Our friend Adam Z Lein just posted a great how-to over at Pocketnow.com. The subject: Synchronizing recorded TV shows to your Windows Mobile phone. In a nutshell, here's what the article covers:

"...with Windows Mobile, you can get ANY TV show automatically synced to your device as soon as it has been recorded off of your home digital video recorder for free.  As long as you use Windows Media Center, that is.  But guess what... if you've got Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate on your computer, you're almost already there.  All you need is a Windows Media Center compatible TV Tuner.  You can find these TV tuner kits for around $100 and many of them just plug into the USB port on your computer.  Plug the TV tuner into your cable box or antenna and you're ready to record your favorite TV shows for free, even if they're not available on iTunes and without paying a monthly fee for TiVo.

Once set up, using Windows Media Center to sync recorded TV shows to your Windows Mobile phone is the easiest way to make your DVR completely portable.  You don't need to buy extra hardware or maintain a high-speed internet connection in order to stream video from your home.  You can watch TV on the subway even when there's no phone reception. You don't have to pay for the shows and there's no manual conversion process.  The down sides to this set up are; you've got commercials to sit through... and Media Center down-samples the videos to 320x240 pixel resolution, which may be a bit poor on the quality side if you've got a high resolution screen on your Windows Mobile device."

Adam provides a complete tutorial on the hardware and software you'll need to pull this off, along with plenty of screenshots to guide you through the process.

I have this setup and you don't even have to sync them - if you have Orb on the PC and an internet connection on your mobile device, you can watch all the shows that are stored on your PC.

In the UK, Sky TV (Satellite) have the facility to control your Sky HD or Sky Plus (both DVR) over the internet via a simple java app that mirrors the menu system exactly. It has to be tweaked a little for WM devices because of the Java compatibility is setup for Nokia devices but it works very very well. No messing with MCE required.

Orb is good too, but it doesn't work on the subway and takes some buffering and web browsing to get going.  By syncing them, the shows are instantly available in your Media Player library at all times.