Hi
I'm the author of that article. Thanks for the kind words.
As I hopefully say in the article, my only real concern on 10 Foot is with the problem I have with Theater View with Image Retention on my Plasma. If the menu text faded out during playback I would be happy to use it.
I do as I say currently prefer the Windows Media Center(WMC) 10 foot aesthetics but that may be familiarity and I suspect I could get over that with some judicious skinning. Although I would miss the WMC MyMovies interface (the new changes to MyMovies that allow sidecar xml generation do help though)
Most of our readers are WMC users so hopefully this article will ease them in to trying MC and seeing just how good it is.
Garry