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<blockquote data-quote="TVWatcher" data-source="post: 1268341" data-attributes="member: 164672">Does it?&nbsp; Then why does an on-screen keyboard pop up when entering the date format string in Settings?&nbsp; Why can everything be done with a mouse (in the WMC skin at least) except scroll the TV Guide horizontally and skip while watching TV?&nbsp;&nbsp; Why do both of the other media centre application I've tried allow everything (well, apart from text entry) to be done with the mouse?Our HTPC is a laptop that sits in the corner of the living room connected to our hi-fi and projector.&nbsp; The only time we touch it is to turn it on.&nbsp; Everything else is done from the confort of our settee using a wireless mouse, using Window's on-screen keyboard for the limited amount of text entry we perform.&nbsp; Using the keyboard on the computer is impractical because of its inaccessible position and the fact that its screen has a habit of turning completely white.We can't use one of the other media centres referred to above - one of them was Microsoft's Media Center which no longer provides EPG information and the other doesn't run on our HTPC - we tried it on a different machine - and anyway we much prefer Media Portal to that one (apart from the mouse problems...).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TVWatcher, post: 1268341, member: 164672"] Does it? Then why does an on-screen keyboard pop up when entering the date format string in Settings? Why can everything be done with a mouse (in the WMC skin at least) [I]except [/I]scroll the TV Guide horizontally and skip while watching TV? Why do both of the other media centre application I've tried allow [I]everything [/I](well, apart from text entry) to be done with the mouse? Our HTPC is a laptop that sits in the corner of the living room connected to our hi-fi and projector. The only time we touch it is to turn it on. Everything else is done from the confort of our settee using a wireless mouse, using Window's on-screen keyboard for the limited amount of text entry we perform. Using the keyboard on the computer is impractical because of its inaccessible position and the fact that its screen has a habit of turning completely white. We can't use one of the other media centres referred to above - one of them was Microsoft's Media Center which no longer provides EPG information and the other doesn't run on our HTPC - we tried it on a different machine - and anyway we much prefer Media Portal to that one (apart from the mouse problems...). [/QUOTE]

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