[masraum]

OK, in case anyone is curious. I have DirecTV with the "Whole Home" DVR. I've got an HD DVR downstairs and an HD player in the bed room. I still haven't ripped all of my DVDs to disk, but I think that is the easy part (other than being time consuming and needing the not-free software).

I had downloaded TVersity, but that didn't work. I was doing some searching and found a recurring them that the new TVersity didn't work, so I downloaded the suggested older version from Jan 2010, TVersity ver 1_7_4_1. It seems to work fine, and with a separately downloaded and installed codec pack, it will even transcode many/most videos to the proper codec to play on the DirecTV tuners.

I can stream from my PC directly to either of the HD receivers. (I think it may have to be an HD receiver to work).

I'm still interested in other options, so don't stop if you've got some good info.