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This new version promises plenty of changes, as well as extras highly expected by users of HTPC. It contains the first Release Candidate MediaPortal 1.0 RC1, along with engine-TV television Server 1.0 RC1 and the first version of its tool DeployTool.

With this new tool, you can install any plugin, added, skin or TV-Server with a few mouse clicks, something that has lacked until now MediaPortal and many wanted to have.

Suspending for now the SVN releases daily until you make this final version, but then continue with the same method of testing.

As always, the goal is to win on stability, leaving aside the not-too-necessary additions and seeking compatibility, ease of use and, as I say, stability.

MediaPortal can be easily extended with extra plugins and you decide which keys you want to use for which actions
In addition, Internal support for several remote control (streamzap, MCE, redeye, WinLirc, Hauppauge, FireDTV).

MediaPortal tv server has more features:

* Showing RSS news feeds
* Read and send mail within MediaPortal
* Allow the PC automatically go to standby / hibernation and wakes it when there is a scheduled recording."; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }