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Why 'Everything else is just a media center"
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<blockquote data-quote="dir" data-source="post: 771686" data-attributes="member: 24485"><p>The slogan immediately makes me think, "uh, ok, so what's a Media >Portal< as opposed to a media >center<?"</p><p></p><p>A Portal, in IT terms, to me means it's a front-end gateway to other information. So that leads to the question, "What's the differentiation between MCE (etc.) and MP?", which is</p><p></p><p>- access to global information - news, weather, sports reports, forums</p><p>- connect to people through 2-way social networking (not just passively reading, for instance) - send/receive phone calls, send/receive tweets, etc.</p><p>- share your tv, movie, and music interests with a greater community (trakt.tv, Scrobbling, etc.)</p><p>- play games (I have Hyperspin configured as a menu item but there's My Emulators as well)</p><p>- review what's on in the cinemas/theatres in your neighborhood</p><p>- view your movie collection and preview trailers and actor information</p><p>- watch web video and shows from around the world (youtube, hell, even porn)</p><p>- view your TV collection PROPERLY (my pet peeve - media centers that consider movies, TV shows, and home videos are all simply "VIDEO". ARGGFRICKIN ARGH </p><p></p><p>ahem</p><p></p><p></p><p>(And one day, fingers crossed, we'll finally be able to browse trailers, tag them, and queues them up in a list ready for other applications to use for later retrieval)</p><p></p><p>I will add one caveat, though. Everyone that's ever seen my MP setup and decides they want it in their home has no idea how much work is involved in the setup and upkeep. MP is still very much the domain of the techies. Sure, you can simply run the basic MP with the default skin and one or two built-in functions, but nobody wants that. They want the full experience. And that takes a LOT of understanding of computers.</p><p>So I'm not really keen on promoting MP to anyone any more - it just disappoints them when they discover what's involved behind the scenes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dir, post: 771686, member: 24485"] The slogan immediately makes me think, "uh, ok, so what's a Media >Portal< as opposed to a media >center<?" A Portal, in IT terms, to me means it's a front-end gateway to other information. So that leads to the question, "What's the differentiation between MCE (etc.) and MP?", which is - access to global information - news, weather, sports reports, forums - connect to people through 2-way social networking (not just passively reading, for instance) - send/receive phone calls, send/receive tweets, etc. - share your tv, movie, and music interests with a greater community (trakt.tv, Scrobbling, etc.) - play games (I have Hyperspin configured as a menu item but there's My Emulators as well) - review what's on in the cinemas/theatres in your neighborhood - view your movie collection and preview trailers and actor information - watch web video and shows from around the world (youtube, hell, even porn) - view your TV collection PROPERLY (my pet peeve - media centers that consider movies, TV shows, and home videos are all simply "VIDEO". ARGGFRICKIN ARGH ahem (And one day, fingers crossed, we'll finally be able to browse trailers, tag them, and queues them up in a list ready for other applications to use for later retrieval) I will add one caveat, though. Everyone that's ever seen my MP setup and decides they want it in their home has no idea how much work is involved in the setup and upkeep. MP is still very much the domain of the techies. Sure, you can simply run the basic MP with the default skin and one or two built-in functions, but nobody wants that. They want the full experience. And that takes a LOT of understanding of computers. So I'm not really keen on promoting MP to anyone any more - it just disappoints them when they discover what's involved behind the scenes. [/QUOTE]
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