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I have to agree with a lot of other uses who mention the EPG being the most difficult part. Until this zap2it plugin came along it was pretty difficult to get it downloaded (and automated). The TV part of MediaPortal is by far the most important part of the program, IMO. When you start configuring MP in the wizard, it should ask you your location (and thereby determine whether you can use zap2it, webEPG, or xmltv), and then give you your recommended EPG options (like zap2it plugin for the USA). After this the user should be prompted to take the necessary steps to get the epg working properly (i.e. create a zap2it account). With a zap2it account you don't need to autotune your channels so that can be skipped, and with the others I think an autotune is necessary, so those steps would branch off to do that. It's a bit of setup in the beginning, yes, but ultimately having all that information up front to get it working correctly will make their first experience running MP a positive one. So after all the setup wizardry is done, the user can just launch MP and boom, their epg gets downloaded, and boom, they can pick their tv program.

<blockquote data-quote="Noelix" data-source="post: 86614" data-attributes="member: 18535"><p>I have to agree with a lot of other uses who mention the EPG being the most difficult part. Until this zap2it plugin came along it was pretty difficult to get it downloaded (and automated).&nbsp; The TV part of MediaPortal is by far the most important part of the program, IMO.&nbsp; When you start configuring MP in the wizard, it should ask you your location (and thereby determine whether you can use zap2it, webEPG, or xmltv), and then give you your recommended EPG options (like zap2it plugin for the USA).&nbsp; After this the user should be prompted to take the necessary steps to get the epg working properly (i.e. create a zap2it account).&nbsp; With a zap2it account you don't need to autotune your channels so that can be skipped, and with the others I think an autotune is necessary, so those steps would branch off to do that.&nbsp; It's a bit of setup in the beginning, yes, but ultimately having all that information up front to get it working correctly will make their first experience running MP a positive one.&nbsp; So after all the setup wizardry is done, the user can just launch MP and boom, their epg gets downloaded, and boom, they can pick their tv program.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Noelix, post: 86614, member: 18535"] I have to agree with a lot of other uses who mention the EPG being the most difficult part. Until this zap2it plugin came along it was pretty difficult to get it downloaded (and automated). The TV part of MediaPortal is by far the most important part of the program, IMO. When you start configuring MP in the wizard, it should ask you your location (and thereby determine whether you can use zap2it, webEPG, or xmltv), and then give you your recommended EPG options (like zap2it plugin for the USA). After this the user should be prompted to take the necessary steps to get the epg working properly (i.e. create a zap2it account). With a zap2it account you don't need to autotune your channels so that can be skipped, and with the others I think an autotune is necessary, so those steps would branch off to do that. It's a bit of setup in the beginning, yes, but ultimately having all that information up front to get it working correctly will make their first experience running MP a positive one. So after all the setup wizardry is done, the user can just launch MP and boom, their epg gets downloaded, and boom, they can pick their tv program. [/QUOTE]