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If you had invested 5 minutes of time to read the manual (aka Wiki) you've had known that you can't install MediaPortal (or any other TV Software I know of, incl WMC) without internet connection, at least part time internet connection always is needed..

This is a huge error by design. Even WMC can't work or install without any internet connection. At least you had connection while you've installed Windows (and with it WMC) on the system (or someone else did for you). The Media PC needs to download not only dependencies during installation but also metadata for movies, series and music, grabs your weather forecast, your news feeds,... and even the TV guide is downloaded from the internet on a regularly base. WMC downloads the guide from a service hosted by Microsoft. And as Microsoft don't send their data via snail mail you need an internet connection for WMC too...

A Media PC without internet is a completely no go... It's like using a muscle car without fuel only by pushing it...

If you only want to watch Live- TV you better buy yourself a Smart- TV or a Tivo or so. A PC is too noisy and power consuming only for watching TV. In modern HTPC software packages watching TV only is a small part of all features. Indeed classical TV is getting less and less important to most users...

By the way, MediaPortal is the most easy to configure TV software available today excerpt for some tools delivered with TV tuner cards. You may try other tools (like TVHeadend, wish you good luck) but you will find them more complicated to setup, I'm sure...

<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1244224" data-attributes="member: 109222">Hi.If you had invested 5 minutes of time to read the manual (aka Wiki) you've had known that you can't install MediaPortal (or any other TV Software I know of, incl WMC) without internet connection, at least part time internet connection always is needed.. This is a huge error by design. Even WMC can't work or install without any internet connection. At least you had connection while you've installed Windows (and with it WMC) on the system (or someone else did for you). The Media PC needs to download not only dependencies during installation but also metadata for movies, series and music, grabs your weather forecast, your news feeds,... and even the TV guide is downloaded from the internet on a regularly base. WMC downloads the guide from a service hosted by Microsoft. And as Microsoft don't send their data via snail mail you need an internet connection for WMC too... A Media PC without internet is a completely no go... It's like using a muscle car without fuel only by pushing it...If you only want to watch Live- TV you better buy yourself a Smart- TV or a Tivo or so. A PC is too noisy and power consuming only for watching TV. In modern HTPC software packages watching TV only is a small part of all features. Indeed classical TV is getting less and less important to most users...By the way, MediaPortal is the most easy to configure TV software available today excerpt for some tools delivered with TV tuner cards. You may try other tools (like TVHeadend, wish you good luck) but you will find them more complicated to setup, I'm sure...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1244224, member: 109222"] Hi. If you had invested 5 minutes of time to read the manual (aka Wiki) you've had known that you can't install MediaPortal (or any other TV Software I know of, incl WMC) without internet connection, at least part time internet connection always is needed.. This is a huge error by design. Even WMC can't work or install without any internet connection. At least you had connection while you've installed Windows (and with it WMC) on the system (or someone else did for you). The Media PC needs to download not only dependencies during installation but also metadata for movies, series and music, grabs your weather forecast, your news feeds,... and even the TV guide is downloaded from the internet on a regularly base. WMC downloads the guide from a service hosted by Microsoft. And as Microsoft don't send their data via snail mail you need an internet connection for WMC too... A Media PC without internet is a completely no go... It's like using a muscle car without fuel only by pushing it... If you only want to watch Live- TV you better buy yourself a Smart- TV or a Tivo or so. A PC is too noisy and power consuming only for watching TV. In modern HTPC software packages watching TV only is a small part of all features. Indeed classical TV is getting less and less important to most users... By the way, MediaPortal is the most easy to configure TV software available today excerpt for some tools delivered with TV tuner cards. You may try other tools (like TVHeadend, wish you good luck) but you will find them more complicated to setup, I'm sure... [/QUOTE]