My Movies has long been one of the favourite applications of Windows Media Center users, development started back in the Windows XP days and has grown from being a Media Center only to a whole system of apps for iPad, iPhone and Android.

Today sees the pre-release of version 4.0 of My Movies, the new version brings extended TV Services support to My Movies. Users with more than 2,500 points will have access to the pre-release and there will be full review of My Movies 4.0 here on TDL soon.

My Movies will add a full structure of the TV series, including both seasons and episodes in your collection, and all known season and episodes in the server, even when they are not in your collection. For episodes and seasons not in your collection, only the structure marker will be downloaded – no data will be downloaded for the episodes and seasons, and these will also not be featured in the Windows Media Center interface. You can at any time click on an episode to download data for it – even if it is not in your collection, you can then select a file for the TV episode manually.
The reason that not only download episodes and seasons in your collection is to give you a good overview of the full tv series, and giving you the option to later on handle data on episodes you do not have in your collection.
The tv series, seasons and episodes are given different icons in the Collection Management tree structure, depending on the status of the element. It is recommended that you become familiar with the icons below:
Image – TV Series
Image – TV Episode that is not linked to the online service (local). This TV Serie is added during import if your collection contains a TV Serie that is not known by the service.
Image – TV Season
Image – TV Season that is not linked to the online service (local). This TV Season is added during import if your collection contains a TV Season that is not known by the service.
Image – TV Season where data is not downloaded. This TV Season will not be visible in Windows Media Center.
Image – TV Episode
Image – TV Episode where data is not downloaded. This TV Episode will not be visible in Windows Media Center.
Image – TV Episode where the link to a playback file is missing. This TV Episode will be visible in Windows Media Center, but not playable.
Image – TV Episode that is not linked to the online service (local). This TV Episode is added during import if your collection contains an episode that is not known by the service.

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