Asus hopes upcoming Eee desktops are Eeequally Eeenticing (ars technica) [LWN.net]

Asus hopes upcoming Eee desktops are Eeequally Eeenticing (ars technica)

Posted Jan 31, 2008 0:16 UTC (Thu) by rriggs (subscriber, #11598)
Parent article: Asus hopes upcoming Eee desktops are Eeequally Eeenticing (ars technica)

"...the whole 'use your TV as your web browser/computer' concept has never caught on well."

I have a suspicion that the "use your TV as a MythTV frontend" might appeal to a certain sector of the geek population.

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Asus hopes upcoming Eee desktops are Eeequally Eeenticing (ars technica)

Posted Jan 31, 2008 2:18 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

In the next Gnome release they are claiming that totem will have Mythtv support. Pretty cool
stuff there. 

Combined with the Mythtv web interface for selecting and recording stuff then it should be
interesting for those people that don't want to run the Mythtv stuff on they're desktop, but
have the Mythtv interface. 

Then on top of that there is the Linux-MCE stuff. VERY cool. Full house control.. lights, TV,
cable boxes, sends remote control software to bluetooth phones, fancy stereo control,
multi-room support... everything. Very fancy.

Asus hopes upcoming Eee desktops are Eeequally Eeenticing (ars technica)

Posted Jan 31, 2008 18:57 UTC (Thu) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link]

My MythTV front end is often used in my home as a browser. We enjoy looking up actors and shows, stuff like that.

IMHO, the real downside to this "all in one" tv/computer concept (and why I'll probably not get one) is that I upgrade my computer fairly often but I only upgrade my TV once a decade, at the most.