[Squirrelking]

To add my 2p (think theres about 12p's woth now):

I first came into contact with XBMC after buying an XBOX for the sole purpose of turning into a media centre a little over a year and a half ago. Since then it's worked perfectly for me and I have little to compalin about other than whats already been highlighted. I know lots of folk with a redundant XBOX gathering dust in a corner that would probably benefit from XBMC but just don't realise it's potential. Anyone who's ever used it has got it within seconds and worked it without difficulty (apart from streaming from sodding vista)

Now however I have a new problem to add to the mix. I'm shortly moving to a non cable supported area (projected installation ~2011!) and with the advent of on demand TV and such I need a media centre that will support this. The XBOX will do limited BBCiPlayer and ITV catchup but 4od is a non starter, similar story with my Wii which needs a 500pt browser download anyway. I want my media box to act as a torrent downloader (that myself and my other half can both can run easily), support the evil DRM and have easy support for hard drive upgrades and such without spending a few days messing about with FTP, obscure file systems and such. Yes I'm lazy but we don't all have the time to devote to XBOX and with a 1.4 atom dual core mini-ITX mainboard costing a shade over £70 a more powerful lump that will run XP is an attractive option for a lot of people.

That all said, the XBOX is and always will be the roots of XBMC and at the minimum it should be maintained on a "care and maintenance" basis for the undoubtly vast amount of users who still use it. However full scale support has to stop at some point whilst the team dedicate themselves to other platforms and the development of XBMC.