Niall Ginsbourg is working on another application in the Big Screen series of Windows Media Center applications. Big Screen TV Shows doesn't sound like much at first. It monitors your recorded shows and scheduled recordings, and grabs detailed information about those shows from the internet. Yeah, that's pretty much what most PVRs do, right?
Well, Big Screen TV shows goes a lot further than that. In addition to episode data, you get cast, crew, and writer information for the series, and individual episodes. You get images letting you sort through your recorded TV shows the same way My Movies lets you sort through movies. You even get to choose from a selection of images or provide your own.
One of the nice features of Big Screen TV shows is that you'll get complete episode guide data from the web, which makes it easy to tell if you're watching episodes in order, even if they weren't broadcast in order. I've always been annoyed that most PVRs don't let you see episode numbers. This looks like a great solution, plus a whole lot more.
There's a ton of screenshots available in these two blog posts.
[via Aaron Stebner's Weblog]
1. Wow, this plugin looks really awesome. Assuming that they make the software high quality and bug free I might actually stick with Vista Media Center rather than defecting to Linux SageTV. I've always hated trying to keep track of episode numbers and seasons and this looks to do a slick job of it and the pretty pictures and show info are nice as well.
Posted at 4:25PM on Dec 13th 2006 by Chris