I do talk about MythTV a lot but to be fair, I haven't mentioned it much here and I also haven't said a bad word about Media Center. There used to be a lot of hype surrounding MythTV a few years back because it was really the first half-decent application of its kind. Media Center was released a short time later. To date, I don't think anything else has really come close. Even though both of them have been around for a good five years now, most people are still oblivous to them, which is why I tend to talk it up.
I didn't really know much about Media Center until you posted that. Ironically, the skin I use for MythTV is based on the original Media Center and I had no idea until now. I just thought it looked nice. I looked up some comparisons. The general consensus seems to be that they're both very good but while MythTV is a fair bit harder to set up, it's more flexible and has more features. Apparently Media Center can be a bit restrictive. I'm not sure how it's restrictive exactly but I think it's along the lines of "thou shalt not transcode thy recordings in case thy share them on P2P networks." You could have predicted all that really.
What do you need? You need a digital TV card, not an analogue one. DVB-S for satellite or DVB-T for terrestrial. Don't bother with DVB-C for cable, Virgin Media is no good for this stuff. That's about it.
They started showing .hack // Sign in English last night. It seems they're now showing dubbed stuff first and subbed repeats later on so that people can choose. That's cool. I generally prefer dubbed myself.
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