2010-09-04, 04:05
To me the most important thing here, and something I think we should all be happy about, is that a big media company is finally recognizing all the great work going on in the media center community and trying to give users what they want.
Maybe you're suspicious about LG's intentions, maybe you're skeptical about how open it will be, maybe you wish XBMC was getting a little more credit for having formed the foundation of this particular development, but despite all of that let's not overlook how exciting it is that we could finally have a platform built right into major-brand home theater devices that lets us use our media the way we want to. I'll wait patiently to see how it develops, and I too have some skepticism about how well it will turn out, but this is an encouraging first step.
I've been using XBMC since 2005, and I've bounced back and forth between Plex/XBMC over the last couple years as the two have moved along at different speeds. I've always wondered why some device manufacturer wasn't taking advantage of all this great work, and someone finally is. Boxee of course is doing something similar, but that was from the ground up, and they've had their own struggles being outsiders from the mainstream home theater industry. I think this is great news and we should give it time to see how it works out before getting worked up about it.
Maybe you're suspicious about LG's intentions, maybe you're skeptical about how open it will be, maybe you wish XBMC was getting a little more credit for having formed the foundation of this particular development, but despite all of that let's not overlook how exciting it is that we could finally have a platform built right into major-brand home theater devices that lets us use our media the way we want to. I'll wait patiently to see how it develops, and I too have some skepticism about how well it will turn out, but this is an encouraging first step.
I've been using XBMC since 2005, and I've bounced back and forth between Plex/XBMC over the last couple years as the two have moved along at different speeds. I've always wondered why some device manufacturer wasn't taking advantage of all this great work, and someone finally is. Boxee of course is doing something similar, but that was from the ground up, and they've had their own struggles being outsiders from the mainstream home theater industry. I think this is great news and we should give it time to see how it works out before getting worked up about it.
