[mythtv-users] Some notes on Google TV

[Brad Templeton]

On 11/16/2010 05:20 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
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> On 14 November 2010 22:51, Richard Morton <richard.e.morton at gmail.com 
> <mailto:richard.e.morton at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     thanks for the small write up.
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>     The only thing I have seen about GoogleTV that beats Myth is the
>     integrated search across content.
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>     combining MythVideo, MythNetVision and recordings into a single screen
>     of "whats available to watch".
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>     With regard to the arrow keys/keyboard comparison... thats purely up
>     to the implementor with MythTV... Afterall you can always turn off the
>     onscreen keyboard and use a remote/radio/ir keyboard such as the tiny
>     lenovo / logitch ones.
>
>     thanks for the info though
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>     R
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> Sounds pretty much what I suggested 5 months ago
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> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/439478
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> Cheers,
>
> Anthony

I am sure myth would have had a universal search some time ago if not 
for the fact that a lot of Myth is coded to work for people who just 
have a remote control and not a keyboard.    It was not so long ago that 
there was even a bug when you wanted to do a search and type in strings 
that pressing digits would act like a remote control and cycle through 
the letters.

My general view was that this wasn't too bad because there was mythweb, 
and mythweb in my view should be the primary (and only) interface to 
most of the complex aspects of MythTV, including most configuration, 
priority adjustment and so on.  Search within MythTV was painful enough 
that I always went to mythweb (in a browser window on the frontend box 
frequently) and so that was the right place for that.

Google TV search has upped the bar a bit, though, with its suggestions 
as you type and having a single button that calls up search in the OSD 
even while you are watching a program.
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