<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 1/10/12, Matt Emmott <i><memmott@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Matt Emmott <memmott@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Ubuntu TV<br>To: "Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br>Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 3:39 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1964860920"><br><br><div class="yiv1964860920gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Brian J. Murrell <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=brian@interlinx.bc.ca">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv1964860920gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On 12-01-10 05:16 PM, Matt Emmott wrote:<br>
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> You're being one-dimensional<br>
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I don't think I am.<br>
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> My<br>
> project wasn't meant to be a TV,<br>
<br>
</div>Ahhh. So don't call it a TV then. Canonical are calling their project<br>
"Ubuntu TV". To me, at least, that means it's a TV.<br>
<div class="yiv1964860920im"><br>
> it was a media hub for the kitchen.<br>
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</div>A "media hub" != "TV", IMHO.<br>
<div class="yiv1964860920im"><br>
> Get<br>
> home, tap a couple things, play media.<br>
<br>
</div>But surely you don't do that (I mean walk up and touch the screen) on<br>
the 50" _TV_ you have mounted on the wall above your fireplace, right?<br>
I mean given that my point was entirely about the usability of a touch<br>
interface on a TV.<br>
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b</font></span></blockquote><div>You had responded to my comment that I was glad to see touchscreen support, because of my previous experience with an HTPC build I had done. So, that was the context of my reply. <br><br>
I don't think there are many touchscreen 50" HDTVs out there, so I hadn't even considered that scenario. That being said, I would love for my 60" TV to be touchscreen - I tend to have stuff running in the background no matter what I'm doing and it's a PITA to get home, sit on the couch, cycle through what I want, launch it, then get back up again. How awesome would it be to just walk by my TV, tap it a couple times, and have everything playing?<br>
<br>But, back to the context of my previous comment - I was happy for the touchscreen capability being there, not for my primary tv, but for my satellite viewers. I would love for the smaller HTPC boxes I have around the house (kitchen, garage, basement, office) to be fire-and-forget style, where I can just tap and go, as opposed to the immersion of the living room TV.<br>
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</div><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br><div class="plainMail">_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" href="/mc/compose?to=mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br>>> That being said, I would love for my 60" TV to be touchscreen<br><br>I'm pretty sure you wouldn't. Touchscreens need a layer of not-quite-visually-invisible sensor over the screen which degreades the picture quality greatly. As also does all the greasy fingermarks that we as humans can't help but leave on touchscreens.<br><br>As for the look of UbuntuTV... I think it looks horrible. I have over 1000 movies, I cant imagine working with a mediacenter that wastes so much screenspace on whitespace and redundant prettyness that it can only
display 6 titles at a time.<br><br>Ubuntu seem to have entirely lost the plot with GUI design. I've switched from Ubuntu to Mint just to get away from the unity insanity. <br>You know Ubntu have gone way too far when they clearly prioritise their idea of "visually pleasing" even over usability. they're basically ignoring the whole purpose and use of a GUI.<br><br> <br><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>