iTheater RC1 is available

This is terrible! they let the apple users down and make the window users laugh! They are a terrible team! It kills my computer, it crashed many times on my new IBook. I am so mad at them. I sent them the bug and they just find some stupid guy from what"system support and services" to answer my question. And he was so mean and stupid. His answer doesn't make any sense at all. They are so retarded! never never use this piece of crap!

BTW... it doesn't work with 10.3.9 despite them saying it does :(

Gyneric: "and I'll tell you that it looks better than any media center out there, on any platform. (they have since taken this document down because there were too many changes and they didnt have time to update it)"

So, this is the best media center out there? Or it was when that PDF was released which has since been pulled because it's not accurate?

It's definately not a RC1 status worthy program. I'd say this looks more like we dont want people to think we aren't doing ANYTHING, so we'll release this piece of software which is almost totally functionless to prove them wrong.

I hope that someday it gets finished and polished and offers a great media center experience but i'm not holding my breath based on what i'm seeing here.

Not ready for prime time.

Some things arn't there for the app. It seems it's trying too much to replace Frontrow, but it's just not there. Customization would be a real plus, because I for one isn't a fan of that shade of blue. Other thing's I don't like about the app is that the weather 'widget' has its own menu, it should have a hot key to link it into the media screen. It's strange to say the least you can't just hit enter to play media (you gota press 'P') plus there isn't a little preview window. It would also be nice to go though folders inside the menu system, I have a folder inside Movies where I would place files, but inside iTheater I can't go into that folder, it simply tells me that 'This isn't a movie file!'.
I can see where the program is comming from and I see a lot of improvement to come, even when the basic media is added.
One more thing, My full first name is Francis (du'h), with mostly everything I use (Bar OSX itself) I'm told that this is 'Francis's Folder'! It just kinda peeves me off.
Oh well :-), I won't be replacing front row or iTunes/Quicktime/iPhoto/Weather.com JUST yet.

Yes, you can change the background image. refer to the post here: http://forums.itheaterproject.com/showthread.php?t=265&highlight=background

A lot of us itheater fans have been waiting a very long time for this app because we like the ideas the developers have. they actually used to have a pdf that gave a preview of what to expect from itheater, and I'll tell you that it looks better than any media center out there, on any platform. (they have since taken this document down because there were too many changes and they didnt have time to update it) These guys have the right idea, implementation is just a little slow right now because I'm sure developers with busy lives and day jobs find it hard to meet deadlines for open source software.

Sometimes I wonder if anyone at TUAW ever actually looks at the things they read about this app is a great example. It does nothing, it looks awful and its strange.

in the forums it tells you how you can reskin the entire interface

lol, it took them a year, with six programmers, to release something that really doesn't do anything. Why is this front page news?

Yawn. I can understand the delays and whatnot, but please can we stop hyping a product that can still be considered vaporware? MediaCentral is all that iTheater will be and a bag of cookies. And man, those cookies are fully baked and ready to eat.