Hi,
Looking for the best approach to using IceTV with my media centre.
Vista Media Centre
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2200 (dual tuner)
IceTV padding 5 mins before 10 mins after.
CRT TV

After a long session trying to get the CRT set up I was finally up and running.
Excitedly I went through the whole 7 days EPG setting series after series to record and a few movies here and there
As I went along I could see a few conflicts popping up (stupid need to pad programs, bah limited to 2 tuners

)
A day or 2 of recording and all seems to be going well (very happy with the hauppauge so far)
Unfortunatly there is no way to see a list of recordings coming up withn VMC (that I could find) so I decided to go have a look at IceTV interactive website.
Although "My upcoming shows" was just what I was looking for; all the series recordings were shown as 1 off recordings with no series recording options available.
For the life of me I couldn't find the series recording options that I read were available

In desperation I cancelled most of the recordings and tried keyword search/record.
The advantage of the "prefer HD" option seemed to be just the ticket but...
The thought of adding all the keywords was a bit of a turn off.
Accidentally I came accross the series recording options (because the single recodings were cancelled) but there was no prefer HD option

This would be my preffered method (its consistent with VMC) but the missing HD option is just a deal breaker

On a side note the listings were not showing conflicts (even though IceTV knows how many tuners I have and the padding settings?) does it need to wait for VME to report the conflicts?
So after all that I need to come up with a best practice strategy to get the most out of IceTV/VCM/Tuners.
1. Should I only use 1 of either VCM or IceTV website
i.e. VCM for scheduling, IceTV for viewing info only
or just use IceTV website for everything?
2. Depending on answer to 1
Keyword record only
or series record all channels and remove duplicates (SD) manually daily
3. Back to Back programs like simpsons, two and a half men, red dwarf etc are going to be a real pain I believe with padding and only 2 tuners
How best to handle them?
4. Has anyone successfully installed 2 x Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2200 (dual tuner) which would eliminate most of my conflict woes