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As has been said many times, a lot of people use the Checked box for watched/unwatched movies.

At present, when you create a new blank record, the checked box is automatically 'true' or checked. This implies the movie has already been watched, which doesn't make sense.

I realize other users may use the check box for other reasons, so my suggestion is that you allow an option in Tools/Preferences to determine if the checked box should be true or false on creating a new record.

This could also be done by adding the Checked field to the list of fields that can have default values assigned (under Movie Information, Edit Default Movie Values)

At present I find it awkward to have to uncheck a movie as soon as I add it and if I forget, then it does not appear correctly in MediaPortal.

I hope this is easy to add!

Actually even if it is not possible to do that change through the Preferences window, there is a way to do it by modifying the settings file:
Open prefs.xml with a text editor, search for the "DefaultMovie" node, and in it there should be a checked="True" item, that you can change.

Thanks, editing prefs.xml worked perfectly! Sorry, I should have thought of that!

Well I can't blame you for not thinking to that: that's not so usual to have such "hidden features"