TV Receiver in Creative Entertainment Cen

Wouldn't a Digital TV receiver component in the Creative Entertainment Centre be a good idea? I don't have Windows MCE and I don't want to buy one as I don't want to have to reinstall my whole system just to get one new component. I have just bought a USB digital TV receiver (Terratec T Hybrid) and the softare that comes with it (Cyberlink PowerCinema) is an intense resources hog, plus it's yet another program that adds yet more automatic services to my system, slowing it down yet further. I think that with Creative Media Source and Creative Entertainment Centre already installed, I've got?an?excellent?piece of?media software already. It's fast and integrates?seemlessly with my soundcard. A TV component would just be the icing on the cake - why isn't one offered by Creative, even as a piad for add-in component for Media Source? This could be used to schedule recordings and enable the usage of a Remote Control (either the one supplied with higher end Audigy Soundcards or one bought seperately) for all the usual TV functions - through the Entertainment Centre, of course. Media Source could also be used to organise archi'ved TV recordings, and download them to a Creative Portable Media Centre. This seems like a no brainer to me. What does anyone else think?

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