I have also built a custom media center and have been using Beyond TV for almost 2 years now. (Works well on both XP and Win7 pro) It is unfortunately a windows program, however it is compatible with a number of video formats. By boss has also used this from a laptop with a USB capture card with little issue. He;s since switch to a desktop to get better performace and more tuners however. I do not use this feature myself, however there are ways to use this program with a set top box as well, such as those for digital cable. There is also no subscription fees for the program guide (Where I am located at least) an there is quite a long free trial available I have used an asus main board with the onboard video that has a built in HDMI port to connect the PC to my receiver. Onboard video is not always the best, but this particular board displays on my 1080p LCD just fine. My largest complaint about beyond is that is does not have built in DVD playback so I have to use some other video player (usually media player) and I personally use iTunes for all my music anyhow. Ed

Yea it seams simple enough just to watch the sun. However math behind the mayan caledar uses similar math to what we use now. Even the julian caladar had 12 months. It did not correctly account for leap years, the Gegorian calandar corrects this. There have been recent updates into how we calculate dates, but the base of todays calendars have been around for hundreds of years. Edward

*sigh* I was wondering where this ended up. I was trying to reply to that, and I though i had sorry. :( Edward

I know that this date is, at the least also, from the Mayan calendar. They believed that when ever one of their calendar(s) 'started over' that the world would end. They had 3 calendars each surprising accurate to today. However because of Gregorian time, there is at least an 11 day time span where it might happen. On another note the smallest calendar repeats almost every year, so yea lol. I believe, but I’m not 100% sure, that the range of Dec 21 2012 to Dec 23 2012 is the predicted Gregorian time. I did some research on Mayan calendars, but oddly enough now that I need it I can not find it. Edward