On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Roshan George wrote: > >> By the way, I'm thinking of running XBMC because it looks way better. >> The output will be an ancient CRT TV for now, but my brother can >> probably work things out once I have everything set up so that if they >> buy a newer LCD TV, things will be fine. Any opinions on that are >> welcome as well. I have little experience with this, but hopefully >> things will go smoothly. > > As an alternate, I would suggest dispense away with all this research > of what works and does not. > > I use an USB wireless keyboard/mouse combo. I get to control XBMC > and also use the same as a PC to browse the net, read email etc. when > I am in the mood to be a couch potato :) OK it is less glamorous > than an IR remote control but it meets my functional requirements.
I'm also intending to build a HTPC using the Raspberry Pi which has XBMC ported on it. I was planning to use a wireless keyboard cum trackball device with its own dongle from Logitech that costs approx 2K. Advantage I saw was - no drivers needed. Was important as I had little control on the XBMC distro. -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
