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<blockquote data-quote="scott_mckenzie" data-source="post: 960410" data-attributes="member: 122101">5 years ago did you install Media portal and given it a try then? Have you run MS media Centre before?The reason I ask the 2 questions is that I think you would realise how incorrect your comment is.&nbsp;I originally installed MS Media Centre at the end of 2006 and after a number of guide dramas, I installed MP. To be honest I found MP to be very basic at the time and fairly buggy so I moved back to MS media centre and tolerated the guide issues. Last year in April when I saw that MS (who just earnt almost $7b in profit) were not going to make any enhancements to Media Centre, I decided to look at alternate options and again looked at Media Portal, and I couple not have been more surprised at how much progress they have made.&nbsp;Integrated blu-ray support, and so many great plugins, as well as skins that make Media Centre look like it was from the '90s, and not only that, a reliable guide! This to me shows incredible team work from the MP team!&nbsp;Yes I have had quirks but the support here is incredible. I get responses from people like Scythe, and kiwijunglist very quickly, and what is even better is that they actually attempt to fix the issues in new releases that are only weeks away. and Also I use moving pictures and I have had to rename several movies, but that was because the naming of the files were really bad in the first place.&nbsp;On top of everything else, this is product is 100% free!&nbsp;My recommendation is if you find MP and moving pictures to be a &quot;PITA&quot;, I'm sure with your 20 years computer experience and developer skills you could enhance the plugin yourself - I'm sure the movingpictures developers would really appreciate it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="scott_mckenzie, post: 960410, member: 122101"] 5 years ago did you install Media portal and given it a try then? Have you run MS media Centre before? The reason I ask the 2 questions is that I think you would realise how incorrect your comment is. I originally installed MS Media Centre at the end of 2006 and after a number of guide dramas, I installed MP. To be honest I found MP to be very basic at the time and fairly buggy so I moved back to MS media centre and tolerated the guide issues. Last year in April when I saw that MS (who just earnt almost $7b in profit) were not going to make any enhancements to Media Centre, I decided to look at alternate options and again looked at Media Portal, and I couple not have been more surprised at how much progress they have made. Integrated blu-ray support, and so many great plugins, as well as skins that make Media Centre look like it was from the '90s, and not only that, a reliable guide! This to me shows incredible team work from the MP team! Yes I have had quirks but the support here is incredible. I get responses from people like Scythe, and kiwijunglist very quickly, and what is even better is that they actually attempt to fix the issues in new releases that are only weeks away. and Also I use moving pictures and I have had to rename several movies, but that was because the naming of the files were really bad in the first place. On top of everything else, this is product is 100% free! My recommendation is if you find MP and moving pictures to be a "PITA", I'm sure with your 20 years computer experience and developer skills you could enhance the plugin yourself - I'm sure the movingpictures developers would really appreciate it. [/QUOTE]

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