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To: mcmab who wrote (181976)	1/2/2006 4:38:49 PM
From: brushwud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Once you have a HD TV and wireless and a living room PC the opportunities are enormous. My wife moans about - and cannot drive - the 4 remotes on the coffee table. With a living room PC I can dump all those. Then there's everything else that is too complicated to be driven by buttons - sprinkler system; bedside alarm; oven and on and on. Could this be the end of the flashing 12:00AM on VCRs? My one-year-old DVD/VCR automatically gets the time from a local PBS station.

To: mcmab who wrote (181976)	1/3/2006 2:21:07 AM
From: Petz	Respond to of 275872

Gotta say I like and share your PC-centric vision and doubly second your dislike of those damn sprinkler controllers with those invisible LCD screens. Petz

To: mcmab who wrote (181976)	1/4/2006 11:57:51 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 275872

mcmab, In all I see my future as a living room PC - anything else is too inflexible. The only processors with the horsepower and the cool-running are AMD. I believe I am not alone in my conclusions and that hardware will shift to software in home entertainment. I now have something that's a lot more limited as an ambition (for the living room). My stereo died, and I want to maybe set up a jukebox, and load all of the CDs into, and maybe in the future, when the CableCard is available for PCs, to turn it into a PVR. But now, just a jukebox. I wand this thing to be PC based, so that I can put in a big HD and load stuff lossless. I probably want 2 mirrored, so that I don't ever have to load those things again. The problem I see is user interface. I want this thing to be not like a PC. I want a tiny screen. I have seen people modding some small Shuttle-like PCs where they put the LCD screen on front of this thing. Does anybody know if anybody sells anything like that already pre-built? Also, fiddling with the mouse may be OK for loading the stuff, but for playing, I would like something simple like a remote control. Maybe I should be looking into Media Center Windows... I would probably get like the cheapest Socket 939 processor for this, which should be more than enough for ripping music, and upgradable to DC, if I ever need it. Or maybe I will just wait until Socket M. I (and the kids) can certainly use some quiet time without the wife blasting music before the Socket M comes out ... Joe