[mythtv-users] Ubuntu TV

Richard Morton richard.e.morton at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 14:15:14 UTC 2012


Please excuse brevity and pistakes as this email was composed on an Android
smartphone.

Thanks and best regards
Richard Morton

On Jan 11, 2012 12:50 PM, "Ronald Frazier" <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Ryan Patterson <ryan.goat at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > But he did respond in a thread that is explicitly discussing "Ubuntu
> > TV", which is designed to run on. . . TV's.  Also very important, HTPC
> > means "Home Theater Personal Computer".  That implies that the visual
> > interface for the HTPC is a large theater like screen.  Maybe even a
> > TV that you usually sit ten+ feet away from.  The counter-top device
> > that sits in the kitchen that he later described is not a HTPC.
>
> Lets say in your house, you've got 3 pretty much identical computer.
> All 3 have the same processor, same memory, same graphics card. All 3
> have a digital TV capture card hooked up to your cable or antenna. The
> all run the exact same software, with a user interface that is
> designed around viewing and managing TV recordings and video files.
> One of these computers is in your living room hooked up to a 60" TV.
> One of them is in your bedroom hooked up to a 24" TV. And one of them
> is in your kitchen hooked up to a 24" touchscreen monitor. So which
> ones are considered HTPCs and which ones are not? All 3 are used for
> the same purpose.
>
> Sorry, but the term HTPC has expanded beyond what you think of.

Along time ago this strict definition was expanded like you day. How many
home theatres do you have in a mansion? 1? By inference of multiple front
ends myth tv is designed to be used in other rooms...

Touch interface for a kitchenis a great and many other htpc systems support
touch.

If
> it's a general purpose computer that is configured around the idea of
> media playback being its primary purpose, that's pretty much an HTPC.
>
> --
> Ron Frazier
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