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« on: 02 January 2022, 16:15:38 »
One of my tasks for my time off between Xmas and NY was to find a suitable replacement for Microsoft's long abandoned Media Center, which most of you will know has been my device of choice to sit under the telly to deal with everything TV related. Well, actually, the search began a couple of years back, by getting a Humax TV recorder and a gay-ray player.
Well, the Humax is just about dead now - not that I mind, because it was shite really.
So a concerted effort to find a replacement PC based solution.
So, hear is the summary of all my trials:
Kodi: Shite
Plex: Expensive and Shite
Media Portal 2: OK but unreliable
MythTV: Didn't support my tuners
Win 8.1 Media Center: "Just works"
So after several days, I'm back where I started, and still using a product that got its last update over 13 years ago.
I think Win8.1 goes out of support in early 2023, so I guess I'll either have to do it all again next year in the hope something has improved, or just yank the network cable out of the back of the damn thing next year, and all streaming will have to be via another device.