Also not glynor but for mine, MC does deliver as a TV platform.
Admittedly there have been a few bumps along the way that I've been able to resolve through my own efforts with assistance from the forum and Yaobing. I've experienced and observed more than one example of the key to a problem being to determine whether the root is hardware or software. I think it's human nature to blame software first off because its the user interface.
Patience, persistence and a preparedness to try out alternate solutions do make a difference.
My top pick along these lines:
Glynor - The site is littered with threads stating "I'd like to use MediaCenter for TV but..."
is to integrate and automate the EPG function for Australia to the same standard as the US functionality.
Kudos to the J River team for providing "enabling" functionality (i.e. XMLTV) to make things happen and kudos, as well, to fellow forum contributors that have now seen my case arrive at:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=67992.msg558511#msg558511but the experience of this user:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=81875.0show that even what I think is straight forward, is not intuitive to others.
Wider reach of MC TV will depend on fundamentals such as the EPG functionality. While ever it involves more than click> Next> click> Finish, the ground level user base will continue to struggle I expect. Please don't think I'm sounding harsh because I recognise the difficulty of dealing with the multiplicity of standards that are out there on the global TV stage. I think MC wins hands down as a single media platform, on so many levels. I'm very happy that I don't have to deal with the standard product coming from Micro$oft...