A Weather tool shows the latest conditions and forecasts for the temperatures you define. You also get a powerful radio module, which supports all your favourite stations (FM, DVB or internet stream). MediaPortal can organise and play your music collection, too, as well as browsing your digital photos, or displaying selected images in a slideshow. Not only will it play every DVD or movie that you can view in Media Player, for instance, but the program is also able to store their details in a media database, automatically retrieving relevant video art and other information from the Internet Movie Database. If you're more interested in your own music or video collection then MediaPortal doubles as a very capable media player. And if they're on at some inconvenient time, then a host of recording options (record once, record now, daily, weekly, or every time a particular programme appears) will ensure that you don't miss a thing.

Support for all the main TV guides makes it easy to spot your favourite programmes. The program can pause, rewind and generally time-shift live TV. MediaPortal is an open-source media centre application that comes packed with ways to keep you entertained.ĭoes your PC have a TV tuner, for instance? MediaPortal supports many different types: analogue, DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S and ATSC, even multiple tuners in the same system.

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