I have a touchscreen as well in my case and it was the deciding factor to build an HTPC. I never could justify building a device that required the TV to be on to listen to music. Ebay has cheep cases 300 and under... touchscreen HTPC dominance is a near future reality. When looking for HTPC software I ended with mediaportal for a bunch of reasons, but I several times started looking again because of how impossible it is to navigate with a 7" touchscreen. I ended up squeaking through by modifying the basic home screen to have better placed and bigger icons. Using the tiny arrows in the music screen is enough to make my friends want to smash it though.
MediaPortal is awesome, but the sad reality is that I will scrap it in an instant for a touchscreen friendly front end with even half the functionality. I don't even use a TV tuner, so I don't care about the recording and playback engines for it. |