What is it? MCL is an application thats main function is to display logos in your Windows Media Center guide. It also can enhance your guide in other ways, by minimizing dead space, increasing the number of rows in your guide, and showing/hiding/swapping channel numbers, callsigns, and logos.
Why should I download this? The MCL guide makes an HTPC one of the best DVRs out there. It's easy to navigate, easy to read, HD quality text, with customizable guide listings. But your guide can be even better! Adding logos makes channels instantly recognizable- as opposed to seeing APL- you see the Animal Planet logo. Instead of seeing WMAQ, you'll see the NBC logo. It makes navigation much better. As well, changing your guide settings will let you see more rows and more data at once. With the standard comcast DVR, you'll see four rows of channels, and one advertisement. With native WMC, you'll get six rows of channels. With MCL, you'll get up to 11 rows of channels.
How does it work? Windows 7 Media Center has always been able to accept logos, but due to copyright issues, Microsoft never included them. MCL fills in that gap, allowing you to automatically add logos through native functions within media center. The guide changes are made by editing the media center code.
What versions are there? MCL v2 Lite allows you to download logos for your region, and manually assign them one by one. MCL v2 Full version lets you automatically match logos based on our database of thousands of callsigns, as well as gives you access to guide data. The full version costs a minimum of $3.40- if you are feeling generous, you can offer $5 or $10.
I heard that MCL is consistently called one of the best add-ins for media center by multiple podcasts, technology news sites and blogs, and it should be the first thing you install on your HTPC. Is that true? Why yes, yes it is. You must be very smart.
Download My Channel Logos Version 2 here!
