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

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:28 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 - UK Launch


>
> From: Mal Lansell [mailto:mlansell@xxxxxxx]
> > I know it seems a bit daft to control something that has a TV
menu with
a
> > PDA instead, but the MediaMVP menus are sooooo slow that alsmost
anything
> > else would be preferable!
>
> Well, sending IR via the PDA/server to the MVP would be just as slow. 
In
fact, it'd be slower, and probably less reliable.  You'd need to
investigate
another control method to speed it up.  I wonder if (seeing as it runs
Linux), you could ssh to it and run commands natively, or perhaps
XPL-enable
the device?  Who knows - it's beyond me.

It's being xPL-enabled at the moment...


>
> > It's all sort of hanging together at the moment - I really need
to
polish
> > the look so that SWMBO is happier about all the money that gets
spent on
> > gadgetry!
>
> /me points to Tivo
>
> Cheers,
> Andy

We hardly watch any TV at all now (apart from the news) - it's all DVD
movies now.  I think we've unwittingly turned into our parents
("there's
nerver anything on")

Mal