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<blockquote data-quote="erichzann" data-source="post: 1077829" data-attributes="member: 116360">HiI have no doubt that they both have strengths and weaknesses and don't get me wrong I am really looking forward to MP2 landing and its great to hear that you have plans for adding in additional features,I suppose it's just a question of whether the native solution will ever catch up given that MB3 already has native apps for all devices and also supports chromecast, transcoding support, profiles (which I see as crucial for a HTPC), disc art, eBooks etc and I assume that MB3 are on a pretty aggressive dev path as well. They certainly seem to be with the XBMC plugin arriving as well.Once a MB3 plugin is released for MP2 then it will certainly be a challenge to keep up with their feature set. In many ways I suspect it will be like the MP1 Videos Section vs. Moving Pictures vs. My Films.Also, the fact that I can just use MB3 through the web browser without installing a client is also great. I have no doubt they will add live tv soon - they already have MCE and NextPVR plugins.Import times don't worry me too much as this is normally a one time hit for the first import - mine was super quick but I download artwork using ember - and then store the artwork and xml locally so next time it is instant I don't have the experience of the low power server as I am running quite a few tv cards to multiple clients so have a fairly powerful server.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="erichzann, post: 1077829, member: 116360"] Hi I have no doubt that they both have strengths and weaknesses and don't get me wrong I am really looking forward to MP2 landing and its great to hear that you have plans for adding in additional features, I suppose it's just a question of whether the native solution will ever catch up given that MB3 already has native apps for all devices and also supports chromecast, transcoding support, profiles (which I see as crucial for a HTPC), disc art, eBooks etc and I assume that MB3 are on a pretty aggressive dev path as well. They certainly seem to be with the XBMC plugin arriving as well. Once a MB3 plugin is released for MP2 then it will certainly be a challenge to keep up with their feature set. In many ways I suspect it will be like the MP1 Videos Section vs. Moving Pictures vs. My Films. Also, the fact that I can just use MB3 through the web browser without installing a client is also great. I have no doubt they will add live tv soon - they already have MCE and NextPVR plugins. Import times don't worry me too much as this is normally a one time hit for the first import - mine was super quick but I download artwork using ember - and then store the artwork and xml locally so next time it is instant I don't have the experience of the low power server as I am running quite a few tv cards to multiple clients so have a fairly powerful server. [/QUOTE]

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