[ThePastor]

I am fairly new to XBMC, myself. Before XBMC I had tried them all. For a long time I was using Mediaportal and I liked it alot. Mostly because it ran good on my low end old system I was using for a media center. Also because it played most any video format I could throw at it.
Later, I got a good Win 7 machine with tons of memory and a couple of good video cards and was able to use it for Media. I tried the Windows Media Center program and thought that was going to be the thing to use. It looked AWESOME compared to MP.
But eventually I realized it had many shortcomings. So I went looking for something else. That's when I found XBMC in Dharma state.
This thing installed perfectly and looked amazing. Sure, it was a bit different and I had to change my way of thinking a bit with some things. I had to look some things up on the Wiki and some of it was not as intuitive as I think it could have been. But then, I had preconceived notions.
Now, I can't even remember how MP was and when my TV shows don't show up I know immediately that they were just not named correctly.
I learned how to properly name a "Special" TV show so that it shows up in the proper place. I figured out how to download subtitles "on demand" (an awesome feature!)
Basically, it did not take long for XBMC to become my new way of thinking. Downloading fanart is almost automatic, a thing that I don't think MP even does. Hell, I want to show this program off to my friends!

All of the media programs are a bit different and XBMC is by no means perfect. But as a fairly smart "novice" who is willing to tinker "some" but doesn't want to know how to skin a program so that the font is readable on my screen, XBMC is perfect for me.

I am anxiously awaiting the first full release and I applaud each and every contributor to this fine program.