Is mediaportal going to survive the new xbmc

I have been a longtime user of mediaportal about 6 years before moving to XBMC only because i wanted to try somthing different i didnt have a tvtuner so the tv server was wasted on me so i thought i would have a play with xbmc for windows while keeping my mediaprtal setup but once i learned how to use xbmc i rely liked what it had to offer for what i needed especially a live XBMC OS as time moved on i got into skinning in xbmc and rely got into the scene but time came for me to get a tv card with all the new hd tv content so i thought about returning to mediaportal until the XBMC development team announced the next installment of the software codeneame Dharma with
improved skinning engine
also new addons section
full blu-ray support
full mkv/Avchd playback annd much more
tv tuner support for live tv and recording using myth tv server or mediaportal
and much more check here for list Roadmap ? XBMC
so was just wondering what you guys thought about this and what mediaportal will have to offer over xbmc i rely like mediaportal dont get me wrong but i like my eye candy

Last time I try xbmc, it was perfect to look poor divx on screen for newbees but if your problem is quality of video, freq, colors, management, sound and if you want a full htpc computer with TV, there is no conccurent to mediaportal, free or not

I tried XBMC a couple of times because I do feel that XBMC's interface is a lot 'smoother' than MP's. However, as soon as you want XBMC to do a bit more you realize that MP wins out as far as plugins etc go. My feeling is that MP is way more extensible.

That said, I think both projects have a place in this world and can only benefit from each other. For now, I'm looking forward to MP2.

Re: Re : Is mediaportal going to survive the new xbmc

Yes, but you could use "MythBox", which is a MythTV frontend for XBMC... MythBox Project

At the moment I'm using both XBMC and Mediaportal, and I'm still not sure which one I like the most.

XBMC
pros:
- Skins (love the Alaska Skin)
- Almost everything plays out of the box (no codec trouble)
- HT- Experience plugin
- Being able to view the trailer that you downloaded with the movie. (If you're in doubt whether you're gonna like the movie or not)

cons:
- Less updates
- Harder to find Skin updates/changes
- harder to find the correct plugins
- Configuration only inside XBMC
- Not able to change a serie/movie when the wrong one is found

Mediaportal
pros:
- Moving pictures
- Tv Server (Don't use it.. but still )
- A lot of plugins
- Great forum
- Configuration both inside and outside Mediaportal

cons
- skins are less smooth and nice, although StreamedMP is getting there
- No trailer support
- No HT Experience
- Hard to find the right codecs, although SAF is pretty good

The last few months I'm starting to use XBMC more and more over Mediaportal (Sorry)