Recorded TV HD who's using it?

What do you mean by "spice up.."?

I am using RecordedTV HD (on the last few days of the 30 day free trial) and it certainly cleans up your recordings display compared to the standard WMC offering.

Pro's:
nice artwork and backdrops for most programmes
tidy folder structure similar to Mediabrowser
easy to use

Con's:
no artwork for some non-series (one off) recordings
no add recording feature from menu (so no search on keyword etc)
cost - $19.99

I had hoped I could hide the WMC TV menu strip and just use the RecordedTV one to make it family friendly but I have ended up with both because of a few missing bits. Having said that I do tend to use the RecordedTV HD menu more than the WMC one. It has a 30 day free trial so give it a go and see how you get on with it.

Like the OP i wanted something to "spice up" the appearance of my recorded shows and found recorded tv hd to do everything I wanted. I was looking for something similiar to mediabrowser and this works.

I was happy enough to purchase it and haven't regretted it since.
Although it can be buggy (i've got mine setup so that when i hit the "recorded tv" button on my harmony it goes directly to the recorded tv hd list) it sometimes will not respond to the button command. But this has been rare and few and far between.

As for searching for new programs to record...I usually either go to the "schedule" tab under recorded tv hd or I'll just go to the guide and move to whatever day and time, if I'm searching for a particular program.

I would recommend it if you're looking for something similiar to mediabrowser interface.

Hope this helps.

I tried it but found it to be a bit buggy and prone to crashing. Newer versions may have improved this however.

I tried it out and ended up not liking it too much. At first I did. But it just had an unpolished feeling and I didn't think it was worth the money.

I use the hide menu strip application but because RecordedTV HD only gives me 90% of the functionality of the native WMC TV I keep both. I now have 3 days of the trial left before deciding and last night cleared out a lot of recordings I have never (or will ever) get around to watching. As a result I am left with about four 'folders' so it probably means I will not bother with purchasing. It is a good application if you have dozens of recordings you want to keep or have not watched as they are neatly indexed but if you watch and delete stuff maybe this is not for you. I have spotted a couple of bugs but they came and went so it has been stable for me but then I only have a few recordings.

Just checked this out. Wow! Pretty awesome stuff. Seems like a big improvement over the default recorded tv menu. I haven't encountered any issues yet. Is there some way to edit favorites from within WMC though?

I will have to check this out as it looks and seems like it functions much better than the default WMC crappy interface.

I love it. BTW, I think the 19.99 price is just for the month of April, then it goes back to 39.99.

Never tired this one and thinking to try it. It looks like it is a MyMovies but for TV shows.

Was it successfully uninstalled the product and without any problem afterward?

I tried it for a while and liked it, but not well enough to buy it. I could find poster art for the vast majority of the shows I recorded and could usually find fan art for everything else. The thing is, I don't stockpile a lot of TV shows if I can help it and tend to delete them immediately after viewing to make room for future recordings. The result was a relatively sparse window of TV poster art.

I found that I actually preferred using the WMC list view as it allowed me to see most of my recordings at a single glance rather than having to identify the cover art for each show. I also prefer to have my recordings in chronological order rather than grouped by title, unless I have an archive of shows that I haven't watched yet such as an older TV series I acquired via torrent sites. I'll usually have them stored on my server rather than in my Recorded TV folder anyway. Besides, XBMC gets me all the poster art I need for archived shows and movies.

You can do all of the things you described with recordedtvhd. I like the list view myself.

I just downloaded and I like it a lot. Not sure if I want to pay $20 for it but I just might. I didn't even know this program existed.

Same here and I tried it last night and it works quite well. Few options that I wanted did not have it in the released version and I ended up taking the Beta a try and able to achieve what I want now.

The only thing I need now is I want to able to jump to the recorded tv hd screen when my HTPC wake up or reboot since we want to start to play one of those Recorded TV shows. If anyone know how to do that, please share. Thanks.

Your timing is a bit late. It was 1/2 off in April. I bought it and am currently using the beta version. It works really well for my purposes, but I'm not using extenders, or commercial skip function nor am I using it for movies (TV or otherwise) - just for TV series. The author is responsive to suggestions (within the limits of the Media Center interface) but as to whether it's worth $20 is up to you.

As to a sparse view because you don't stockpile shows, I keep a dummy SD version of each show on my harddrive so the artwork is available. You could probably even use any small .avi file, just name it appropriately - doesn't take up much room.

I just found out about this as well. I took the plunge with the $9.99 April special.

I'm now on day 3. Thought so far:

- Much, much prettier than the standard view
- Something I could never get WMC to do: group by show with newest recordings 1st. Very happy RTVHD does this.
- Crashed once. So far, just once.
- I could see the favorites becoming a great feature
- Still undecided about the commercial skip indicators. It's nice to see, but
a) I wish it wasn't blood red. Perhaps a more subtle color yet still visible?
b) The slight flicker to your MC background is somewhat annoying. Not a dealbreaker, but reminds you this is a hack and not a feature, per se.
- As someone else mentioned, for those shows w/o a background, it's unfortunate how bare the screen is (list view). I know you can add your own backdrops, but I wish there was some default picture rather than nothing. Sort of like a website's 404 error. Custom messages are less disruptive than the stock browser error.
- Changing the Recorded TV button worked fine for me.

If the app weren't on sale for $9.99, I probably wouldn't have done it. But I did, so far I'm pretty happy with it.

I downloaded, installed and bought it last night and so far I really like it and the wife does too!

Try the beta version if you feel comfortable. It gives few more options and you can change all the settings from the WMC now.

Is there a link somewhere to this plugin?

The point is that I can already do it with Media Center, so why would I need an extra app that I have to pay for to do the same thing?

Has the beta been stable?

Release: http://www.recordedtvhd.com/download...dTVHDSetup.msi
Beta: http://www.recordedtvhd.com/download...dTVHDSetup.msi


If I may, yes WMC can do most of that but this app will be able to dress up the Recorded TV shows nicely with more info. I look at this is the add on and sort of the MyMovies version of the Recorded TV for me.


I've been using only for few days and I have zero problem so far. No crash and actually it is pretty fast and smooth to me.

You suggested that you were unable to do those things with recordedtvhd. I was informing people that you can in fact do all of the things plus have the benefits of the more eye pleasing interface that recordedtvhd provides.