I use it exclusively for my HTPC – Vista Ultimate Media Center + web browsing. I am not sure what connectivity issues Dave is talking about (I’ve had none), but touchpad is far from perfect on it.

It took me a few weeks to get used to it & browse confidently with my thumb and it’s still sometimes behaves funny. It could possibly be corrected by Logitech’s software, but I never bothered installing it

Having said all that, I’d still take DiNovo Mini over that in a heartbeat for an all-purpose HTPC. Navigator may be fine for media playback, but I’d find lack of a keyboard frustrating for browsing and managing the computer — I speak from experience as I originally tried to use only a wireless mouse for HTPC and that grew old very, very quickly, so I bought DiNovo Mini even though I still find it to be too expensive.

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Anonymous, yeah you can use the touchpad and buttons like a regular mouse.

Q-bert, GlideTV provides Windows software (Java) that essentially provides a 10′ interface to your web browser in aggregating top video sites and facilitating search. In addition to that virtual keyboard UI. It looks pretty nice and works fine as a launchpad, but is optional.

tony, I’ve never lived with it, but I’ve used it on a few occasions (including CES 2008 where it was introduced). For this post I was mainly thinking traditional remotes. Of course, this blows traditional out of the water in terms of form and us HTPC users do appreciate a QWERTY keyboard. So I’m happy Logitech provides one, although connectivity can be squirrely. But, because the touchpad is very small (and round) it probably requires more precision than the the larger, rectangular GlideTV. Additionally, like a typical laptop, with GlideTV touchpad you can scroll by dragging your finger along the edges which is appreciated. On the other hand, the Dinovo touchpad can also be used as a five way controller.