MTH's system updates for free in your home. So you can stay up to date with the latest features. The system sells $$ for less as a whole than others do. It has features built in that other systems don't have and some can't even do. No separate programmers needed.
There are many positives to the system that guided my decision years ago. I stand by it still. When another system impresses me enough to leave, I will. Nothing has yet. DCC lags behind though many users will brag over one or two features that are advanced. I look at everything, not just the latest feature. I did not find Digitrax hard to use. I liked it a lot. I disliked how long it took to develop decoders with sounds capable of good power handling for the larger scales. I think that Loksound had the best. I just couldn't get it to work with my G scale back then.
There was a rush just a few years back to go with another company in G scale offering better sounds ( supposedly). The boards fault was it couldn't handle the power. You had to provide on board cooling fan for operation. For some battery guys, that was no good. For me, it pointed to poor engineering. You can't have excess heat handled that way. I didn't even like the sounds. It didn't sound real, and I could identify it with my eyes closed.
I'm sure someday soon battery will get together with wireless control and be what it can be. Until some big players get involved, I don't think it's there yet. I don't understand why when it' already in so many other things.
When you pick a system, you have to deal with it's faults. Every system I've seen, has them. So pick your poison. The simple fact that so many users use different brands must tell us something.
