On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Scott Baker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott.baker@gmail.com">scott.baker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:11 PM, jason bright <<a href="mailto:jaybright@gmail.com">jaybright@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> For size, an AppleTV looks pretty tough to beat. But there are quite a few<br>
> cheapy uPNP compatible boxes floating around as well.<br>
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Am I missing something? Doesn't a box need a little more than just<br>
UPNP support to act as a mythfrontend?<br>
_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></div><br>No, not for some definitions of frontend. You can playback your videos and recordings over UPnP, which is good enough for some folks in some situations. However, you would be missing most of the other capabilities of a true frontend, e.g. commercial skip, scheduling, settings, etc.<br>