2009-12-26, 21:25
I gotta agree with everyone else on this.
You -CAN- do this with other software, but why? Install it & give it a roll, I think you'll be extremely impressed.
XBMC is beautiful & once set up exceptionally easy to navigate with the remote.
For TV, depending on your location/tuner type, there are many options. I use MythTV & an HD-Homerun for ATSC broadcasts, but I still end up going back to the native myth frontend client more often then not :-(.... Though the Myth integration in XBMC keeps growing by leaps & bounds, for ME, it's 'not there yet' (though many are using it & loving it). I'm extremely excited about the PVR branch & myth:// library integration for TV that seem to be on the near-ish horizon.
I've been using XBMC since it was XBMP, and it's amazing to me how it never fails to get better with every release!
-Rupert
You -CAN- do this with other software, but why? Install it & give it a roll, I think you'll be extremely impressed.
XBMC is beautiful & once set up exceptionally easy to navigate with the remote.
For TV, depending on your location/tuner type, there are many options. I use MythTV & an HD-Homerun for ATSC broadcasts, but I still end up going back to the native myth frontend client more often then not :-(.... Though the Myth integration in XBMC keeps growing by leaps & bounds, for ME, it's 'not there yet' (though many are using it & loving it). I'm extremely excited about the PVR branch & myth:// library integration for TV that seem to be on the near-ish horizon.
I've been using XBMC since it was XBMP, and it's amazing to me how it never fails to get better with every release!
-Rupert