MyPCTV - Day 3 of The Trial

MyPCTV continues to take the world by storm...well, this family anyway

(For the uninitiated, MyPCTV is my laptop PC hooked up to my TV and playing YouTube videos and music stations...a hugely expensive piece of technology that has consumed about £30 so far in new gear. We have 4 PC's around the house so configured, hanging off about 3 Mb of broadband dsl, one connects to a flat screen TV that takes VGA)

Extensive audience research (ie me and the kids) shows that:

(i) If the content is relevant - and it is, because we choose it - we are not that bothered about picture quality.

(ii) If you hook the PC headphone output up to the Hi Fi that is very cool, the Audio from most stations is pretty good

(iii) A keyboard that you can operate from the sofa is also very cool - you can get PC remotes to control a PC, I saw them at IBC - but a wireless keyboard will do fine....and the keyboard allows you to use the TV like a PC as well.

(iv) What you start to want is some form of intelligent EPG for YouTube......the audio stations are already pretty good

Next step is to dig the 10 year old PC out the attic and fire it up as a Linux media server so I can get my laptop back....