Last time looked LinuxMCE was based on MythTV. That particular setup
in the video was using some really oddball but cool hardware using the
x10 protocol stuff for home automation. Nice piece of advertising and
Linux propaganda though.

Evan

On 3/22/07, John Molohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> > John Molohan wrote:
> >
> >> Just came across this. Seems to be based on Pluto home.
> >>
> >> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4422887272477313460
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I especially enjoyed the 5 minutes of black screen at the end of the video.
> >
> Yeah not sure what's going on there?
> > There are some interesting ideas there, some stuff we can steal for
> > sure.  I disagree with a lot of the UI choices, and a lot of the video
> > felt like propaganda.  The idea of the remote sounds cool, but in
> > practice I find it dubious.  We all know that soft buttons are like, and
> > LinuxMCE's UI takes that even one step further.
> >
> The voice over is certainly painful to listen to but I've been meaning
> to try plutohome for a while so I'll probably give it (and Ubuntu) a go.
> >
> > But overall it looks pretty cool
> Not bad alright.
> > and definitely worthy of some inspiration.
> Exactly :)
>
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