watch when you want thing is the future of TV. It is funny that most people now have PVRs (and swear by them) but really those things are just caching content already saved and available in cable company head-ends. I am surprised there hasn't been more movement by cable companies to allow end users to watch their content libraries whenever and however they want. Especially with the way TV Shows are getting more serial and epic - miss one episode and you don't want to watch any until you are caught up. Is it a matter of bandwidth or maybe just no interest in doing something new?