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<blockquote data-quote="FullMoon" data-source="post: 10786" data-attributes="member: 10445"><p>getting back to the features (and I know I've mentioned this before on other threads but here goes again)</p><p></p><p>It would be ideal if it is to be able to scroll through music, picture, video, tv databases, radio, recipe databases. These are the ones I use, mail and other may apply to others. I haven't found a contacts plugin (something that reads info from say outlook and displays it, that would give you calendar and addressbook, especially if someone integrated a dialer to call people through your tv set etc etc (either through modem or VOIP, but I digress here)</p><p></p><p>My main use would be to use a pocketPC over Wifi as a remote control for the program, and the main reason for having this send data to the pocket pc to view is so I can pick songs from my music database to play from MP into my stereo from any room in the house. I currently do this using Winamp and the Webamp plugin, also web based interface. The previous plugin work had issues with PocketPC's and prontos and the likes, and I thought you weren't going in that direction, but that would probably be the #1 use of this plugin.</p><p></p><p>To be honest, the other databases (except for tv maybe) really only benefit if streaming is involved. For example, If I am sending my MP output to a tv network throughout my house, then I can view movies, tv, videos, pictures etc on each tv and just use a wireless remote with extenders to control everything, the tv's give me output, I don't need output on the control device. For tv I could see how you use the output on the control device to view the program guide or schedule stuff while watching tv and be able to see the tv full screen, etc. With streaming or drive access, then I could send the output to my PDA or computer, and again for a computer it is not necessary because I could just install MP on that computer and access hard drives on the server computer to view videos or pictures, etc. THe main advantage again is for PDA's, or web access. The big exception is music which then you can do without a tv or monitor to view.</p><p></p><p>And then stuff like the recipe plugin, that would be great to be able to scroll through recipes on my PDA off of MP on a server and have it display them on my PDA. Or through bluetooth on a phone, etc.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, my two cents on the subject (inflation adjusted).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FullMoon, post: 10786, member: 10445"] getting back to the features (and I know I've mentioned this before on other threads but here goes again) It would be ideal if it is to be able to scroll through music, picture, video, tv databases, radio, recipe databases. These are the ones I use, mail and other may apply to others. I haven't found a contacts plugin (something that reads info from say outlook and displays it, that would give you calendar and addressbook, especially if someone integrated a dialer to call people through your tv set etc etc (either through modem or VOIP, but I digress here) My main use would be to use a pocketPC over Wifi as a remote control for the program, and the main reason for having this send data to the pocket pc to view is so I can pick songs from my music database to play from MP into my stereo from any room in the house. I currently do this using Winamp and the Webamp plugin, also web based interface. The previous plugin work had issues with PocketPC's and prontos and the likes, and I thought you weren't going in that direction, but that would probably be the #1 use of this plugin. To be honest, the other databases (except for tv maybe) really only benefit if streaming is involved. For example, If I am sending my MP output to a tv network throughout my house, then I can view movies, tv, videos, pictures etc on each tv and just use a wireless remote with extenders to control everything, the tv's give me output, I don't need output on the control device. For tv I could see how you use the output on the control device to view the program guide or schedule stuff while watching tv and be able to see the tv full screen, etc. With streaming or drive access, then I could send the output to my PDA or computer, and again for a computer it is not necessary because I could just install MP on that computer and access hard drives on the server computer to view videos or pictures, etc. THe main advantage again is for PDA's, or web access. The big exception is music which then you can do without a tv or monitor to view. And then stuff like the recipe plugin, that would be great to be able to scroll through recipes on my PDA off of MP on a server and have it display them on my PDA. Or through bluetooth on a phone, etc. Anyway, my two cents on the subject (inflation adjusted). [/QUOTE]
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