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<blockquote data-quote="Joe the Po" data-source="post: 91456" data-attributes="member: 26434">I have been trying to use mediaportal 2-3 months now. I have no TV or CD's&nbsp; or telephone anymore I gave them away thinking that mediaportal would supplant them all.My computer is 100% stable.I have an Avermedia 771 DBT (bursts into tears) so no TV.I uses skype a lot (manaics pluggin = next to useless)I have Divx and Vidx movies and use Power DVD as external player (so much easier just to use Power DVD by itself or Winamp.)The only view that is of use is the share view, All others ruined by tags from various artist CD's screwing them up. Browsing albums is sticky and oftern you click on something else too. It's like wading through treacle.After a recent update (scroll lock feature is worthy improvement) the now playing screen causes a crash so bad you gotta hardware reset. Friends who want to select music who have never seen it before all hate it.wwwitv pluggin is good but 90% of the time crashes the machine and requires CTRL ALT DEL to regain control.Weather pluggin is nice but i get a satalite map of Germany when i live in the UK.Yahoo video thingy = very good (work perfectly) but not much content.Google video and Youtube&nbsp; pluggin would be good.I really would like Mediaportal to be good, but I am gonna see if I can use photomessa as a music browser. I suggest that a new music pluggin featuring a zoomable interface on the Jeff Raskin model mayhe the ultimate in usability for media browsers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Joe the Po, post: 91456, member: 26434"] I have been trying to use mediaportal 2-3 months now. I have no TV or CD's or telephone anymore I gave them away thinking that mediaportal would supplant them all. My computer is 100% stable. I have an Avermedia 771 DBT (bursts into tears) so no TV. I uses skype a lot (manaics pluggin = next to useless) I have Divx and Vidx movies and use Power DVD as external player (so much easier just to use Power DVD by itself or Winamp.) The only view that is of use is the share view, All others ruined by tags from various artist CD's screwing them up. Browsing albums is sticky and oftern you click on something else too. It's like wading through treacle. After a recent update (scroll lock feature is worthy improvement) the now playing screen causes a crash so bad you gotta hardware reset. Friends who want to select music who have never seen it before all hate it. wwwitv pluggin is good but 90% of the time crashes the machine and requires CTRL ALT DEL to regain control. Weather pluggin is nice but i get a satalite map of Germany when i live in the UK. Yahoo video thingy = very good (work perfectly) but not much content. Google video and Youtube pluggin would be good. I really would like Mediaportal to be good, but I am gonna see if I can use photomessa as a music browser. I suggest that a new music pluggin featuring a zoomable interface on the Jeff Raskin model mayhe the ultimate in usability for media browsers. [/QUOTE]

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