After some days of discussing we would like you to vote on the 4:3 default skin for the release 0.3.
Choose between:

-BlueTwo  [Screenshots] 

-MCE  [Screenshots]

-MetalMedia  [Screenshots]

-Project-X  [Screenshots] 

-Project Mayhem III submitted by Harley [Screenshots]

-3DMP submitted by Vanessa [Screenshots]

 The poll will run about one week. You should not vote just for the "best looking" skin but also for usability.

Cause someone tries to manipulate the results we restarted this poll and delete all votes. As a result you need a minumin of 20 usefull forum-posts to vote. 

Follow this link to the 4:3 skin poll

We are looking to have only one default 4:3 and one 16:9 skin for the next release of MediaPortal (0.3.0).

Why are we doing this you may ask... well two reasons actually.

1. Because we wish to reduce the size of future releases.
2. For 0.3.0 we plan to have a plugin & skin updater inside MediaPortal to allow you to easily add new features and designs without searching the web page or the forums right from your couch with your remote at your fingertips.

So with this in mind we need you to choose the default skins which will be included in the forthcoming releases.

To facilitate this decision making process we'll run a poll starting next week for a 4:3 skin and the week thereafter a 16:9 poll.

What we need is for all skinners to send in some screenshots of a skin for the voting poll. The screenshots should be of Home, My Music, My Videos and My Pictures at least. Additional screenshot submissions will be accepted. Please outline the name of the skin and the author's details to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

The skinner must be committed to working on this skin up until and beyond the 0.3.0 release. If not already the winning skinner/designer will gain SVN access to implement the updates as required.

What will you win? ...well a default skin in MediaPortal of course ;-)

Note: A 'working' or 'near working' skin should be submitted which should be 0.2.0 compatible. We do not wish to receive concepts and artwork. No disrespect is intended to existing skins or skinners in this news item in any regard.

Many thanks and good luck.

Although the team is very glad that many people test current svn releases we still want to point out that nightly svn builds are NOT updates or bugfixes of any kind.

Knowing that you are all anxious about new features or to see bugfixes for the last remaining showstoppers we've decided to integrate the most important fixes into the stable 0.2 release to make it even better.

I'll still try to collect important fixes and "little feature updates" which should not break anything to provide the HTPC users which need to watch the WAF with further "appoved" updates. Please keep in mind that 0.3 development has highest priority and this update is not a new release of MP - just a little present for you ;-)

Grab the update!

Click on 'read more' to see the list of changes.