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Great news for Media Center fans!  Yesterday Microsoft announced that it will be opening up the CableCARDⁱ system so that anyone can add a CableCARD tuner to their Windows 7 system.  While this isn't everything that we want from Media Center, it has renewed my excitement for the platform.

I have been doing some maintenance and updates to the backend services for Media Center Guides.  You should notice the site is much faster; I also fixed a bug that was causing the RSS feeds to break, so welcome back to all who are subscribed.  Sorry for the inconvenience.  Things should be running much better now.  This has also helped pave the way for several new features coming over the next month.  Stay tuned.

Hosting isn't free, and it takes a lot of time to add and test new features and content for the site (and I have a lot more planned), so if you can help that would be great!

No, I'm not asking for donations, but don't let that stop you if you are so inclined.  :)

Here is a short list of ways you can help:

I've redone the Registry Tweaks section of the site.  It should now be much easier to navigate through the various registry entries to find what you are looking for.  It is also much easier for users to add new registry entries, and you can make comments about any of the registry tweaks individually. 

Check out the new Registry Tweaks page HERE.

We've just added an Applications section to Media Center Guides.  This section features a list of many of the available plugins for Windows Media Center.  After you login (using either OpenID, or by creating a new account) you can rate your favorite applications, leave comments about them, or even have us host your Media Center application for you.

Check out the Media Center Application listing HERE.

Get started rating your feature requests here.

I started a Feature Requests thread over a year ago at The Green Button here: http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/191773.aspx Since that time the thread has grown to be quite long, as has the request list.  Recently several Microsoft employees have become more active on that thread, and people are asking about polling options again. 

Welcome to the new Media Center Guides website!

I've decided to give up on MediaWiki and change this site over to Drupal. MediaWiki is a neat program, but I found it to be lacking in a few areas that I thought would benefit this site.  I really like how customizable Drupal is and I think the change will work better for the long run.