Hi all, While we all love tinkering with freevo, as hackers do, and we love the excitement of getting some cool feature that Dischi or others have written, isn't it time that we all seriously looked at the commercial potential of FreeVo?
Let me draw your attention to this article; http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS6031471658.html It seems microsoft is really pushing the media centre PC product into our homes, now as a avid hater of all things evil and redmond I personally would never stoop so low as to use such a device, however making these systems this accessible is something that microsoft seriously has over the freevo project. Freevo 2.0 is going to give us a whole new system to tinker with, now this could just be an opportune time to say "well, what do we need to make freevo a commercially viable product?" Imagine if freevo had features like, a configuration front end and time shifting? How about refinements to things like the encoding server so we get a progress display. There are many other features which would be 'cool' for freevo, I remember hearing some noise on the list about multiple tuner scheduling in fv2.0. How about iconbar information regarding TV-Schedules (Now/Next) cycling through while you're deciding what to watch, Recording server activity or a freevo 'dashboard' style experience instead of an iconbar, (as per apple's tiger dashboard), allowing you to show/hide the dashboard when a movie is playing for things like email and alike. And of course, a miniview is a must have so you can still watch you're entertainment as you're using the interface. These are only some ideas but it would be nice for freevo to be adopted by a company like apple for use with their hardware (imagine a mac mini freevo). Devices like microsofts media centre extender are easy for us to do because Linux is there in all its glory. Set top boxes are the future of PVR's, and we're already ahead of the game. Any comments welcome Regards Karl, ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
