Media Center - no more :-(

In Denmark we have now officially dumped analog TV broadcasts. Even though this has been pretty thoroughly announced (so much so, that even my father in law who has no interest in these things what-so-ever, knew what was going to happen), it escaped Microsoft. Or rather they've chosen to ignore this and hope I will upgrade the by now old Windows XP MCE machine to Windows 7 so that I would be able to receive the new channels (oh! and the old ones too which seems to have disappeared). Well - no such luck for the guys in Seattle.

I've gone Team MediaPortal which is an open source project. It works (for the wife and the kids) pretty much the same way as MCE did. However, it did require a few long nights from my part fiddling with codecs and other strange stuff. But now we can get all the new Danish Channels (even HD), and we've got back subtitling as well (something we've had to go without in MCE). But user friendly setting up? Nah! Could have been a lot worse though, and I'm deeply thankful that a lot of people all over the world are spending time coding Team MediaPortal.