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I think the approach of two sepparate products is great. An example: the stupid solution with a VHS built into a Television Set. Extremely annoying to deliver your television for repair because your VHS broke. Extremely annoying to look at that obsolete VHS-player that is stuck in your TV long after you bought a DVD-player...
In other words:
Separate pricing, separate upgrades, the freedom to choose. Good choice!
I have been less than satisfied with my configuration and possibilities in myHTPC. I have been looking forward to a product like BeyondMedia.
However, after some more configurations, a change to Zoom Player as the playback application, a change to J River Media Center as the music handling application and integration to my PocketPC through NetRemote things have changed.
Beyond media has to be _really_ amazing to beat my current system.
So, I am glad I have the possibility to benefit from the excellent PVR-functionallity of BeyondTV and still have the freedom to choose other components to run my music, video archive etc...
_eirikso
PS. Still looking forward to the release of BeyondMedia. If it supports metadata-files with content from IMDB for the movie archive, the ability to crop movie playback on the fly while playing, plugins like a simple web-browser, weather, news reader etc... I will consider it.
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