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<blockquote data-quote="LJG" data-source="post: 1139018" data-attributes="member: 120269">Hi, I also use a mixture of existing Windows PC's as extenders for MediaPortal, mostly recycled when machines have upgrades. One of the massive advantages over WMC and xbox's is that you can have the exact same experience from the extenders as you do from the main machine - no limitations on file types. In fact when I move house I will have one big server in a loft room, acting as both tv and file server, and only small NUC's or similar attached to each TV in the house.A tip with software - if you use the MP TV Series and Moving Pictures plug-ins with Trakt, then Trakt will update all of your watched / unwatched flags across all the machines. Additionally it will save the resume time on Films and TV Series, so you can start watching something on one machine, then stop it and resume it on another machine.Another advantage is that each machine acts as a back up - so if you have a hard drive failure for example on one of the devices, everything will be backed up on another device.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LJG, post: 1139018, member: 120269"] Hi, I also use a mixture of existing Windows PC's as extenders for MediaPortal, mostly recycled when machines have upgrades. One of the massive advantages over WMC and xbox's is that you can have the exact same experience from the extenders as you do from the main machine - no limitations on file types. In fact when I move house I will have one big server in a loft room, acting as both tv and file server, and only small NUC's or similar attached to each TV in the house. A tip with software - if you use the MP TV Series and Moving Pictures plug-ins with Trakt, then Trakt will update all of your watched / unwatched flags across all the machines. Additionally it will save the resume time on Films and TV Series, so you can start watching something on one machine, then stop it and resume it on another machine. Another advantage is that each machine acts as a back up - so if you have a hard drive failure for example on one of the devices, everything will be backed up on another device. [/QUOTE]

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