It is almost impossible to evaluate this product with a 5 mnute demo session limitation. What kind of bonehead came up with this idea?

Considering this is basically alpha quality at best, it is nuts that they ask for money up front without a decent trial period. I do appreciate the work and think the team developing this should be paid for their hard work, but they make it hard to invest in their work with this super limitation.

The time limit is especially a problem because I am experiencing a few problems getting it working, and I can't even trouble shoot properly because I have to constantly restart the program within its 5 minute boundary.

MediaCentral has a lot of potential and I hope to see it become more reliable and hopefully a bit faster. But that's to be expected of an Alpha or Beta release. The 5 minute evaluation period however should not be expected and because of that I would not recommend this to anyone, and cannot give it the 3 starts it probably would get if I could test it.