[mythtv-users] Ubuntu TV

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Thu Jan 12 18:03:50 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:06:50AM -0500, Matt Emmott wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:54 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 02:08:31PM -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> > > On 1/11/2012 13:37, jedi wrote:
> > > >>> Another place where they are trying to ram a "touchscreen" interface
> > in
> > > >>> where it doesn't belong -- just like they are doing with on
> > traditional
> > > >>> keyboard-and-mouse platforms.
> > > >>>
> > > >> You're being one-dimensional with what MythTV and its ilk can do. My
> > > >> project wasn't meant to be a TV, it was a media hub for the kitchen.
> > Get
> > > >      Point your remote in the general direction of the living room or
> > > > family room and click away. No need for another box in the kitchen in
> > > > a remotely modern house.
> > >
> > > Perhaps someone is watching something different in the family room.
> >
> >      Then another "media hub" in the immediate area is a bad idea.
> >
> >     If that's not a problem, just have the same kind of setup in the
> > kitchen that you would in the family room.
> >
> >     Things in the kitchen don't tend to mix well with electronics.
> > Better to not be grabbing the expensive electronics with who knows
> > what on your hands. Ruin that cheap remote if you're going to ruin
> > anything.
> >
> >      Input devices that aren't "built in" are handy that way.
> >
> > I used to have my iPad mounted to my refrigerator door. Yes, I'm insane.
> But all I want is instant access to all my favorite movies, music and tv
> shows, and I want the source to be behind an abstraction layer so that I
> don't have to know what the source is. A media solution where the end user
> could just click on South Park, choose an episode, and start watching it in
> any room at any time would be the killer app.

    It's already there. You're just refusing to use the input methods that
are already available and perfectly usable.


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