Hey guys, it’s coming up to Christmas, how about some cool Star Wars prints?  We have managed to get some 10% discount codes for you and the guys have also agreed to donate a further 10% to us for every purchase, so not only will you be getting a cool print, but you will be helping us out as well! https://www.etsy.com/listing/111356258/star-wars-inspired-original-trilogy In order to redeem your 10% discount you need to use GIVEMEFANART   Heres a word from them: The original Star Wars trilogy has been for years an inspiration around the world, growing today into an endless resource of inspiration. …
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We have talked to Passion-XBMC members a couple of times about working more closely together, and while those talks are still in early stages their community has been extremely supportive of us. This last month our friends at the french community Passion-XBMC set up a donation drive for us spearheaded by their member mikebzh44, and the end result was truly amazing, they managed to raise the biggest ever single donation of £458.65!  Which has catapulted us to 60% of our target. As many of you know, we are looking to raise £1440 by the beginning of January in order to pay for …
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INTRODUCTION We all love our media collection. It’s easy to forget that not too long ago, we had to get up from our confy chairs and actually change the CD from the disc tray. Nowadays, we can easily convert our albums to our favorite format, and enjoy an organized and astheticaly pleasing media library. We do it primarly for ourselves, but it’s always nice to impress friends, who have absolutly no knowledge of media centers. They’re eyes glow with amazement and you never felt so proud of your media library… until: “Hey! There’s something wrong with the CD!” As he …
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What is the Associated Fanart? Basically it’s an association of members that has formed to propose standards and ideas for fanart. The association will also help pay for hosting costs for the site out of membership dues and any other funds it receives, therefore all donations will go through the association, as the association takes dues yearly our hope is to be able to pay for the server yearly as well, that is why we have a goal set for paying next years hosting costs with an indicator of what we are short of. While not directly connected to fanart.tv, …
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Today we have added EIGHT new image types, the most we have ever added in one go before, and in an unprecedented move we have no images available for any of them! With thetvdb having issues with bandwidth (that should be resolved soon) we decided to add banner support here (both season and series) to hopefully help alleviate some of the stress, but as this is fanart.tv we decided to raise the bar a bit to prepare for future sized big screens…. We have kept the aspect ratio the same but changed the image size to 1000 x 185px and …
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Some of you guys have certainly read our blog article about the current lack of money for running the servers here: http://fanart.tv/2012/07/ideas-for-supporting-the-site-needed/ And so did mad-max, one of the team member of xbmcnerds.com! This is a small German community with around 3000 users which followed the call of mad-max to make a community donation for fanart.tv. They were running this event for 2 weeks and collected from every interested user in their community. At the beginning the expectations were not as high as the real donation. Collecting money for one month server hosting was the goal. The goal was exceeded …
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As some of you may or may not know, Kode runs a site called lockstockmods, though that was before this site took over his life.  Over two years ago, in a small section of the site he started hosting clearlogos for tv shows. That’s where it all started. Soon after the section started rolling and more and more images were hosted and the API became well used. It became obvious that it deserved it’s own domain. Fast forward to the present and that’s where fanart.tv is now. An artwork site dedicated to improve your media-center, by providing a range of …
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Have you ever come to this website just wishing there was a section for games?  Check out TheGamesDB.net.  We’ve got an open, online database for video games.  We have a simple, yet robust API, and we strive to have the highest quality images and metadata available for games.  We work closely with the fanart.tv staff, and share similar goals when it comes to quality content. Several highly used programs are already scraping with our API.  This includes Gamebrowser for MediaBrowser, and Advanced Launcher for XBMC.  You can find fanart, clearart, boxart, screenshots, banners, trailers, overviews, ratings, and much more!  All …
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The following stats have been compiled from 1st July 2012 – 31st July 2012 API Visits: 10,773,333 Unique Visitors: 373,748 Top 6 API users Artwork Downloader – Movies - 5,177,308 hits XBMC – Music - 2,985,478 hits Artwork Downloader – TV - 969,174 hits cdART Manager – Music - 749,068 hits meta<browser/> – Movies - 239,472 hits YAMJ – Movies - 212,844 Website Visits: 41,858 Unique Visitors: 25,870 Top 6 pages visited Home page – 18,392 Movie home page – 6,188 Site activity – 5,657 Music home page – 4,050 TV home page – 3,204 Maroon 5 Artist page – 1,499 Top 6 Visitor Locations United States – 9,420 United …
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So our very first competition has ended, and the winners have been drawn, congratulations to the winners! Metabrowser License winners Furby – California, USA Colin Woodward – New York, USA Jennifer Lynn – UK Pulse-eight NYXboard Remote winners Ángel Víctor Gámez Guinto – Mexico Daniel Schoonover – Orange, CA USA Þorkell Pétursson – Iceland Lee Pennington – Kent, UK Simon – Kent, UK Pulse-eight CEC adapter winners Thomas Kanara – Auckland, New Zealand Nick Kuras – IL, USA Alfie Davidson – Somerset, UK Jacquie Bennett – Sheffield, UK Joshua Welch - FL, USA If you aren’t one of the lucky winners …
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