On 3/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
A little over-enthusiastic on the presentation. All that working "out<br>of the box" is a little misleading I think, especially since there is<br>no "box".<br><br>Not that such a system can't be built, and I have no doubt that for
<br>some folks it's a better solution than Windows-based systems, but<br>raising expectations *that* high is bound to lead to disappointment<br>for some, and probably a*lot* more traffic here :-)</blockquote><div><br>
It is very impressive although I could also have done without the snide presentation. I like one of the comments on the page "out of the box my ass". My sentiments exactly.<br><br>Don't get me wrong, its damn impressive (and its got me wondering how they did all that!) but I simply cannot imagine this works out of the box. Not after all the effort I put into building my MythTV system and tuning it with only half the functionality (
i.e. doesn't turn my TV on, change the inputs turn the receiver on, dim the lights, etc).<br><br>How can you not be turned off by the guy whining "oh no, I have to turn my TV and receiver on". I just don't like the tone. If he had said "one neat thing is that it knows to turn my TV and receiver on" would have been a much better tone to set in my opinion.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Brian Wood<br><a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a></blockquote><div>
<br>--<br>Mike<br><br></div></div>