I went to watch a bunch of recorded HD shows this morning and almost all of them are a mess. Started doing the typical debugging and discovered a problem with my new Dimension 9200s (both have the exact same problem). If you run HDTune, it should show a consistent 65-75Mbs. It doesn't. The graph looks like a mountain range. Every few seconds, the performance drops to near zero and then pops back up. The 750Gb drives in both machines (actually one has a 1.5Tb Raid 0 array) work flawlessly in HDTune. I've neve seen anything like it. I would have assumed a bad drive, but it happens on both machines. I'm going to image one over to a 300Gb I have laying around and see if it still happens. If so, I'd suspect something running in the background, but what? I'll call Dell, but can you see explaining this to the script monkeys? Tom