Do you know someone with a TV in their living room?

With the TVKeyboard, you'll begin a journey into the richest imaginable multi-media experience... it all starts by connecting a keyboard to the TV in your living room. From there, we can help you create a fully functional multi-media jukebox, that will serve as a hub for all of your family's favorite TV, Movies, Music, Photos, Video Games, and more. Every device you own (PC, Smartphone, Tablet, TV, DVD/Blu-ray player, Game Console, etc.) will be interconnected through an easy to use Home Network.

Prototype Review

The TVKeyboard works great - all my music, video, and pictures are available on my TV.  Watched a few movies from my collection.  Watched some stuff on netflix.  Watched some free cable shows.  May eliminate cable bill altogether.  I have the PC set up on the TV.  My kids can do their homework on the TV, love playing games.  Setting up old-school game emulator soon, may add x-box style controller to the mix.

No need to buy a remote if you have a smartphone - I have an app that allows me to use my phone as the remote.

A few hardware choices include:
  • Use your existing laptop.  Simply install the XMBC software on it, and you're good to go.
  • Use a nettop.  A nettop is a very small lightweight PC.  They can be found for roughly $200.
  • Build a small box.  Currently pricing individual components, looking forward to experimenting with some hardware..

There are some current advantages to using windows as the base OS, because there are a few features of XBMC not available on the linux version of XBMC.  It also greatly simplifies networking - if linux were the base, it might make networking a little more complex.
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