What do I do with my tuners now that I no longer record shows on the computer?

  I have 2 tuner boxes and 3 tuner cards.  I have the SiliconDust HDHomeRun Dual High Definition Digital Television HDHR3-US (Black), and a Hauppauge WinTV DCR-2650 Dual Tuner Cable Card TV Tuner.  I use these tuners for watching live TV or for recording a show that I want to watch right away.
  Last night I setup a recording for The Big Bang Theory and we watched it about 15 minutes after the show started as this let us fast forward through the commercials.  So, I still need and want the tuners just not for all of my recording needs.
  If you don't watch The Big Bang Theory I recommend that you download the first season and give it a try, this is my favorite show being aired now.  You can use Google or any torrent search engine to find a torrent with all of season one in one torrent.  See my post about downloading TV episodes for more details.

I no longer record my television shows on the computer

  I still watch them on the computer I just no longer record them there.  Instead of scheduling and recording all of my shows with my tuners I download the shows as bit torrents from the web.  The shows tend to be available the day after they aired, they are high quality and the commercials have been cut out of them.
   Another advantage of downloading verses recording the shows is that the download file tends to be about a quarter the size of the recorded show.  I freed up nearly a terabyte of space on my Windows Home Server by downloading all of the back episodes and deleting my recordings for my series.
  To find bit torrents of your favorite shows you can use torrent search engines or you can use Google.   There is a great guide to setting up your Windows Media Center environment and downloading your shows called Eliminate Cable available from AssassinHTPC.  There were a couple of ideas listed in this guide that I've started using.

My Home Video System is working super well, I am thrilled

  For video playback I now use a computer at each television.  These computers connect to my Windows Home Server to pull or stream video.  The neat thing about this setup is that I can start watching a movie on one computer, stop the playback, move to the other computer and resume watching at the spot I stopped.
  I'm not doing anything special to make this room to room move work, I'm just using one source for all of my video and Windows Media Center (which is in all versions of Windows 7 except basic).  Windows Media Center (also known as WMC) writes a little file to the location where the video file is located noting where you stopped playback.
  Last night we were watching Jungle Book 2 in the front room.  Stopped the movie, moved upstairs to get ready for bed and continued playback.  The cable company wants to charge quite a bit for a DVR that can do this and Windows can do it for free.

Back on Media Center Again

We moved the DVR back to the family room and I've setup a Media Center PC in our bedroom. While I'm not loving the selection of channels, many of our favorites are not available, we are loving watching downloaded video and some Media Center recorded shows.
I've installed the Silicon Dust HDHomerun and so far am pleased with it. It's been fun to work with and configure to get all the channels possible. I still don't quite have it setup completely but am probably 95% done.
Part of the issue that I have with my Media Center is that I don't want to leave the computer in the bedroom running all the time. I have a computer in my office that runs 7X24. I configure recordings from the HDHomerun on the office computer and then daily I power up the bedroom computer and move the recordings over.
The issue that comes up with this setup is that if I see a commercial for a show that I want to record I have to either try to remember it and schedule it when I get on the office computer or run to the office and schedule it right away. Remote access to the office computer would be cumbersome as it's awkward to use a wireless keyboard while sitting in bed ten feet from the television screen.
Media Center is not the perfect solution that I would like it to be but it's pretty good and I'm having fun playing with it.