[mythtv-users] LxMSuite.com to provide services to the Myth community

Donavan Stanley geckofiend at gmail.com
Thu May 5 21:41:14 UTC 2005


For the past several months I've been working with a company that's
preparing  a commercial offering using MythTV for the high-end
home-theater market.  They expressed their interest in  seeing Myth
grow beyond it's current hobbyist niche to that of a full consumer
level product.  Rather than simply take Myth and run with it they
decided to "do the right thing" and embrace the Myth community and
it's developers and work with us to move things forward.

These guys could have been like any number of companies that have and
have had commercial Myth offerings and just taken the source and shut
us out. They instead approached Isaac, myself and some others about
doing things right.  I'm very excited about what the future holds with
Technovera involved.

To that end, today they're taking the wraps off of "LxMSuite" a pilot
project to provide data services and community related services to the
Myth user base.  I'll let the website (http://www.lxmsuite.com) speak
for itself and simply add some info that's not available there.

Coming down the pipe in the near term from them are:

* The first of many new themes. James Meyer has been working closely
with some artists/UI designers hired by Technovera to produce the
first of many themes.  It's nearly complete and is *really* sharp, I'm
currently running it on my main machine and frankly it makes my own
themes look like a piles of dog crap. Some screenshots are:
http://www.lxmsuite.com/theme_preview/menu1.jpg (there's 6 of those,
just change the number)
http://www.lxmsuite.com/theme_preview/playbackbox_preview.jpg
http://www.lxmsuite.com/theme_preview/playbackbox_nopreview.jpg and
http://www.lxmsuite.com/theme_preview/video_manager.jpg.

* A community web portal offering entertainment news and reviews as
well as info of interested to home theater / HTPC users.

* A recommendation engine for Myth.


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