XBMC Pros/Cons

Here is a pretty simplistic list of the pros and cons for XBMC. There are lots of pros, so I will keep it very simple. The cons are pretty damn specific and I will try to keep this listed updated as I find more nit picky things.

Pros

• TV Show Parsing
  I download shows via uTorrent and the RSS Downloader. The file names are not as my OCD would like them, so the fact that they automatically get parsed and pushed into the Library database is amazing to me.
• Movie Info Parsing
  Same thing with movies. The parsing is great because it is automated and it allows me to see info about the movie. When just looking at the name of a file, you sometimes forget what the hell the movie was about!
• Mark as Watched/Unwatched
  I love this for a million reasons, both with TV and Movies. There is a problem when two people share the system which I have listed in the Cons.
• Recently Added
  I love that there is a quick link that will show all of the recently added Movies or TV Shows. If you've been away for a while, it really helps.

Cons:

• The Daily Show
  Cannot parse TV Show names that are done by date, like The Daily Show. I know that this is being worked on right now and might even be in a nightly build, but I am not quite to the point of testing with non-stable releases yet.
• HD TV Shows
  Does not have any visual way for the user to tell between HD and non HD TV Shows. With a new skin (like AEON) this might be working already, but again, I am not working with nightly builds just yet.
• Shared backend
  Cannot officially share a database. I have hacked something together that works, but I cannot have more then one system running at the same time which will be a problem at some point. Not sure if this will ever happen.
• Mark as Watched/Unwatched without Profiles
  I know the theory behind Profiles and that it will allow different people to mark media differently, but it just does not work as seemlessly as I would like. Ideally, you could mark a movie or TV show as watched as a specific user without having to logout and back in.
• XBMC Remote for iPod Touch
  I love this remote. The only problem I am finding is that if I start a show or movie using it, stop it, then move to another location to start watching again, it does not remember where I was.
• Library does not Auto Update
  It seems to me that you have to manually run "Update Library" or restart the XBMC software to perform a update (as opposed to having an update run periodically or when it detects new files). This is not ideal and there seem to be some hacked together solutions (like xbUpdate), but it not perfect by any means.