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<blockquote data-quote="endo-soft" data-source="post: 168410" data-attributes="member: 49778">Hello,with Mediaportal you can you other remote controls as well, i.e. the M$ MCE Remote or using WinLIRC. You can also use EventGhost(free) or Girder that supports a vast amount of Remote Input Devices.My parents use the FireDTV with MP and even though they got a remote control to it they use the M$ MCE Remote. Further you don't need the software that comes with the full version, but rather a BDA driver which is available online, as far as I know.I've never heard of hardware differences.It should be possible to watch HDTV as long as it comes in MPEG2. So it depends whether you are using DVB-S/C/TAFAIK, in Europe HDTV over Satelite comes only via DVB-S2 in VC1 or H.264 codec. DVB-S2 FireDTV is supported by Mediaportal but the hardware seem not to be available yet.I suppose DVB-T does not support HDTV due to limited bandwidth.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="endo-soft, post: 168410, member: 49778"] Hello, with Mediaportal you can you other remote controls as well, i.e. the M$ MCE Remote or using WinLIRC. You can also use EventGhost(free) or Girder that supports a vast amount of Remote Input Devices. My parents use the FireDTV with MP and even though they got a remote control to it they use the M$ MCE Remote. Further you don't need the software that comes with the full version, but rather a BDA driver which is available online, as far as I know. I've never heard of hardware differences. It should be possible to watch HDTV as long as it comes in MPEG2. So it depends whether you are using DVB-S/C/T AFAIK, in Europe HDTV over Satelite comes only via DVB-S2 in VC1 or H.264 codec. DVB-S2 FireDTV is supported by Mediaportal but the hardware seem not to be available yet. I suppose DVB-T does not support HDTV due to limited bandwidth. [/QUOTE]

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