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<blockquote data-quote="Bascombe" data-source="post: 179472" data-attributes="member: 13860">Having spent the last couple of hours monkeying around with mediaportal, I'm more keen than ever to start moving towards using it. The addition of the screen selector function was the thing that piqued my interest - the ability to have mediaportal running full screen on one monitor while the pc is used for other things is kind of an essential feature for me. So, I duly broke out my old svideo cable and hooked up the radeon 9600 to my tv, and was up and running in no time. The interface itself looks great, but one of the things I've always found most appealing about mediaportal was the sophistication of the tv functionality. In comparison, tvedia 3.5 looks quite primitive, with a damn ugly epg. But until such time as I can afford a new telly (and perhaps even then, for a time), use of the xcard remains a must. The difference in picture quality between it, and video over svideo from the radeon is very noticeable. So, I'm bumping this thread once again (*bump*), in the hope that there's still some room to consider fully supporting the xcard. I'm sure there are still many folk out there using it, and with full integration of it mediaportal could take one more step along the road to being the ultimate htpc software.So please, pretty please, with sugar and a quad core athlon on top, support the xcard fully!Cheers,Bascombe</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bascombe, post: 179472, member: 13860"] Having spent the last couple of hours monkeying around with mediaportal, I'm more keen than ever to start moving towards using it. The addition of the screen selector function was the thing that piqued my interest - the ability to have mediaportal running full screen on one monitor while the pc is used for other things is kind of an essential feature for me. So, I duly broke out my old svideo cable and hooked up the radeon 9600 to my tv, and was up and running in no time. The interface itself looks great, but one of the things I've always found most appealing about mediaportal was the sophistication of the tv functionality. In comparison, tvedia 3.5 looks quite primitive, with a damn ugly epg. But until such time as I can afford a new telly (and perhaps even then, for a time), use of the xcard remains a must. The difference in picture quality between it, and video over svideo from the radeon is very noticeable. So, I'm bumping this thread once again (*bump*), in the hope that there's still some room to consider fully supporting the xcard. I'm sure there are still many folk out there using it, and with full integration of it mediaportal could take one more step along the road to being the ultimate htpc software. So please, pretty please, with sugar and a quad core athlon on top, support the xcard fully! Cheers, Bascombe [/QUOTE]

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