In all honesty i hope no one listens to any of these ideas!!!
I use mythtv now and if these ideas get put into practice i'm gonna cry myself to sleep everynight out of jealousy!!
on a more serious note. I absolutely love the tv layout and i think it would be a massive loss to media portal if these concepts were over looked.
The layout of the mytv screen looks genius and exactly what i would aim for if i was starting to redesign the gui.
The tabs at the top of the container offer the user access to all the features one would need whilst keeping the current screen clutter free and may i say exceptionally pretty
The way i have been critiquing the concepts is to look at the pictures first, (remember a picture tells a thousand words!!) and if i understand the design without needing to read the text then i believe that the functionality would be intuitive and straight forward to use.
Have a quick look a this video for a new approach to user interaction.
Linuxmce;
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...05109829&hl=en
rspray, your very talented and i appreciate your work even though i won't benefit from it!! keep up the good work
Regards,
Dubstar_04