I've been out of the loop for awhile with MC but have decided to give it another go with version 17. Compared to 16 which I already have, I have to say I am impressed with the improvements in MC17, especially with the TV episode listings and summaries, which wasn't possible to do with 16. With all of the work I have done on this in the past months in learning my way around with some help its getting easier to configure alot of different settings. With that said..
The only downside so far to 17 is that I have to do the "Movie/TV Info.." command for each episode of the TV series. And especially for those with 100+ episodes that can be pretty tedious time-wise (3 Stooges, TMNT, Family Guy, etc.) It would be nice to have it where you can select all the eps and have it gather all the info at one time, similar to how MCM would do it. Plus, for the original Tom and Jerry episodes (from the 40's and 50's), 17 can't seem to find the data for that either, but the info is on the TVDB website. It took alot of work to get the T&J eps to list properly in Mediabrowser (which MCM picked up with no problem) since the format for them was pretty tricky like this:
\TV Shows\Animation\Tom and Jerry\Season 1940\s1940e01.Puss Gets The Boot
TVDB has T&J's season listed by year rather than by number like most other shows.
Right now I am testing MC17 on my bedroom HTPC and may consider adding it to my laptop as well. If all goes well with it I may consider paying the $28 to upgrade. However on my i5 HTPC in the main room I will have to stick with WMC+MPC-HC for now as it uses the Ceton tuner. I figure once MC finally has Ceton tuner support and Cablecard, then I may consider changing the system to MC.
So far, so good!