<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:54 PM, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 02:08:31PM -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:<br>
> On 1/11/2012 13:37, jedi wrote:<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>
> >> You're being one-dimensional with what MythTV and its ilk can do. My<br>
> >> project wasn't meant to be a TV, it was a media hub for the kitchen. Get<br>
> > Point your remote in the general direction of the living room or<br>
> > family room and click away. No need for another box in the kitchen in<br>
> > a remotely modern house.<br>
><br>
> Perhaps someone is watching something different in the family room.<br>
<br>
</div> Then another "media hub" in the immediate area is a bad idea.<br>
<br>
If that's not a problem, just have the same kind of setup in the<br>
kitchen that you would in the family room.<br>
<br>
Things in the kitchen don't tend to mix well with electronics.<br>
Better to not be grabbing the expensive electronics with who knows<br>
what on your hands. Ruin that cheap remote if you're going to ruin<br>
anything.<br>
<br>
Input devices that aren't "built in" are handy that way.<br><br></blockquote><div>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.<br>
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