[mythtv-users] MythTV Frontend for Android released on Market

[tortise]

On 28/02/2012 4:04 p.m., Nick Rout wrote:

> But I just don't see the point in my case as it's only in the house I
> have sufficient bandwidth, and there I may as well watch the 55 or 32
> inch screens.

I agree with this sentiment, respecting different folks will see it 
differently, and the fun involved of getting a fully functioning 
frontend on the android devices, having tried various things I think an 
android is generally a better remote control than it is a player, not in 
technical terms, but in usability terms.

Nodding Drones?
I also note I don't want to get into being a nodding drone controlling 
the frontend, ever looking up and down (nodding) between the screen and 
the remote device to push the right button..!!  A device with all the 
information in the one place seems a good remote control to me, when one 
can just push the button one wants like an IR, without turning it on, 
sliding and whatever other steps are necessary to just get access to the 
actual keys I want to press....

Audio Android Frontends
I also think the smaller pocketable androids would be better for private 
audio of what is being played on the screen (via Bluetooth or cable), 
than as full players. WiFi Bandwidth is going to better preserved if 
only sending audio.

My farthings worth.