What name do you prefer...

[soccerdad]

Actually I think we are getting closer. I really like media substation. And it is available. It is a little long as a domain name, but it is good. mss.com,medias and mediass.com are taken. I also really like blueskymc.

[Fatman_do]

More possilbly useless sugestions that are open.

mepvr (pronoun sounding Media-Entertainment)
mipvr (pronoun sounding)
hmpvr (Home Media)
htpvr (HomeTheater)

[JonnyCam]

I like MeVR, (or Mee-VR, Me-VR)
because Subs product changes the way you watch content, broadcasting to times when it's convenient for me.

Oh - and it seems that 'mevr' means Mrs in dutch.
Appropriate consider the number of times the term WAF comes up on the board!

[7ore]

Blue Sky Media Centre

blueskymc.com

This I like. it is more a Media Center than a PVR so I think it is a good idea to change.
And this is a name that a new visitor actually may remember for later.

Else I think G³VR is a good suggestion.

[johnsonx42]

sigh.... I'm quickly coming to the conclusion this thread hasnt helped at all. Its just made things even cloudier. :confused:

All your fault of course once you allowed people to suggest alternative names, and further said they didn't even have to include 'PVR', the result was inevitable.

NextPVR isn't a bad name at all, and it has the advantage of being already in use... think about how much stuff will have to be changed, and how many times we'll have to explain to new users that all the forum posts talking about 'NPVR' and 'NextPVR' may also pertain to 'InsertNameHere'.

I don't really agree with the notion expressed in a lot of posts that the program is inadequately described as a PVR, and that we need to drop 'PVR' from the name. The program pretty much IS a PVR program; at it's core it does very little other than record and playback TV shows; surely 90% of it's code pertains to that function, and probably 90% of the users use it that way 90% of the time (90% of those percentages were 90% guesses, but probably pretty good guesses). Being able to play videos that weren't originally recorded by the program is a pretty obvious extension of PVR functionality, and the additional functions like Music and Photos, along with what plugins can add in the future really don't change the primary reason a user would install it. If a user wants media library functions without recording TV shows, there are probably better programs out there.

So my vote for the name ultimately comes back to "NextPVR" as the common name, "NPVR" for short, and "NextPVR Mediacenter" as the full, complete name (or Mediacentre if you must). It's a name with marketing potential too... it's the year 2010, and while we don't yet have rotating space stations, pan am passenger space shuttles, moon bases nor intelligent computers on spaceships that make routine trips to Jupiter, most people have had some form of PVR/DVR device already. "You've had a PVR, it worked ok... but it wasn't truly yours. Now it's time for your NextPVR." Ok, so I'm not a marketing genius, but you get the idea.

[liteswap]

I see what you're getting at, but I'm not sure that ease of support on the forum is a big enough justification for a name. Au contraire, you want to draw people in who aren't on the forum, to really grow the user base. I'm sure sub has his eye on the eventual commercialisation of the product, once it's mature enough - maybe a big software house will buy it.

So I think my suggestion (Media SubStation) offers everything: it sound big and powerful, it says what it does, and it's got sub in it. What more could you want?

[johnsonx42]

I see what you're getting at, but I'm not sure that ease of support on the forum is a big enough justification for a name.

You're taking a minor point and putting it center stage. My more general point was that we're already using the name, so if we're going to go through the trouble of changing it then the new name ought to be a lot better than what we started with; I think "NextPVR Mediacenter" is actually pretty good, and requires no changes.

So I think my suggestion (Media SubStation) offers everything: it sound big and powerful, it says what it does, and it's got sub in it. What more could you want?

Among the alternatives suggested so far, that one is probably best. I'm not sure if I like it better than NextPVR Mediacenter though.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion of course, but I'm actually rather surprised G3-PVR is ahead in the voting. I suppose I'll have to consider the possibility that not everyone thinks the same way I do, a point my wife has been trying to make to me for years

[McBainUK]

Each time I come back to this thread I want to vote for a different name!

Blue Sky Media Centre blueskymc.com

I like this because it's easy to remember, meaningful but meaningless and uses the Media Centre phrase so people already know what it does because of Windows Media Centre.

Also, the default skin is Blue and it wouldn't take much to make the default background sky-like

[stustunz]

quak- pvr it will rock you

[stustunz]

crap not edit lol
It was meant to be quake-pvr