As some of you have surely noticed, we recently launched a new feature: Media Center Edition Plugin Spotlight. Although we are currently only focusing on MCE plugins, there are a lot of other homebrew PVR solutions which also support plugins.
On that note, Tom's Hardware has a put together a nice, little six page article that highlights 13 official plugins for MythTV.
MythTV for those who may not know is by many accounts the leading software for a free, do-it-yourself PVR solution. Although it may be a little more complicated to set up than other PVR solutions (due in large to the fact that it is Linux based), it is still one of the most developed and versatile packages out there.
Some of the plugins showcased include MythDVD (a DVD ripping and playback solution), MythNews (a RSS aggregator) and MythWeather (a plugin that displays weather forecasts, similar to MCEWeather which we spotlighted last week).
It's quite nice to see that a lot of the software based PVR solutions allow for development from the community. Because of this development we are given options to not only add to the software, but we are also given the opportunity to turn our PVRs into true media centers.
