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<blockquote data-quote="hafblade" data-source="post: 971919" data-attributes="member: 110423"><p>I'm sure that in the future there is large development in the direction of tv integrations.</p><p>Look at the new Steam Big Picture Mode. It is such a cool feature where you have your whole Steam as a TV GUI version controllable by remote or gamepad. Then there is Windows 8 Modern UI which is usable with the remote (and the gamepad with tools like JoyToKey). Ok there are many apps not working with the remote at the moment but perhaps many developers will change it when the global direction changes to TV environments. A developer which only creates touch gui control features is an idiot because the idea is to use Windows 8 on the desktop, laptop, tablet and on the tv and and and...</p><p> </p><p>With a little bit of luck the future will be cross plattform which is a really good change. Even as total enemy of gamepad control in computer games in the past, I see that it is becoming better and better on the pc with platforms like steam which have a large influence on the market and which bring changes (especially cross platform ones) to the whole market. Same is with Microsoft and Windows 8. There are so many people complaining about the modern ui without even having used it in every days use. It isn't as bad as everybody says. </p><p> </p><p>Due to this I also thought about the idea of having some MediaPortal Apps which are split up and setup as different apps. I don't think that this idea is silly. Yes you have much work coming to this point and yes it excludes Windows XP / Vista / 7 users but it gives you so many possibilities because you don't have to implement so many plugins. When sites like Netflix, YouTube, ... give you great apps which are controllable by remote why should someone implement some own plugin which works around webservices and these apps by parsing html sites or something like this.</p><p> </p><p>Install the app and go is much better / easier than implementing some functionalitites into every single mediacenter like application in the world.</p><p> </p><p>I love MP and I will use it in the future but we all should think about the future and perhaps some ideas could be brought to MP2.</p><p>At least the development should know that there are people which would love such integrations. Perhaps it would be enough to keep MP2 so modular (which it is I suppose) that small parts could be used for ModernUI implementations in some later versions.</p><p> </p><p>I would love to have some TV app, some Movie database app, some music app, some series app, some OnlineVideos app, ....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hafblade, post: 971919, member: 110423"] I'm sure that in the future there is large development in the direction of tv integrations. Look at the new Steam Big Picture Mode. It is such a cool feature where you have your whole Steam as a TV GUI version controllable by remote or gamepad. Then there is Windows 8 Modern UI which is usable with the remote (and the gamepad with tools like JoyToKey). Ok there are many apps not working with the remote at the moment but perhaps many developers will change it when the global direction changes to TV environments. A developer which only creates touch gui control features is an idiot because the idea is to use Windows 8 on the desktop, laptop, tablet and on the tv and and and... With a little bit of luck the future will be cross plattform which is a really good change. Even as total enemy of gamepad control in computer games in the past, I see that it is becoming better and better on the pc with platforms like steam which have a large influence on the market and which bring changes (especially cross platform ones) to the whole market. Same is with Microsoft and Windows 8. There are so many people complaining about the modern ui without even having used it in every days use. It isn't as bad as everybody says. Due to this I also thought about the idea of having some MediaPortal Apps which are split up and setup as different apps. I don't think that this idea is silly. Yes you have much work coming to this point and yes it excludes Windows XP / Vista / 7 users but it gives you so many possibilities because you don't have to implement so many plugins. When sites like Netflix, YouTube, ... give you great apps which are controllable by remote why should someone implement some own plugin which works around webservices and these apps by parsing html sites or something like this. Install the app and go is much better / easier than implementing some functionalitites into every single mediacenter like application in the world. I love MP and I will use it in the future but we all should think about the future and perhaps some ideas could be brought to MP2. At least the development should know that there are people which would love such integrations. Perhaps it would be enough to keep MP2 so modular (which it is I suppose) that small parts could be used for ModernUI implementations in some later versions. I would love to have some TV app, some Movie database app, some music app, some series app, some OnlineVideos app, .... [/QUOTE]
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