Re: Re: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 - UK Launch

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Mark McCall" <lists@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:31 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 - UK Launch


>
> > Who said anything about turning on the telly?
>
> You did!   "Ideally you wouldn't require a TV for choosing
MP3s"
>

No, I said I didn't want to require a TV in the first place.  Without the
TV, turning it on is an irrelvance.


> > I'm talking about choosing
> > from vast numbers of MP3s - ie music not movies.
>
> So am I.
>

OK, so...

> > There are rooms in the house (e.g bathroom, master bedroom) where
control
> > of music is required but a TV is undesirable.
>
> Of course (although I have a TV in master bedroom and en-suite).  But
I'm
> not talking about those rooms.
>

Well I was - I want one solution I can use anywhere in the house.  Not a
unique system in each room.


> > Turning on a lightswitch isn't that much of a chore either, but
there
are
> > people willing to spend quite large sums of money to do it.
>
> Yes, to do it remotely and not by walking up to the switch, just as
you
turn
> on your telly with a remote control,
>

Once you've walked across the room to pick it up ;-)