I would like to report an interesting experience with MC , TM3.5 and TV reception in Italy. The TV signal is fed to a DVB-T USB stick. From the beginning I faced a lot of problems, It was not easy to make this configuration workable since I had no previous experience on digital TV technology. After the usual trial and Error period and with some help from the Forum I managed to get access to Italian TV channels and radio. I am not watching much TV, some major channels were not accessible ( RAI 1, RAI 2, RAI 3) so the use of the TV panel in MC was minimal.
Six months passed and .. I decided to install the DVB-T software (TM 3.5). To tell you guys the truth .. I saw the light !!! I mean the way the whole TV installation process was done was easy, intuitive and above all I realized that I had access to more channels than before. If I need to watch TV, I hate to admit it, I prefer TM over our MC !!
The Issue here is simplicity ... I am making this post to raise a voice of the novice users who need simple solutions to simple tasks. I know that it is very important to be able to do a lot of things but I believe we can have both. What I am proposing to Matt and the other MC software developers is a layered solution, where each user can decide which level of complexity and tolls can have at his / her disposal. Eventually I am sure that we can all move to deeper layers of the program.. but this takes lots of time.
I am hoping that in version 18 we will be able to access various tasks with different levels of complexity, at least in the OSx version !!!