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About XHub


XHub Media Center is your full screen home theater. Its fast, feature-rich and highly customizable, yet amazingly easy to use. Connect your Mac running XHub to your living room TV, and enjoy all of your digital entertainment on the big screen from the comfort of your sofa. With XHub you can listen to music, podcasts and Internet radio, view photo slideshows, play DVDs, read news feeds, surf the web, watch live and recorded digital TV, enjoy theatrical trailers, movies of most formats, video podcasts, music videos and TV shows - and you can control it all with a single remote. Whether this be your Apple remote, ATI remote, Keyspan remote, cell phone or PDA.

Key features:
Complete control
With XHub, you can set the rating of a song, toggle a playlist's shuffle and repeat mode, skip to an upcoming song or even wipe it from the playlist, take screen shots at any time, and much, much more...

Virtual keyboard
With XHub, browsing menus is quick and easy. Simply type a few letters on the virtual keyboard to jump right to the menu item of your choice. No need to scroll through thousands of artists to find that ZZ Top evergreen! You can also scroll through menus quickly with the left/right button on your remote, skipping ten items per click.

Skinnable interface
XHub has more than twenty elegant interfaces that you can change to as often as you like, with ease. You can even design your own skins! You can also choose from a variety of sound effects.

Eye TV support
With XHub and Eye TV by Elgato Systems, you can watch live and recorded digital TV.

Surf the web
XHub is a full-fledged RSS news reader. You can browse and read article summaries, and open full articles in the built-in browser.

Use your cell phone as remote
XHub can be controlled with your Bluetooth-equipped cell phone or PDA. If you use the plug-in remote for Salling Clicker, you don't even need to stay in sight of your TV to control XHub - the browse menus appear right on your terminal's display. XHub ships with plug-ins for Salling Clicker and Romeo, and pre-configured HID files for more than 20 cell phones from Sony Ericsson.

VIDEO_TS support
Rent a movie today, watch it tomorrow. XHub supports playback of locally stored DVDs.

Enjoy your favorite song - today...
XHub reads data from your music library much faster than other media center applications. It will gather up all of your artists, albums, songs, genres or composers in just a blink.

Fetch artwork
With XHub, fetching missing album artwork from the Internet is easy as pie. Just press the button.

Special actions
By giving the Menu button on your remote a long press, you can trigger different actions depending on what you are currently doing. Best of all - YOU decide what action to trigger.

Speech assistance
XHub has optional speech assistance. When enabled, browse menu items are read out loud, by Victoria, Fred, Junior or whatever voice you prefer.

Fully customizable
Don't have EyeTV? Don't care for album artwork? Want to prevent system sleep or not? Prefer green to blue? It's up to you. XHub is fully customizable.

...and more
Read on to discover more great features.