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[jpcoh1]

I am a Windows7/WMC user for many years. Now that W7 support is terminating and WMC is no longer available with W10, I am forced to find an alternative. As a novice at this technology, I would appreciate some advice as to whether MC will meet my particular needs. Of course, if the answer is yes, then I can settle down to working out how to do it. At the moment, I do not even know if it is possible.
I have 4 DVB-T tuner cards in my PC. I need to use these to provide TV shows to a scheduler and to be able to watch and/or record them onto an HDD on my PC. WMC also delivers an EPG to me which is essential for the process.  I also have 2 XBox360 which have been serving as WMC extenders, one attached to each of my 2 TVs. I can then stream either live or recorded TV shows to each TV separately and even control scheduling and recording on my desktop PC through remote control input at the extenders. I can also play from the music library on my desktop PC through the extenders and share photos similarly.
Is there someone out there who can advise if all of this functionality can be delivered by MC, and whether a relative novice should be able to set it up?
tHANKS

[tzr916]

Many people have switched from WMC to JRiver MC. Works great for whole house media system including multiple tv tuners, tv guide, live tv, recording/playback of tv shows, plus music and photo collections. What won't work is copy protected channels (like hbo, etc), and using xbox as extenders. For me, the best option for extender is still a cheap PC sitting at each Tv, running JRiver MC as a client on Win10. Strongly suggest you build a high power Win10 PC to use as the MC Server and of course wired GB network. Hopefully more people with experience setting up non-USA guide will chime in for you...

[RoderickGI]

Yes...
... but with the caveats tzr916 listed. However, you don't really have a choice but to leave WMC and W7, and JRiver MC is a good option to take.

It looks like you are in America so you will have options for EPG. But different areas have different OTA EPG data, so the built-in internet-based data is probably best. Where, approximately, are you located?

There is a learning curve for MC. The forum will help, and the Wiki has a lot of good information.

[tzr916]

I have 4 DVB-T tuner cards in my PC...

Looks like non-USA...

Best advice is don't try to mix WMC and MC on the same PC. There will be conflicts and pitfalls. I'd suggest building a completely separate Win 10 Server PC, moving one or two of the DVB-tuner cards to it and install JRiver MC, setup Tv, test if you like it.

[JimH]

... don't try to mix WMC and MC on the same PC. There will be conflicts and pitfalls.

Did you try MC's option to Disable Windows Media Center? 

[tzr916]

Well this was over 3 years ago, but it appears that option is simply meant for theater view behavior (wmc green button). Not sure it does anything regarding serious conflicts like trying to share tuners between WMC and MC, which can be done, but more complex setup is required in WMC and MC. Much easier to do a separate test machine.