[elmo]

Another option is to leverage Windows Media Center. Given a tuner card, or in my case, a device called an HDHomerun, you can dload listings for your channels and record to your hard drive capacity. The HDHomerun takes your antenna signal and puts it on your home network, so you need a network router, which I'd guess you probably do. The cool thing is that any PC can now become a TV. I can watch out on the deck or in my office or garage, where I don't have a TV, but I have wifi coverage.

You mentioned Netflix. There's a Netflix plug-in for WMC. At one time, I was tuning TV, Netflix as well as serving up my own movies collection, all from WMC. Have since dropped Netflix.