Quote Originally Posted by TREESofRIGHTEOUSNESS View Post
cool... here are some other options if you are interested

Ubuntu XMBC distro
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu

(add a lightdm "session")
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116726

Hope all goes well
great. yeah some nice ideas.. I've seen a vid of the light show.. v flash, although , I presume really only useful for action movies..

Think I'm looking at setting myself up with Ubuntu on USB stick, seems the simplest.
thanks a lot