So I was thinking today about what the future of home theater PC’s and where mmsv2 (or actually the next big version) fits into this.
I’ve come to the conclusion that what is really missing currently is integration. Your HTPC just stores the media and doesn’t really interface with the rest of the world. You don’t want to use your remote control to tag and organize your image collection. You want your HTPC for presentation, sort of like when you do a presentation. It should be slightly more advanced but not much. Instead the advanced jobs should be done on a regular PC and the synced with the HTPC.
This brings up the next question. How do we get there? I think firstly the interface should be designed with this in mind and then for the most used application, such as F-spot, a plugin could be written in that app to synchronize with mms.