MediaCentral 2

I cannot believe I just bought the CRAP. This has got to be the buggiest piece of Comercial Software ever!!!

- IPTV - CRASH
- TV - Says I can use Terratec D-TV tuner...NOT SO!
- MOVIES - Crashes when you rewind
- DVD - Says you can save photos in the folder containing Video_TS file and that the pic will be used as a preview ...NOT SO!
- GAMES - GOT TO BE KIDDING (8 year old cellular phones have beter games)!!!
- Radio - NOT working!!!

And I paid 30 euros??? ... Even the FREEWARE 1.2.1 ver. is more stable.
CAN ANYBODY GET EVEN HALF OF THE FUNCTIONALITY TO WORK...WITHOUT CRASHING???

What a Complete letdown!!!

Media Central is great, but I won't buy without Support for EyeTV or at least the Hardware...

Also a no go from my side [5 minute demo, come on !!]

- music is annoying [other sound choices if you open preferences for the App are worse]
- Pictures [cool idea linking to Flickr, but why can't I add my own feeds/friends, is this due to the trial or due to limitations of the software]
- Trailers [where are my HD trailers, they're there on the Apple site, why can't I play them here]

-IPTV [take a video that looks horrible in a YouTube window and scale is up 400$, what do you end up with .... nothing but random pixels]


Lets get to a mature version on the product boys before you start charging.

And what's with the 5min eval mode. What can you test in 5 minutes ? plus the app takes nearly 1 min to startup..

No DD or DTS ?

Start again guys.

The demo crashed every time I tried it on my machine (PPC G5, 10.4.7), as soon as the main menu screen came up. Am I going to shell out $30 based on that? What do you think?

Wasn't version 1 free as well?

No screenshots??? WTF Mate? And no surround? To Quote the famous words of Futurama's Alcoholic robot, Bender, "YOU ARE OOUUTTAAA HERE!"

I agree that the lack of no DTS or Dolby Digital support puts this in the pretty much useless category for me. Right now the only way I know to get AC3 pass through on my intel iMac is through DVD Player or VLC. It still says they are working on adding this to a future release but I guess 2.0 wasn't what they meant by a future release.

During the 1.X series, it would prompt you at startup for what screen you wanted to start it in (with multiple monitors). I have my quad connected to my monitor and my 50" Fujitsu. This is missing in 2.0. Now I have to drag the window and then launch it fullscreen. A PAIN.

Also, the Dolby and DTS support is a major drawback.

I thought it was pretty poor myself. Cheap clone of Front Row with some extra features, hideous background music (why did they think this would be a good idea?) and it crashed after a few minutes of use.

Waste of time.

It does NOT support Dolby Digital or DTS, so if your Mac is connected to an audio/visual receiver don't expect surround sound. This is a huge oversight in my opinion. Excusable when MediaCentral was a beta app, but for $30 you MUST include surround support in a media center application.