Press Room: Promote MediaPortal

Welcome to the MediaPortal press room, where you will find the latest press resources for anyone wishing to review or promote MediaPortal.

MediaPortal  is currently installed by over 4,000 users daily.  Even though we have done little to promote MediaPortal, our number of users has grown, simply by word of mouth, since 2004.

Today, more and more people are becoming familiar with, and interested in, HTPCs  and media center software. However, we find many users are increasingly frustrated with the limitations of other media center software. Some look pretty, but have little 'under the hood'; others are easy to set up, but limit what you can do and how you can do it.

MediaPortal is unique. It has power to spare, great looks and is easy on resources. Version 1.0 was released after five years of development, when we were sure the product was stable and included all the advanced features even the most demanding users require. Even so, MediaPortal requires about half the CPU and RAM that some other media center software require.

Press Info & Support

Here you will find all the resources to assist you - logos, graphics, screenshots plus links to existing reviews, our news releases and team blogs about what is in development.

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Media Contacts

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Sponsors and Partners

MediaPortal actively supports other open source projects.  We are closely affiliated with Sourceforge as well as a number of hardware companies who use MediaPortal to demonstrate their products. 

Market research

MediaPortal is community driven.  We conduct regular surveys of our users to identify trends, hardware configurations and features used.  This data is used to determine the direction of future development.

In future we plan to broaden our research and conduct public surveys of HTPC users.

Our impassioned users regularly provide constant feedback and improvement suggestions in our user forums to ensure our development meets future needs.

Statistics

To be honest, there is very little comparative data available to assist users in selecting HTPC software.

Our website and FAQ page have been designed to provide users and reviewers the data required to assess and evaluate MediaPortal.

We are always on the lookout for statistical data about HTPCs and media center software, so please contact us if you find any.

Become a Sponsor

There are many ways to sponsor MediaPortal, not only through financial donations, but also by donating hardware for testing, including MediaPortal in your Public Relations campaigns, or using MediaPortal for trade show or conference demonstrations. Please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you want to become an official sponsor or if you have further questions!

Financial Donations

Any company who makes a significant financial contribution to MediaPortal automatically becomes an official sponsor.  We will add your company logo to our website and promote your products to our hundreds of thousands of of website visitors and MediaPortal users.

Public Relations

Often it is difficult to promote HTPC hardware without the software that shows off its capabilities.  Why not consider a joint Public Relations campaign with MediaPortal?

You can even simply add our logo to your website, and qualify as a sponsor of MediaPortal!

Trade Shows/Demonstrations

Everyone knows how important it is to provide a top notch allluring demonstration of their products. MediaPortal excels in quality playback using hundreds of types of TV Cards, remotes or DirectShow filters. 

With our glossy, slick interface and infinite variety of features, you can attract many potential customers to your booth.  Just contact us for assistance in setting up MediaPortal for your presentation or trade show.

It is simple and easy to set up a slide show demonstration of your products using MediaPortal's Pictures feature, with a huge variety of special effects, and even a background soundtrack.

Press Info & Contact

MediaPortal Media CenterPress Contact

Interested in an interview, story, or other coverage of MediaPortal?
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Corporate Interest

Considering using MediaPortal for your project? Want to become a sponsor? We’d be happy to hear your plans.
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General Questions and Feedback

For anything not covered above, please use our contact form.  Visit the Wiki and User Forums for support issues, which cannot be answered via the contact forum or email.

Behind The Project

The vision of the MediaPortal project is to create a free open source media centre application, which supports all advanced media centre functions, and is accessible to all Windows users. In reaching this goal MediaPortal:

  • Promotes open source ideology, building on and supporting other open source projects
  • Promotes the sharing of knowledge and collaboration using information sharing tools and practices
  • Understands development is a team effort and treats users as co-developers, which has proven to be the most effective option for rapid development
  • Applies the 'Law of Diminishing Return' so the majority of effort is invested in implementing features which have the most benefit and widest general usage by the community.

The Team

With a core team of over 40 developers, plus hundreds of community developers, MediaPortal has a vast and active team who contribute their professional talents and genius to the project. It is truly open source at it's best.

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"You would not believe the rate at which this group of volunteer coders fix any bugs (mine hasn't crashed or misbehaved in weeks. Lots of weeks)"

The Community

"We don't have users, we have fans!"

What really makes MediaPortal special is our community of passionate users. Many users actively participate in development daily, from modifying and designing skins, to submitting bug reports, patches for fixes and feature enhancements. As a developer, you get over 20,000 very enthusiastic and experienced forum users all eager to test for you. As a new user, you have the same expert users ready to help and support you. And they will!

We are as proud of our users as we are of our software.

History

MediaPortal's roots lie in the XBox Media Center (XBMC) project which aimed to build a media center application for the Microsoft XBox gaming console. In the early days of the XBMC project, Erwin Beckers (also known as Frodo) concluded that there were notable limitations to the XBox platform. Mainly that it is unable to support TV cards.
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Thus, in February 2004, Erwin left the XBMC project to start a new project, now known as MediaPortal, using the more flexible and universal Microsoft Windows platform. Initially, existing code was reused from the XBMC project; but after several releases and innumerable feature enhancements, it has been almost completely redesigned.

The Future

As more and more people become familiar with the advantages of media center software, the number of MediaPortal users is growing rapidly every day. Thus, our developers are already hard at work on MediaPortal 2, a leap forward in time, to the media center of the future.

Promotional Materials

Terms of Use

The artwork provided on this page is provided only for use as part of:

  • MediaPortal Skins, tools, applications, plugins
  • Links to MediaPortal homepage
  • trade shows
  • advertising and articles in online and print magazines about MediaPortal.

Any other use is prohibited without prior permission.  Only the approved derivations below are permitted - it is forbidden to alter the shape or color of our artwork. The artwork is copyright, but can be used free of charge under the conditions listed above.

Official MediaPortal Artwork

Logos              MP1                                                                   MP2

         MP_Icon                                                          MediaPortal 2 Icon  

Download High-Resolution Version - 0.6 MB                Download High-Resolution Version - 1.2 MB


Box shot

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Banner

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Download High-Resolution Version 193.10 Kb


Logo Derivations

Derivations of the MediaPortal logo may be used only in skins designed for MediaPortal. In every other case, the official MediaPortal artwork, as above, must be used. The only derivations permitted are those below.  The white derivation may be used on any background, the blue background is just a sample.

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Promotion Material

Brochure, tri-fold

This tri-fold brochure can be used at trade shows to allow interested people to find out more about MediaPortal.

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Download images for printing - 6.29MB

 

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About The Project

The vision of the MediaPortal project is to create a free open source media centre application, which supports all advanced media centre functions, and is accessible to all Windows users.

In reaching this goal we are working every day to make sure our software is one of the best.

         

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