RE: Finally a HiDef Replacement for XBMC?

["Richard" <rich_lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That's fine that they have linux etc internally. I just don't want to
see
any sign of it anywhere in the user interface. The quick play I have had
with a mac shows that it should be more possible to hide that it's a PC
then
a windows machine with all the stupid bios screens etc, but I still cant
count on it not to throw up some dialog box sometime that will then need a
mouse or keyboard to dismiss.



XBMC on an xbox as the dash I can give to my mother confident that
powercycling will fix any problems that happen, same cannot be said for any
PC or Mac running software.



From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Mal Lansell
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 9:10 PM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Finally a HiDef Replacement for XBMC?



There's always going to be an OS of some kind - the hardware has just
gotten too complicated to start from scratch every time and write all
the necessary device drivers - especially when that job has been done
already for an OS

In any case, a lot of "appliances" these days have standard PC
hardware
inside. Buy a DVD recorder for example, and it will most likely be
running a form of Linux.

As for porting xbmc, a Windows version would be simple - the XDK and
DirectX are very similar (in fact, didn't xbmc start out as a Windows
project?) Porting to other OSs would be more work, but perfectly possible.

Mal





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