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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue Energy" data-source="post: 735784" data-attributes="member: 109162">I am very encouraged by the continuously good news coming out of this forum thread.  First a version of MP that will work with HDPVR and Colossus - and now accurate documentation too!  I must admit that I was concerned as well after going through the Wiki.  I'm surprised that most users use tuner cards rather than converters.  I would think that almost anyone using MP with HD cable or satellite would be forced to use a converter - and one presumes that would include the majority of MP-using Americans at least.  Maybe they haven't jumped on because setting it up seemed to require a large investment followed by trial and error with no assurance of eventual success.  It would seem that this may no longer be the case very soon.Doing this certainly isn't cheap, or anyway, not something one would do to avoid buying a Tivo I wouldn't think.  For me, at least, the advantage is in the control and centralization it will give me.  As I write to you from my recliner, on the 47 inch TV in my living room, I'm listening to a Hearts of Space internet radio broadcast via the same computer routed out through my stereo.  My bluray disks play back via the same machine (or, anyway, they did before I experimented with XBMC...).  Someday soon, all of my recorded music will reside on the same computer, and I'll be able to watch my current and recorded shows via the same hardware (with essentially infinite recording space) and the same software that I listen to my recorded music with and during commercials (if I even keep the commercials) I'll be able to Google player statistics or pause the program to check the weather forecast - all without leaving my seat.  And if there's a snow day from work I'll be able to code from the same chair.  I've been looking forward to that day for over ten years!By the way - I don't know if you all have noticed, but the folks over at XBMC have honored one of it's founders (Frodo) who went on to found Media Portal by naming a version of their software after him.  Pretty cool that the 'industry' is so tightly knit and communal and that the folks involved are stand-up enough to honor their competition!  You have to respect both sides of that relationship: the one for being worthy of the praise, and the other for being honorable enough to do it.  In the world we live in they are both rare commodities.</blockquote>

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