Front Row

[stockcerts]

I'm still a fairly new Mac user and I'm trying to better understand the value of Front Row. I know it's popular, but some examples of when you use it, or how you use it would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[BlackMax]

I use Front Row to watch DVDs all the time.

Apple has a high level overview here: http://www.apple.com/imac/software/frontrow.html

Unlike Front Row in Tiger, Leopard now features additional TV Shows, Music, Podcasts, Settings, and Sources menus which can be accessed in the menu screen, in addition to Movies, Photos, Music, and DVD. The new Front Row resembles the Apple TV's graphical interface, featuring dynamic 3D Cover Flow-like shuffling of Album Arts and Photos on the left of the screen while scrolling through the menu. Also, whereas the original Front Row was accessible only via the remote or the keyboard shortcut, the Leopard version includes a launcher application.

 

[BlakTornado]

I use it to watch DVDs. DVD Player isn't as simple and doesn't work amazingly well with the Apple Remote, from how I've experienced it, so I use Front Row to do that.

Apart from that, I don't really use it... but I can see uses for it one day... just not in my current set-up.

I think it would be good if Apple allowed [more] 3rd party plug-ins for it, however. A BBC iPlayer plug-in would be nice, and stuff like that.