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Belgacom : providing idTV/ipTV over (their own) adsl connection.

Telenet : providing analog (almost deprecated) & digital television thru cable.

There are currently three players in the television market Someone (or some company) who’s in a monopoly doesn’t seem tended to innovate much, but instead will revert to just raking in the money.

Competition : Competition results in innovation.

Price : They are mostly cheaper than the market leaders.

There are two reasons which trigger this for me: My personal preference always tends towards products of alternative vendors instead of the mainstream ones. So I had my tv tuner & my xbox for all my media needs… But being human, I still wasn’t fully satisfied. One would be able to create an integration using uPNP, but then again… it wouldn’t be “native”.

TV : There is no direct TV option in XBMC.

Therefor the software isn’t easy to obtain, as one needs (read: should) to compile it theirselves.

Legal : Microsoft isn’t too fond of the project, and it balances on the line between legal & illegal.But this setup turned out to have two disadvantages: The software I used for this was XBMC ( Xbox Media Center). The first move I made in this area was to transform my old XBOX to a media center. In the old days there was even a VCR involved… In my mind WAY TOO MANY devices! So I went looking. Then we have our hifi set for our cd’s & dvd’s, maybe even a tuner for the satellite connection. A computer for viewing those foto’s, where some media fragments and pictures are located. Has (television, pictures, movies, sound fragments,…), and think about the number of devices one needs to have.