<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Brian J. Murrell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 12-01-10 04:52 PM, Matt Emmott wrote:<br>
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> Nice to see that they're making it touchscreen-compatible. I built an HTPC<br>
> a couple years ago with a Dell all-in-one touchscreen system and it worked<br>
> fairly well, but not having a "back" on-screen button in Myth or XBMC made<br>
> it a little cumbersome.<br>
<br>
</div>A touchscreen television? Didn't the concept of having to go to the<br>
television to select something go away with the remote control?<br>
<br>
How does a remote control map to a touch interface? The best I can<br>
think of would be a Wii type interface were the remote moves a finger<br>
around the screen touching things. Very cumbersome.<br>
<br>
Another place where they are trying to ram a "touchscreen" interface in<br>
where it doesn't belong -- just like they are doing with on traditional<br>
keyboard-and-mouse platforms.<br>
<br>
Unity is horrible on a computer with a mouse and keyboard.<br></blockquote><div><br>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 home, tap a couple things, play media. It had apps like XBMC and MythTV for media, and I used Chrome to app-i-size some websites like Pandora and Napster. Worked pretty well overall. <br>
<br>I sold the box last year when I needed the money and haven't gotten around to building a new one. I threw up a couple pics at <a href="http://imgur.com/a/x3lye">http://imgur.com/a/x3lye</a><br></div></div>